SPLICE Software
Calgary, AB Canada
Grade: A
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Summary: “SPLICErs” are foodies, willing to help others, eager to learn, quick to adjust, risk-takers and looking to improve. They work in a friendly culture actively screening for workers who fit and want to be a part of an organization with great benefits, collaboration tools, training and perks. |
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Intro: SPLICE’s company culture is authentic, fun and driven by the company mantra that “We believe it can be better”. We believe that the empowerment of our employees is the driving force for growth and innovation at SPLICE. To this end, SPLICE ensures that its mantra is reflected in every department. Our culture is very transparent, and we feel that candidates are able to pick up on this through SPLICE’s marketing and human resources efforts, or by simply talking to any of our SPLICErs (this is the nickname for our employees that seemed to stick). Team building and growth is a crucial part of SPLICE’s success, and by hosting a variety of events throughout the year, the team is able to share new experiences and grow not only as co-workers but also as friends. Having developed a strong interdepartmental bond through these activities we can maintain an open and fun working environment. Our mantra is also carried out when we give back to the community that has given us so much – through team volunteering, at homeless shelters and urban farms, and engagement with organizations, such as Start-Up Calgary, that support local entrepreneurs. We’re a big city business with a small town heart, and we’re happy to give back to the community that gave us this identity. With offices in Calgary, Toronto, and Chicago, it is easy for companies existing across different locations to experience a disconnect, but with the strong belief in company culture, and quarterly team events, the various offices remain constantly connected across the infinitely mobile workforce. This ensures that we exist in a state of constant connectivity. This connectivity also allows the corporate culture to expand throughout all channels of SPLICE – creating an international family whose primary purpose is to drive and inspire their fellow employees to grow and advance within and beyond their roles. SPLICE's President & CEO, Tara Kelly, has been able to nurture a business culture that emulates her personal value system, so SPLICE operates under 5 Core Values that underlie the entire team’s daily activities. These are: We Believe it can Be Better, Personal Accountability, Committed to the Company’s Success, Eager to Learn, and Team Player. Because of this, the company has a better understanding of what keeps employees fulfilled, and is able to retain and nurture some of the top professionals in the field. One of our biggest drivers is that we’re keen on keeping our team of A-players happy, so we work hard to ensure we’re making things better for each other too. We believe that the longer employees are around, and the happier they are, the better the customer service so the management team is acutely aware of, and connected with, their team's morale – culture at SPLICE has a top down and bottom up focus. Essentially, what makes SPLICE desirable comes down to two things: people (who care about a balanced and fulfilled life) and passion (for making positive changes in the world). |
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Advancement Opportunities:
From the moment new employees are hired they become part of a tight-knit team with their hiring manager, whom they closely work with on a daily basis. This allows for optimal training and insights while also maintaining a close relationship that helps young employees move up the ladder quickly and with confidence in their training. Employees are rewarded and recognized for their efforts through the SPLICE KPI Bonus Program, which ties in to SPLICE yearly reviews. Through this program, employees are motivated to progress in their roles which, in turn, aids in the success of the company itself. This program incorporates the results of SPLICE Key Performance tracking – the higher the performance, the higher the reward and opportunity to advance. This model helps to motivate and incentivize the team, allowing employees to be passionate about the work they are doing and in turn share in the company’s success.
One way of fostering an atmosphere of trust throughout the team is to have cultural and performance alignment check points – these are measured through annual peer reviews, self-evaluations, employee Net Promoter Score surveys, and TINYpulse weekly questions. These evaluations assess not only the employee’s skills; instead, they focus largely on the employee’s demonstration of the SPLICE core values. A meeting with the employee’s manager as well as the President & CEO is conducted to review the results of the annual review and self-assessments to discuss areas of excellence and opportunities for improvement. We want to ensure that all employees have the resources they need to exceed expectations and grow in their positions. Understanding strengths and weaknesses within the team helps determine any appropriate training needed to keep us aligned to our vision and mission.
