17 Aug 2015 Spotlight on Machool Technologies
1. Describe your company and your primary product(s) and/or service(s)
Machool Technologies provide customized lean automated self-service solutions to smart businesses. Our solutions streamline office tasks, facilitate processes, integrate closely with office systems, and reduce operational costs enabling users to replace the traditional, cumbersome and error-prone ways of performing office tasks with intelligent, efficient and intuitive processes, all from one central interface. Machool Technologies provide a cloud-based self-service marketplace platform (uDo) that offers different services along with unique analytics and reporting that helps companies and service providers get unique insights from these services. Machool Technologies also designs custom hardware for some services to make those services as automated as possible.
2. How many employees currently work at your company and where are you located?
We are located in Yaletown and have a team of 11 employees.
3. Describe the culture at your company.
Our company runs on trust. People can come and leave at any time as long as they are committed to their responsibilities. The positive and friendly atmosphere makes this a relaxing place to work. The environment at Machool encourages open communication which fosters a good team spirit. Everyone here cares about each other and it is like a family.
4. What does your leadership team (and company as a whole) do to support/grow that culture?
Managers have a weekly one-on-one meeting with employees to make sure they are happy and have everything they need to do their job. Leadership always put employees first and consider
every single employee as an important asset to the company.
5. When your employees talk about your company, what do they brag about?
“I like the culture because although we are a new team, everyone has an open mind – to learn from each other and also help each other. We are friendly and caring which makes it a great place to work. The level of autonomy we have to build our product is refreshing – and in the end makes our work better overall.” (Madison Kaylo, User Experience Designer)
“Great company growing every day. Everyone in the team is multi-functional. We make our contributions with our specialties and we learn new things to make us stronger at the same time.” (Jinling Li, Software Developer / Data Scientist)
“For me it is a great opportunity where I can develop large scale cloud applications using cutting-edge technologies.” (Jorge Whittebury, Senior Software Developer)
“I am enjoying working at Machool and here is my take on the company’s culture:
The positive and friendly atmosphere makes this an excellent place to work. The environment at Machool encourages open communication which fosters a good team spirit. Everyone here cares about each other.” (Nicky Setia, Dev Opts Databse / Server Admin)
“We manage time by ourselves so that we can spend time for both work (development) and learning. This allows us to learn about our skills and techniques continually, and also to keep up to date. Everybody in our team aims to achieve the best product, therefore we are responsible for their roles, and try to solve issues when we face problems.” (Naoki Tanaka, UX/UI Designer)
“Although I’m the newest team member, everyone at Machool has put in effort to make me feel part of the family. It’s amazing to work amongst intelligent individuals in a creative environment where we are free to collaborate and share our ideas.” (Flora Law, Marketing & Communications Manager)
6. Describe your most recent achievement, milestone, reason for bragging rights.
HONORS & AWARDS:
Top 80 – Pioneers Festival 2015: Machool Technologies was selected to be one of only 80 Showroom exhibitors at this festival (28-29 May 2015 in Vienna, Austria).
Top 15 – Web Summit 2015: Machool Technologies has been selected in the top fifteen percentile for BETA program. (03-05 Nov 2015 in Dublin, Ireland).
7. What kinds of roles are you hiring for?
We are always looking for a talent. Currently we are expanding our development team and also our sales and marketing team to help us with go to market strategies.
8. What kinds of people are you looking for?
We are looking for fun, but at the same time smart people. The first thing we consider is their personality and if they match the company culture, and then their educational and technical background.
9. What is your company goal for the coming year?
To learn more about Machool Technologies, visit them online at www.machool.com
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