Our new website also has a “Careers” page, which the candidates can use to apply for becoming a coderider.
6. Seven Awards and Recognitions from Popular IT Directories
Receiving appreciation words is always satisfying and a motivation to move forward. Whether it is positive feedback from the clients or recognition from popular IT directories, we get super excited each time we receive such awards.
This year we received 7 recognitions from TechBehemoths, TechReviewer.co, Online.Degree.com, TDA (Top Digital Agency), TopDevelopers, and DesignRush.
7. Two New Departments
Following the growth of our team and company, we also established 2 new departments, besides the software development and the business development teams. Now, we also have clearly defined 2 new roles for the design and the HR departments. If in the past, we used to outsource these services and have contract-based employees, now we have full-time employees within our team.
The addition of design skills changed our approach to software outsourcing as well. Now we are always suggesting design services as well together with software development. However, the final decision is up to the clients whether they want UI/UX design services too or simply software development.
Following our software company’s rapid growth, the number of companies reaching out and requesting software development services from CodeRiders grows simultaneously. In the past, our business development team was comfortable enough to deal with recruitment processes, however, now it is more productive to have a separate employee to deal with it. The addition of the HR and recruiting skills opened up new horizons for us in terms of team enlargement. Now we also actively position ourselves as an outstaffing company as we can find and hire the needed IT resources quickly and smoothly with the help of our HR specialist.
8. Health and Dental Insurance for Employees
We ensure our employee satisfaction rate is always high. Of course, it depends on several criteria, starting from the management’s attitude to the project they are working on. However, company benefits play an important role as well.
This year we updated our company benefits list and added health and dental insurance. Caring about our team’s health and helping them with healthcare matters. We encourage them to have annual check-ups and make it a habit for the future.
9. Staff Referral Program
The staff referral program is another thing we added to our company’s benefits list. The staff referral program is beneficial both for the employees, as they get rewarded for the best referrals, and also for the company, as we hire the best professionals in the market to work with us. We are proud that we have created a team and an atmosphere that our people advertise within their networks and encourage them to join us.
10. 18 Birthday Gifts
Birthday gifts became a tradition at CodeRiders. We celebrate our employees’ birthdays and make their day exciting by gifting presents. Choosing a birthday gift is a ritual we have at the beginning of each month. For us, it is important to gift something that is either necessary or something they would love to have. We pay attention to the hobbies and interests of our employees apart from work, and we believe that having interests outside your job duplicates your productivity and attitude towards work. So, we do not hesitate on spending some time finding things that would genuinely make our employees happy and satisfied. Of course, adding some fun in the gift always makes it much better and more memorable.
This year we celebrated 18 birthdays with cakes, champagne, candles, gifts, and lots of laughter.
11. Seven Online Courses Enrolled
Each year, we enroll our developers in new courses on Udemy. It is a large educational platform, providing courses for different industries, seniorities, languages, etc. We already had 12 courses from previous years. This year we also added 7 more. They are for developers, QA engineers, technical writers, and marketers.
We believe that education should be accessible to everyone. No matter if it is about elementary education, a university degree, or post-university courses like this, we at CodeRiders do our best to provide our employees with new learning materials so they can expand their skill set and use new technologies in their work.
Our employees are also welcome and free to suggest getting new learning materials.
12. On-Site English Courses for Employees
Besides the online courses, this year we also integrated one new approach: provide CodeRiders employees with offline language courses. Because English is our main language for communicating with our partners and clients, we encourage all our team members to improve their English skills.
Therefore, in 2022 we organized and are still having offline English courses in our company office with one of the best language centers in Armenia. Almost everyone at CodeRiders speaks good English; however, some minor improvements are always welcome. This is the reason we hired a teacher to help us with this task.
By the way, at CodeRiders, not only do the business development specialists or project managers speak directly with the clients, but also the software developers themselves. So, communicating smoothly in English is mandatory at CodeRiders. Having good communication skills is also one of the things that make our clients happy and satisfied. We usually hear this from them when asking for feedback.
13. Five Team-Building Activities in Different Regions of Armenia
Team building events are part of our company culture. We organize them a few times a year to spend more time with the team, to welcome and integrate the new employees into our company culture, and to enjoy the after-work time together.
In 2022, we organized 5 such activities in different regions of Armenia. We explored Northern Armenia this time. We visited the mountainous city of Dilijan, the nature-rich city of Stepanavan, and the 2nd largest city of Gyumri. We also organized 2 pool days in summer near the city of Yerevan.
In addition to these activities, we also have one new board game in the office, the foosball table. It was a fun addition to the number of games we already have in our office: billiard, PlayStation, Jenga, chess, and other board games. A few minutes of detaching from the crazy schedule during tough working days is one of the best ways to stay productive during the whole day. We know this and make sure this strategy is used in our team as well.
If you have been following our social media profiles, you may probably know that our team members are also good friends and enjoy spending time together besides team-building activities. Some of our team members also organize their holidays together. And like that, this year some of our employees spent their vacation together in Tbilisi, Georgia, while other team members spent it together in Madrid and Barcelona, Spain.
14. Adopted and Took Care of Around 10 Cats and Their Kitties
CodeRiders is an animal-friendly workplace. We adopted a dog last year and took care of him. This year we have around 10 cats and kitties. We named each of them and care about them as we would with our own pets. They are part of our company atmosphere. Every time we interview our candidates, the question about being animal-friendly is always asked. We believe that rescuing animal lives and behaving kindly towards them is as important as other soft skills our team should have.
15. Big plans for 2023 (we mean it!)
2022 was indeed a fantastic business year for the software company, CodeRiders and our team. All the achievements we have had are not only the result of the hard work of our team but also the motivation and belief in our company’s vision.
We already planned major changes for the year 2023 and can hardly wait to go into more detail and announce the big news we already have. Since it is still going through some processes, we promise to tell you about it once everything is crystal clear and ready.
2023 is going to be bigger than expected!
To unforgettable memories and success stories we had... and many more to come.
Happy New Year!