Professional development is also encouraged, so SPLICE offers opportunities for employees to progress in their positions. Employees are able to attend outside training and development sessions relevant to their roles in order to promote continuous learning. SPLICE also strongly believes in building a person’s resume. We would like all employees to be able to move into positions that best profit them and allow them to build on their skills and strengths. In order to do this we have developed a career development plan that is reviewed during the employee’s annual review and updated at quarterly touch-base meetings. This plan helps recognize where management sees the employee going at SPLICE within a certain time frame, the career goals of the employee, and the training and skills that are needed to get to those positions. Tara Kelly, the President & CEO, has been quoted in saying that “your resume should get better and better the longer you stay with SPLICE,” and we do everything in our power to realize this. By the same token, new opportunities for success are given to employees who have a hunger for learning and being part of a new project so many employees who demonstrate A-player behavior quickly advance to career paths that are aligned with their goals and the company vision.
Medical benefits:
SPLICE is pleased to provide a comprehensive benefits package that is comparable to those offered by large international corporations headquartered in Calgary, AB. Medical benefits are available to all SPLICE employees after 3 months of employment, and are extended to employee dependents as well – provided the SPLICEr meets the 24hr work week minimum. Benefits coverage is an average of 80% for basic services. SPLICE group benefits offer the following:
- group life, basic accidental death, disease & dismemberment, dependent life
- critical illness
- short term disability benefits
- extended health care (including out of country emergency travel assistance, chiropractic & acupuncture, and naturopathic medicine)
- dental (basic, major and orthodontic)
Community service/charitable causes:
SPLICE’s dedication to volunteering and community involvement is a crucial part of our company culture. We are dedicated to helping build a better community, and with a motto, and core value, of “We Believe It Can Be Better” this does not stop at business. Giving back is a value deeply ingrained within the SPLICE team. As such, Tara encourages her employees to engage in activities that give back to the community.
During company time, the SPLICE team participates in various community days – donating their time and skills to organizations like The Mustard Seed (an organization focused on ending homelessness) and GROW Calgary (an organization dedicated to the provision of food for the needy). Just last summer, the SPLICE team helped the organization reach their goal of growing 100,000 pounds of produce to ensure low-income families had access to fresh and locally sourced food. Volunteering at the Calgary Mustard Seed has also been a company tradition since 2009 and has helped each one of us grow as individuals – and as a team. Though there are many causes needing support, hunger and homelessness are the two main causes that SPLICE is most passionate about. SPLICE’s Toronto and Chicago teams also take community days to volunteer at local organizations that support the same causes, including the Daily Bread Food Bank, The Good Shepherd, and Lakeview Pantry, among others.
As an organization, SPLICE has invested with Start-up Calgary and Alberta Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) to promote technology in Alberta. We also actively donate to the City of Hope’s Spirit of Life Gala, Mayerthorpe Fallen Four Memorial Society, and the Brick Novice Hockey Tournament.
Employees are always encouraged to explore additional volunteer opportunities, and several of the charitable initiatives are done as a team. If there is an organization that is particularly close to an employee’s heart, the entire team will often work together to contribute to that cause. In 2015 several SPLICE employees helped plan and organize the inaugural Food for the Sol event, an annual fundraising event to create awareness & education, and provide funding to organizations that provide fresh produce to those in need, one community at a time, starting in Calgary.
The SPLICE team mirrors a tightly-knit family, and employees are heavily involved in the company’s charitable contributions and outreach. Philanthropy is a bottom-up and top-down initiative at SPLICE. Tara Kelly is a community leader on volunteer boards including Food for the Sol, EO Water Walk, and Special Olympics Ontario. SPLICE employees are as equally committed to giving back to the community as they are to SPLICE’s success. If you don’t believe the world can be better, you aren’t working for SPLICE. Additionally, SPLICE believes a strong work-life balance creates well-rounded individuals, and encourages employees to explore and give back to the world around them.
