Raluca Dolan, Cognizant Softvision: “The organizational culture has changed radically in recent years”

“We are a company of agile programmers, we know how to work in this hybrid way. From 1,500 employees we reached 2,500 in a single year. It is an important challenge to recruit so many IT programmers. It was not easy to recruit them and it was even more challenging to do the onboarding,” Raluca Dolan, HR Director, Cognizant Softvision said during Workplace of the Future conference organized by The Diplomat-Bucharest.

“At Cognizant, a new employee does not come to a project, but to a community. The cohesion of the teams is given by the technology they work with. Programmers have a passion for the technology they develop and a thirst for knowledge and the transmission of information to their colleagues. There are formal and informal mentors, there is the part of thoughtful leadership.

We renovated and expanded our offices to prepare for the end of the pandemic and the reception of new employees in the offices. Our offices have an eco-friendly air and we have developed several green areas in the work spaces, where we can relax in natural green spaces.

We created gaming rooms for employees, including a racing simulator, we signed contracts with different partners to help us do sports in the offices. The choice of offices also depended on the existence of football or tennis courts nearby, so that we could relax there.

The organizational culture has changed radically in recent years. We were used to working in a certain way, then the pandemic came. In addition, the number of employees increased from 1,500 to 2,500 in a relatively short time, and our challenge is to redefine ourselves, to reinvent ourselves, to put our priorities and values ​​in order. Now is the time to redefine the organizational culture.”

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