‘Tis is the season to be jolly, and at GoodData, there is holiday cheer everywhere! From Brno to Boston, Portland to Prague to San Francisco, we are making the season bright… Reflecting on the year our CEO Roman Stanek said “2015 was about staying true to the GoodData DNA and our culture that is defined by the amazing spirit of our teams ” He also shared his favorite quote from Ben Horowitz’s book The Hard Things about Hard Things “Building a company is not easy ...While we are far from perfect we are jolly about a few things and wanted to take a moment to thank our incredible GoodFamily, and look back on what made 2015 a year to remember!”

12 Days of GoodFamily

Customer Obsession

Our culture is defined by our core values, and this is our top-most company value. 2015 saw our teams create amazing business outcomes as they put their best forward in creating value for our customers!

An Open GoodVoices

Program

What works and what can we do better?The ability to talk about problems— both positives and negatives—is key, and this goes in all directions both ways (top-down, bottom-up, and across functions).

We set up our GoodVoices program to ensure Leadership hears feedback in a candid way. Special thanks to our GoodVoice Champions who partnered with Leaders + PeopleOps to make this possible and led to measurable improvements in our talent metrics and focus on key business outcomes!

3 GoodLife Facts:Our GoodLife Champions emphasized benefits of health & wellness through: 1. Weekly yoga, walking,

running, and cycling activities across all GoodData offices.

2. Intense competitions and prizes!!

3. Driving Amazing Participation - 100% above industry levels!

GoodLife Program Run by Employee Champions

4 Facts about Women in Leadership Program in US:

● 57% of female employees are Directors

● 34% of female employees are Managers

● 34% of female employees are in technical roles

● 34% of employees are female

Women in Leadership

Company Traditions

Here are 5 company traditions we love: 1. Czech Conference Day where employees

share their knowledge2. Lunch and Learn with Customers3. Bring your Kids to Work Day 4. Our Prague office celebrates St Nicks Day in

December where the whole family is invited to the workplace!

5. Finally our Sales Rally where our field teams gather every year to connect, strategize and have fun!

We were thrilled to make several promotions to leadership (as well as several key hires) this year, strengthening our existing leadership bench. Our top six key hires this year include CMO, RVP Sales, VP Services, Chief Security & Information Officer, VP Product, and a VP UX. Featured here are members of GoodData leadership team celebrating Halloween in full spirit!6 Key Hires That

Pack our Leadership Punch

7x 24 Creativity & Innovation

The favorite event of our all-star engineering teams was, hands down, our Hackathons! The last one included 26 competing teams across locations. That meant not only many interesting projects, but also many cups of coffee consumed, and many hours of overtime team-building!

Continuous Development &

Feedback That Keep Us Agile

Change is the only constant at GoodData! Focus on real time feedback and ongoing development planning vs. multiple cycles of rankings or ratings is what keeps us agile. Thank you to all the managers and team leads that made this possible!

This year we also came together in giving back to our community in 9+ events in every location.

GoodPeople DoingGood

Intentional Collaboration

Keeping a company connected over multiple locations, continents and time zones is not easy, especially when we move at the speed of light. So we don’t leave communication to serendipity, and have regularly scheduled weekly town halls, All-Hands, and offsite meetings. Our monthly newsletter is where employees contribute stories, pictures, and memorable moments with each other.

Team Events that are Heartfelt

Lastly, our holiday parties and annual offsites are events where we get together, have fun, and connect with each other in a truly memorable heartfelt way. So, if impromptu speeches accompanied with tears of joy, flash mobs, et. al aren’t your thing we will understand ….

Year round celebration of

successes

We fight hard to win and make sure we take the time to recognize and celebrate our successes and have fun while we’re at it!

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