Measuring satisfaction:
Our HR team has recently implemented TINYpulse, an employee engagement tool focused on providing anonymous feedback, peer recognition and actionable insights, all in one program. The platform sends out short and frequent pulse surveys based on a variety of topics including, employee happiness, corporate culture, management, communications, etc. All responses are anonymous and allow employees to incite positive change and awareness to both the HR and Management team. TINYpulse makes it easy for employees to answer questions by sending a quick, one question survey each week through email, the employee portal or through their mobile device. TINYpulse also has a display function that can be used on any mobile device. Our Calgary office has two TV screens that can display key words that were submitted through the survey. The more times a word is mentioned, is shows up in larger text on the screen.
The HR team is also able to follow up on certain ratings to get a better idea as to what prompted the scores and what the company can do to improve, all while maintaining the employee’s anonymity. Employees can also submit suggestions through the application and when suggestions are implemented, they can be moved to the “Wall of Wins” which can also be shown through the programs display function. The best feature of TINYpulse is that SPLICE can not only choose questions from a pre-determined question bank, but we are able to tweak the questions to better reflect the insights we are trying to gain.
The key to a fun work environment is finding unique ways to be creative. The SPLICE Calgary office moved into a new building last year and we underwent renovations – SPLICE style! This was the perfect opportunity to grow the SPLICE culture by making the move fun – and use the blank slate of the new office to show off our SPLICE-y personalities. Adding more fun to the mix, we hosted a bathroom renovation competition – the team who re-vamped one of our bathrooms the best, using a small budget, won a dinner night out with their team. The losing team didn’t come out with nothing – they got a smaller prize of a round of drinks at a local lounge. Not only was this an opportunity for employees to be creative and add their personal touches to the office space, but it really allowed our teamwork skills to shine.
SPLICE focuses on allowing our offices to become a space that all employees can enjoy and call their own. Each department had their own budget to personalize their space how they wanted, including our offices in Toronto and Chicago. The Toronto team recently re-vamped their own space to improve sound flow and comfort. Having a space in which your employees feel comfortable is important for morale – it is the thing that makes people come in to the office on a daily basis, knowing that where they will spend most of the week is somewhere they want to be.
As you would expect in a small company, all departments interact with each other every day. Being able to connect on that personal level allows us to grow as a team – a team that fully supports and encourages each other to be better. What makes us unique is that we work hard to maintain a fun yet productive and challenging atmosphere where SPLICErs can really show off their skills and personalities. Our offices are laid out to accommodate open working spaces to really promote team collaboration. Some members of our management team choose to work alongside their employees instead of having their own office. Our management team consists of individuals who are passionate about SPLICE and motivating their employees. They strive to consistently mentor, but not micro-manage, and inspire their teams to make their own decisions and to be creative in their work. This gives employees a chance to improve their skills and really shine in areas that matter to them.
Each employee is a unique piece in our SPLICE puzzle – their continuous commitment to the SPLICE core values is a huge part of this company’s success. We are not only dedicated to growing as a company but as team, and this comes across in the little things that happen each day – in the form of a simple high five or team huddle. All SPLICErs put the effort in to make it feel as if we’re all in one location, even though some of us are countries apart. The relationships created with each employee at SPLICE have allowed us to develop an honest communication style and genuine friendships.
SPLICErs always make an extra effort to stay connected, no matter the borders. An example of this, is our Book Club where all members of the SPLICE team, who like to read novels, are welcome. Each book club member gets the chance to select a book in alphabetical order. When it’s someone’s turn to choose a book, they let the team know the book choice, coordinate an outing about a month from the day the book is selected, and bring questions about the book to the meeting for the whole team to discuss – between drinks and snacks, of course. The only rule is that all the monthly book club outings need to be held in a place with WIFI, so that the remote book club members (from the Toronto office) can be a part of it as well.
Additionally, our company culture is essentially what makes our environment unique – we believe that taking care of employees, and motivating them to be the best versions of themselves, is the driving force for growth and innovation. Not one accomplishment, big or small, will go unnoticed, and each failure is celebrated as a new beginning and a chance to improve. With the SPLICE team behind you, you are capable of anything!
