Cohesity

Cohesity

Santa Clara, CA 

www.cohesity.com

Grade: A-

Summary: “Cohesians” get family trips to Hawaii and Mexico, no set office hours, happy hours, located in Silicon Valley, massages, wellness days and company lunch.

Intro: Cohesity is an innovative, fast-paced startup with a strong commitment to fostering talent and cultivating a collaborative team environment. With the hyperconverged market skyrocketing, there are enormous opportunities for growth. The leadership team promotes a strong work/ life balance approach and consistently rewards employees when company goals are achieved.

Impact statements: Cohesity recently planned a trip to Hawaii and Mexico for employees and their families for achieving revenue goals. We cover all benefits premiums at 100% for both employees and their dependents. Cohesity prides itself in giving back to the community and is involved in a number of charitable efforts. We have a non-accrued vacation policy and the ability to work remotely as needed.  Also there are not set “in the office” hours. The company offers to employees on-site massages, soccer and wellness days in addition to company lunches. What makes Cohesity unique is its commitment to customer satisfaction that permeates throughout the organization. Cohesity employees, known as “Cohesians”, pride themselves on their core values of integrity and respect for customers, taking a true “all hands on deck” approach to business. We have a very transparent culture, with an open-door policy where employees can approach HR or the leadership team at any time.

Advancement Opportunities:

For those interested, we give people leadership and management opportunities who haven’t had the experience before.

Medical benefits:

We cover all benefits premiums at 100% for both employees and their dependents.

Community service/charitable causes:

Cohesity prides itself in giving back to the community and is involved in a number of charitable efforts.

Cause	Action
Over 70 employees and their families participated in either the 5K or 10K walk/run – 2016 Silicon Valley Turkey	This event benefits Healthier Kids Foundation Santa Clara County, Housing Trust Silicon Valley and Second Harvest Food Bank.
“The Family Giving Tree”	Hosted a food drive for the holidays, and adopted/sponsored a family.

Measuring satisfaction:

HR Hosted monthly lunches/roundtables to collect feedback on company culture, benefits, and leadership. We also participate in the Bay Area Top Workplaces. In addition, we are working to add “coffee corners” each month for employees to meet with our leadership and CEO team to ask questions about the business and give feedback on the company culture.

We have a very fun and innovative environment, with complete open seating (even for the leadership team). No one has offices, to ensure we create a team environment that openly encourages collaboration.

Creative meeting places:

This past year Cohesity held two meetings in exotic locations which included employees and their families in Hawaii and Mexico. Please see this Business Insider article about the adventure: This startup is growing so fast, the CEO just took the entire company's employees and their families to Hawaii.

Perks:

On-site massages

Soccer

Wellness Days

Company Lunches

Fun:

We have monthly happy hours, team building activities, on-site workout classes, and hosted team sport activities.

How corporate vision is communicated:

Through All Hands Meeting, emails, staff calls, sharing customer wins, and of course as they read blogs posted on our Cohesity website, and through other external channels.

Empowering employees:

We have a very transparent culture, with an open-door policy where employees can approach HR or the leadership team at any time.

We recognize folks at our Company All Hands, through email, and also at team meetings and events.  Externally, folks receive recognition when they write a blog and get publically mentioned or it is re-tweeted to our Cohesity site.

We thrive on a transparent culture, with minimal leadership levels where folks wear multiple hats and have the ability to learn new skills and operate cross-functionally.

Ensuring well-being:

We offer highly competitive benefits plans that are fully paid for by the company.  We offer weekly massages and company sponsored work out classes 3 days a week.  We also do health and wellness lunch and learns, as well as provide annual bi0-metrics screenings and flu shots.

Longevity:

Most engineering employees have been at Cohesity for at least 2-3 years.  The majority of the leadership team has been at the company for 18 months.

Closing company statements: We have a work-hard, play-hard culture, where folks genuinely enjoy interacting with each other and drive an innovative, fast pace, and collaborative environment, where folks actually enjoy coming to work!

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