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kununu has a new office in Vienna. As part of NEW WORK SE, we have moved into the “New Work Base” together with the other NEW WORK brands. The “New Work Base” is located in the “Haus am Schottentor”, a famous listed landmark building. Together with the other NEW WORK brands XING, XING E-Recruiting,

People expect to be able to use their applications anytime they want to. To accomplish this, engineering teams need to keep resiliency in mind while building their applications. Resilience is the ability of a system to manage and graciously recover from failures. Resiliency patterns aim to ensure th

For many people COVID-19 had a big influence on their career. Obviously, people working in areas like the travel or the hospitality industry were especially affected as many had and still have to worry whether their jobs will still be there in a few month's time. Quite a number of my friends and acq

Hélder joined kununu more than 2 years ago as Vice President of Technology. Since then he has shaped kununu not only on the engineering side, but also on the strategic level. In this interview he shares insights about his career, big challenges and how he tackles them. Hélder explains also why he va

For more than a year, protecting our physical health has been the focus in our work and private life. For good reason, kununu has also been working completely remotely since March 2020. In times when the direct personal exchange is so limited, it is even more important than usual to keep an eye on t

For the first time since the company was founded in 2007, kununu is now led not by one single person, but by a team of three: Rohan Garg (Managing Director), Yenia Zaba (Director Global Communications & Brand) and Hélder Martins (Vice President Engineering). All of them are already very familiar

2020 is an ongoing challenge to most companies. Although at kununu we were used to working remotely, the coronavirus brought new challenges to this. The pandemic and its consequences have changed the way we interact as a team and will probably change the way companies approach work in the future. We

For many people, the first time they encountered any implications of the Coronavirus crisis was in their workplace. And while the virus’ impact on our home lives is certainly undeniable, the way that the Coronavirus pandemic so quickly changed the way we all work and that it has generated so much in

As Agile Coaches, we help train kununu teams on the agile methodology and we oversee the development of agile teams to ensure effective outcomes for the whole company. We are responsible for guiding teams through the implementation process and are tasked with encouraging engineers and leadership to

At kununu, we have a big kick-off event every January. Usually, our parent company New Work SE organizes a joint festival-like event in one of the locations of the companies that belong to the New Work SE universe. People from many different countries and with different backgrounds come together to

We have 3 Hackweeks per year, in which our teams go beyond their day-to-day business and explore new projects, ideas or technologies. 13 different projects were initiated this Hackweek#2 2020.Hackweeks at kununu are internal hackathons that last an entire working week. We use these hackathons for le

The digital world is made up of vast amounts of data and that data keeps growing. Companies who do right by data have a huge opportunity to use it to make better decisions - from important strategic decisions to the color of a button. This article gives three examples of how we use our data at kunun