Creative meeting places:
- Yearly Team Registration for the Calgary Dragon Boat Festival which is held on a beautiful reservoir overlooking the Rocky Mountains.
- Previous Annual Team Meetings at the Grizzly Paw in Banff, AB. and Iron Goat Restaurants in Canmore, AB – again surrounded by the gorgeous Alberta landscape.
- Previous Team Events Include: White Water Rafting in Kananaskis, AB; GPS Challenge in Canmore, AB; Rock Climbing in Kananaskis, AB; Ropes Course & Zipline in Canmore, AB; Speeders Go Karting in Calgary, AB; Stampede Rodeo in Calgary, AB
- Annual Christmas Parties Include: Aussies Rules Dueling Piano Bar in Calgary, AB; Cooking Class at The Cookbook Co. Cooks in Calgary, AB; Murder Mystery Dinner in Calgary, AB
Perks:
Healthy eating is an important part in SPLICE culture – many employees live by this mantra and are always providing recommendations on how we can transfer this into our office space. Currently SPLICE receives a weekly fruit, cereal, soy milk, regular milk, and granola bar delivery to our Calgary office and a bi-weekly fruit delivery to our remote offices since there are fewer people in those locations. We also provide beverages including a variety of specialty coffees, tea and hot chocolate. It gives our team an opportunity to take breaks in the workday and have a healthy snack – allowing them to feel more energized for the rest of the day.
SPLICE also provides Essential Oil Diffusers in all offices, and allows employees to choose the oils they like and then expense them as a corporate spend so that they can have comfortable and enjoyable work stations.
SPLICE often hosts potlucks, which allows the team to show off their culinary skills and is a great chance to connect with one another. All new hires are greeted with balloons, a handwritten card, and a lunch with the entire team on their first day, giving everyone the opportunity to personally welcome them to SPLICE. We regularly bring in treats on holidays, birthdays and as a surprise, special candy magically appears in the offices – sour soothers are certainly a favorite of the team. Additionally, SPLICErs are avid Pi-Day celebrators – having each team member bring in their favorite sweet or savory pie and spend time eating and hanging out with the team.
The Calgary office also has a parking lottery, where each week a new name is drawn and the winning employee gets the underground, heated parking space – especially valuable in the Calgary winter season! Since the Toronto office is located in downtown, where parking is sparse (and not needed), their office suite provides discounted gym memberships as a perk!
As an added bonus, SPLICE sets company-wide quarterly goals which are tied to special perks. Just this last quarter, the company achieved its quarterly revenue goal which resulted in the entire team being flown to Mexico for an all-inclusive, one week “work”cation. Although the week will not be fully “work-free”, the team will be able to spend most their time on the beach, and getting to know their team members on a more personal level – with only a small number of working hours per day.
Fun:
The SPLICE Calgary office is located away from downtown; however, it’s conveniently located in a residential/commercial area. This provides our team with an array of activities throughout the day. There is a farmers market located conveniently across the street from the office and employees regularly spend their lunchtime breaks catching up over delicious Indian or Mediterranean food. Right next door is a public hockey rink that doubles as a basketball court in the summer months. The SPLICE team will often take a mid-day break to play some ball or there are a few who brave the winter weather to play hockey and unwind. Not only does this bring the team together and builds on teamwork skills, it also gives them time to catch some fresh air and fresh thoughts – they will be re-energized and ready to take on the rest of the day!
The building in which our Toronto team is situated hosts a Wednesday afternoon Happy Hour in which all companies head down to the basement for some free beers, snacks, and networking. This is a good opportunity for our SPLICE Toronto team to get to know their neighbors and also to bond as a team outside of the office. The office is also conveniently located beside a parkette with trees, flowers, a water fountain, and seating areas, so the team will take meetings outside if the weather is nice!
