Remote First Company Culture with Marleen Kappert & Sebastiaan Bekker

<p>Connect with Marleen Kappert:</p> <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/marleenkappert" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://www.linkedin.com/in/marleenkappert</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>Connect with Sebastiaan Bekker:</p> <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastiaanbekker" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastiaanbekker</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>Full episode on YouTube ▶️</p> <p><a href="https://youtu.be/CwiDLWboAvs" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://youtu.be/CwiDLWboAvs</a></p> <p>New episodes every Wednesday with our host <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-akil">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙Patrick Akil⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a>!  </p> <p>Big shoutout to <a href="https://xebia.com/">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Xebia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a> for sponsoring this episode!</p> <p><br></p> <p>OUTLINE<br>00:00:00 - Intro<br>00:00:28 - Work and holidays<br>00:03:03 - Hotel and restaurant industry<br>00:04:54 - Differences in tech organisations<br>00:06:15 - Early in career program at Xebia<br>00:09:56 - Hiring globally<br>00:11:33 - Everyone is working from anywhere<br>00:12:55 - Keeping the culture<br>00:14:38 - Culture is ever-evolving<br>00:16:26 - Behaviour and values<br>00:18:22 - Workshops on virtues<br>00:20:13 - Understanding the business as a developer<br>00:21:57 - Remote working challenges from the development side<br>00:23:35 - Being deliberate when you work remote<br>00:25:05 - Marleen set up the people experience team<br>00:27:26 - Openly discussing challenges<br>00:29:48 - The way of working within a team<br>00:31:51 - Wherever people work, mistakes happen<br>00:34:45 - Having a clear purpose<br>00:37:12 - The challenge to align everyone<br>00:39:54 - Remote town halls are challenging<br>00:41:56 - Processes that change when companies grow<br>00:44:43 - Being flexible in the way you communicate<br>00:47:02 - Patrick&#39;s memory of working in diverse teams<br>00:47:51 - How Marleen and Sebastiaan started working together<br>00:49:31 - Talking about systems<