How corporate vision is communicated:
SPLICE Software’s vision and mission is to provide the best voice experiences in the world. We seek to achieve this by creating and sending authentic, personalized human-voice communications to our clients’ customers. In doing so, we provide their customers with an exceptional customer experience. In order to maximize customer engagement, we are committed to providing personalized, linguistically optimized communications that are relevant and valuable to customers. Tara Kelly, President & CEO of SPLICE, has a transformational leadership style. Extremely dedicated and charismatic, she challenges the status quo by encouraging growth through word & action. She serves as an inspiration for the SPLICE team through knowledge, mentorship, & opportunity. As a leader, she is willing to take risks & influence change, which helps motivate the team in all their endeavors, raising their tier of performance to fulfill a common vision.
SPLICE has made a large commitment to changing and re-organizing our business objectives and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). We have built KPIs that effectively measure our solutions’ ability to meet client pain points. This has enabled us to accurately track our performance and movement toward our annual growth goals. Tara encourages everyone at SPLICE to “Live a life you are proud of.” As such, Tara has worked hard to maintain and refine SPLICE’s goals and KPIs in order to provide total alignment throughout the team – keeping it simple, measuring what matters, and ranking the items that are most important both personally and professionally.
SPLICE Software measures day to day performance and employee engagement using a RACI model. RACI’s are built per position, from SPLICE KPI’s, and align to the vision and mission of the company. The RACI helps structure the activities and tasks involved in supporting the critical success factors and to clearly define roles and responsibilities within them. Each position is assigned an R (Responsible), A (Accountable), C (Consulted) or I (Informed) and the team works together to encourage maximum involvement in assigned roles by sharing any jobs well done. At the beginning of each quarter, the management team will revisit the KPI’s and pick a selection to really focus on. Each employee will then use their RACI to create a 30-60-90 day plan – which determines the tasks and activities that are most important in that quarter, how much time they plan to spend on those activities and which quarterly KPI they fall under.
The leadership team is responsible for communicating the vision throughout the organization, and setting the pace for personal growth and achievement. In order to create a more transparent environment, the team gathers on a bi-weekly basis to address the current state of our KPIs and assess how close or far we are from reaching our targets. This allows the team to better understand their contributions and next steps to reach annual goals, ask questions, and understand the ideas behind company decisions while increasing team communication. By “pulsing faster” – putting an emphasis on consistent company communication – the vision remains top of mind, and gives employees the ability to connect with, and personally contribute to, the overall goals of SPLICE.
Empowering employees:
We believe that it is important to understand employee values, motivators, and interests and try to understand what keeps employees fulfilled, and this a key element of what we’ve used to build a truly successful team. SPLICE strives to constantly brainstorm new ideas on how to make employees feel fulfilled and a part of the team, allowing us to retain and nurture some of the top professionals in our field. Team members are encouraged to participate in meetings and speak up about their ideas and concerns on a variety of topics. Having a diverse group of individuals allows us to really hear what people have to say in terms of product launches, product updates, product proposals, etc. One of the greatest differentiators in SPLICE – and a fundamental aspect of the SPLICE culture – is that SPLICE generates its organic voice from its employees. By creating an open forum in which SPLICE employees are encouraged to grow and translate their own unique knowledge to their fellow ‘SPLICErs’, is what helps us create a stronger, more powerful whole.
SPLICE also rewards employees who create improvements on change for the company. Recently, two female employees who have stood out to the team in the last year we secretly nominated for a leading industry award – The Stevies Employee of the Year – both were listed as finalists and will receive an award – bronze, silver, or gold – at the awards gala in Ney York City. SPLICE believes it is important to send these two exceptional employees to the gala on SPLICE's dime. Last year, we did the same for another set of exceptional employees.
Lastly, more work has been done in terms of goal setting for the team to better measure progress. With this came the recent re-organization of our business objectives and KPIs, it was important to understand how employees felt about SPLICE’s new direction. Making sure employees were aligned to the departmental KPIs gave SPLICE the opportunity to be fully transparent on required responsibilities. By creating an understanding of the importance of each KPI, and how it contributed to annual growth goals, Tara was able to make sure that all employees were on the same page. Initially, SPLICE sent out an anonymous “Team Alignment” survey to each department, adapted from the John Spence “Achieving Business Excellence” framework. We measured how each employee viewed our positioning in each of the key performance areas. The results were graphed both by department and overall for the entire team. This process enabled all members of the team to contribute their view, and allowed us to identify inconsistencies in perception/perspective on positioning for success. The results were directly applied to better align the team. Now, each department sets quarterly KPI’s that are measured and presented to the entire company on a bi-weekly basis in the form of a quick Pulse check meeting, so that it doesn't take up too much of the team's time.
SPLICE employees are encouraged to share team wins with members through email, during meetings or through the “Cheers for Peers” program integrated within TINYpulse. Any team member is able to send a virtual “Cheers for Peers” out to recognize or thank a team member or multiple team members for a job well done. This can be done through the TINYpulse portal or through the “Cheer for Peers” integration through Slack and is displayed on our office TV so employees are able to see what their team members are being recognized for.
SPLICE will also try to recognize team members through external awards. As aforementioned, in 2015, two of our employees were awarded Stevie Awards for Women in Business and we have two more employees being recognized at the awards this year. We completed their applications for Employee of the Year and they all came out as winners. We have also submitted applications on behalf of employees for more local awards including the City of Calgary Community Involvement Award – although our SPLICE employee did not win, it was a great opportunity to let them know that we not only appreciate the things they do for us here at SPLICE, but also for what they do outside of the office, within our community. We celebrated her over a surprise dinner where we shared the nice things we had to say about her in the award application.
If employees within your company are engaged with what they’re doing, and what the goals of the company are, they will significantly outperform employees that aren’t. Why? Because they are genuinely invested in being a part of the success and growth of the company they work for. In the same vein, employees who feel like their voice matters (and is heard) will want to share their ideas for betterment.
In the last few months SPLICE decided to give employees the opportunity to rate meeting effectiveness. Communication is key, and having productive meetings, fits hand in hand with this idea. Through this survey, employees were able to rate the effectiveness of the meetings they attended along with the effectiveness of their participation in those meetings. SPLICE targeted change for the meetings that were lacking and provided training to the whole company on how to make meetings better for everyone. This empowers employees to speak up about what is working and what isn't and how they interact in certain situations. Meetings are an essential part of day to day business and SPLICE employees are empowered to do them right.
Surveys like these also help employees understand that SPLICE implements by example. Not only do we ask the team to give honest feedback, but we implement programs and communication channels to make it possible for them to do so. After the survey results are compiled, we acknowledge responses and implement improvements based on feedback. This empowers employees because they feel like they are being heard and that their ideas matter.
Ensuring well-being:
SPLICE’s core hours, as described in our corporate on-boarding package are 8:30am – 4:30pm local time. Specific working hours per employee are mutually agreed upon with their direct supervisor. Employees are permitted to work from home on days when a child is sick, they have an appointment that cannot be moved, or another life emergency comes up, allowing SPLICE team members to feel appreciated and unrestricted in their career. SPLICE offers Flex Days to all employees, which enables employees to easily take full or half days off with minimal notice. Flex days are included in our Personal Time Off policy, described in more detail below.
It is our goal to recognize that our employees know themselves best, and to give them the most freedom possible to enable them to bring their best work. Employees can work with their managers and agree upon a working schedule that works with both the employee and SPLICE.
Annual entitlement to Personal Time Off (PTO) is specified in each employee’s employment contract, and is described therein as vacation days, flex days and sick days – these can be taken in full days, half days, or consecutive days. PTO is offered annually based on the calendar year. In the first year of employment, PTO will be prorated to Dec 31 based on the number of days employed during the calendar year.
PTO in excess of one consecutive day requires approval. In this instance, the employee must complete a Vacation Request Form and submit it to their manager for approval. Managers will review/approve and submit to the Executive Assistant. Employees will be provided with a copy of their approved vacation request and a confirmation that their vacation days have been added to the corporate calendar. PTO less than, or equal to, one day does not require approval. In this instance, it is only required that the employee inform the team on the day of through an email to the team – this is also the case for “Sick Days”. In the case of extensive time off due to illness, the need for additional sick days beyond annual PTO will be reviewed, and agreed upon in conjunction with SPLICE’s Health & Wellness insurance on a case by case basis.
It is important to understand how each of your employees likes to be recognized – some may prefer a public announcement where others may prefer a softer one-to-one approach. Recognizing employees for making an impact, whether big or small, will keep them engaged and motivated to keep productivity high – especially during the summer months
SPLICE has implemented a Surprise & Delight program to celebrate small or big wins with items specifically tailored to the employee’s personality. This program has motivated employees to give a little extra in their day to day work. This could range from coming in early or staying late to finish an important project, or helping out a team member with an issue even though it was not required of them. These small gestures make a big impact and shows the employee that we really do notice and appreciate all the things they do for SPLICE.
Longevity:
Please see the chart below for number of years by each department:
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Management |
4.20 |
Years |
5 Employees |
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Client Care |
2.86 |
Years |
6 Employees |
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Business Office |
3.13 |
Years |
4 Employees |
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Development |
2.05 |
Years |
8 Employees |
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Marketing |
2.69 |
Years |
3 Employees |
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Sales |
1.30 |
Years |
5 Employees |
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TOTAL AVG |
2.71 |
Years |
24 Employees |
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Closing company statements: Looking at someone’s education and background can be helpful when screening job candidates, but the best indicator for determining who is the right fit can’t always be found on a resume. Candidates should know we are committed to our core values. Some of the key qualities we look for in future SPLICEr’s include: A WILLINGNESS TO TAKE RISKS: Owning mistakes shows that the candidate isn’t afraid to make them. If they say they never want to make a mistake again, it’s a red flag. You cannot guarantee you’ll never fail again unless you stop taking chances. A COMMITMENT TO SELF-IMPROVEMENT: One of SPLICE’s core values is that it always can be better. SPLICE looks for candidates who tell stories of improving a process or making something better in their lives or in past professions. EAGER TO LEARN: We are curious as to how potential candidates spend their time off. We are extremely interested in individuals who navigate the world from a place of curiosity. A WILLINGNESS TO HELP OTHERS: Stories that involve teamwork and a willingness to help others is important. If you are not willing to help others, you are not someone meant to be on the SPLICE team. SOMEONE WHO CAN REACT AND ADJUST: Technology evolves quickly, and so does SPLICE. A candidate’s actions can give insight into their personality, and we want to see if candidates can recognize change and adjust quickly and efficiently to adapt. A LOVE OF FOOD: SPLICE employees are all interested in food. As previously mentioned, we celebrate Pi Day on March 14, and make many excuses for potlucks. A commonly asked culture-fit interview question is, “what is your favorite pie?” SPLICE offices have a big kitchen, and food is the heart of our work family. If the person isn’t excited to talk about and share food, they’re probably not a fit. Our workplace is like a family, and we are always looking for someone who is the right fit – while also ensuring that we are the right fit for the candidate as well. As mentioned, culture interviews are part of the SPLICE hiring process, but that process starts with the job ad, which includes quotes from current employees about what it’s like to work at the company. Such as:
Overall, potential candidates should know that, at SPLICE, we are not just a group of co-workers. We are friends and we strive to improve the relationships around us. We are not afraid to take chances, start debates, and make mistakes because it is how we learn, grow and innovate who we are and what we do. Candidates should join our team because they want to be a part of an incredible journey, one that is just beginning. A journey that would not be possible without the amazing, diverse group of individuals that are currently a part of our team. To see just how amazing our team is, take a look at some photos below:
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