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ERWAN MENARD COO & PRESIDENT AT SCALITY

YOUEN CHENE CTO AT SAAGIE

Company Culture ?

from start-up to growth

Erwan Ménard, President & COO

Claire Forest, Culture Captain

29th June 2016 – The Family, Paris

© Scality 2016 2

Scality Key Facts

•  Software-defined storage for the digital age

•  “We bring to Service Providers and large enterprises the storage secret sauce of the web giants”

•  Founded: 2009

•  Offices in San Francisco (HQ), Washington, Paris, Tokyo, Boston, Singapore, London – 180+ people

•  Ranked #1 by IDC

•  100 cloud-scale customers worldwide

•  500 million end users

•  $92M raised in 4 rounds with IDInvest, Iris, Omnes, Galileo, BPI, Menlo Ventures and HPE Ventures

© Scality 2016 3

100 Customers, 500 Million End Users, 800 Billion Objects

SERVICE PROVIDERS

MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

R&D INTENSIVE INDUSTRIES

PUBLIC SECTOR

FINANCIAL SERVICES

ACTIVE ARCHIVES

CONTENT DISTRIBUTION

WEB & CLOUD SERVICES

PRIVATE STORAGE CLOUDS

What is a company culture?

What is Scality culture?

Why does the definition, shaping and promotion

of your company culture matter?

Our experience and learnings

Copyright Scality 2015

Seeing is believing

[writing and announcing isn’t enough]


Hearing is believing

[clichés wording doesn’t get remembered]


Be Genuine

[and the most corporate things

will convey your culture]


Culture Irradiates

[it doesn’t stop at the office door]


Introducing Frank Roesner


The words from the artist “Companies are living organisms. A lot is already rooted in its DNA, i.e. the founder(s) & management vision, mindset and character. So, as a young - and small - start-up, company culture is sort of set. It is not difficult to be innovative, agile and curious when you're small.

As soon as the company begins to grow up, it becomes a challenge to remain a living - or more to the point, a learning - entity. Especially when growing fast and even more so when expanding globally.

So, here the company culture becomes really important. One may define a particular company culture and carve the commandments in stone, but obviously that is by far not enough. Buried in powerpoint those things rarely take any effect. It only happens, if every day corporate lives are inspired by the principles which define the culture of the company. And that can be archived only by the example of enough people living them.

One tool to let people draw inspiration from how others live Scality values is the book. And not only the end product - a high quality 30x30 cm coffee table book - but also the process of making it, as it involves everyone within Scality. It’s one way of showing what kind of company Scality wants to be.

Diverse, Open-Minded, Competitive, Creative, Curious - character trades which are crucial if you want to be a learning, i.e. successful organism.

To a varying degree all 4 images show those ingredients of Scality’s culture. A levitating CEO watching the CTO playing bass in the Nevada desert. A group of sales people celebrating themselves after spontaneously deciding to wear their hotel bath-robes (and walking the streets of DC in that outfit). The President of the company performing french rock songs together with the CTO. And a random selection of portraits displaying the diversity among Scality staff”


Your hiring process sets the tone

[culture fit > motivation fit > skills fit]

[everyone comes with their baggage]


The trunk of the tree

[culture is alive and dynamic]

[“entrepreneurial spirit” > “start-up” in growth phase]

Introducing Scality’s Culture Captain


CULTURE DEVELOPMENT

Designing our offices

Assessing the culture fit of our best candidates

Taking the pulse of our various teams

Organizing memorable social events

Being the guardian of our spirit, our culture and

values

EMPLOYEE TRAINING

Training Program (conferences, training, individual coaching)

English coaching to reach professional fluency

Group coaching sessions (ex : how can I convince others and influence a

decision)

BUILDING A STRONG

LEADERSHIP TEAM

Weekly sync calls to discuss our main

challenges

“Next 4 months Priorities” sessions to define and

share our main objectives

Different formats of meeting together, 5 per

year, soft skills development, business

and product sessions, etc.

ON-BOARDING

Taking newcomers feedback after a few

weeks at Scality

Offering a pack of branded goodies

Welcoming our new hires:

•  Congrats e-mail •  CEO breakfast •  Core presentation of

the company •  Understanding of our

benefits and programs

On-going feedback practice

Defining the profile of the Scality leader


PULSE OF THE COMPANY

Exit interviews

Immediate action plan at a corporate level and at a department

level Pulse Survey twice a

year about motivation,

engagement, management, innovation…

DEVELOPING RECRUITMENT

BRAND

Training to pitch Scality

Training to improve our skills as interviewers

Developing means to show our brand :

Glassdoor, Careers web page etc.

Promotional videos

REWARDING OUTSTANDING PERFORMERS

Le Club

Speaking about our best performers

Being generous (stock options, salary

raises)

Recognizing people weekly

INTERNAL COM’ & SOCIAL EVENTS

30 minutes all-hands every Monday

Weekly breakfast / Weekly lunch

Team building events for specific teams

Internship program

SPECIFIC PROGRAMS

Sports Program

Wellness Program

Social Responsibility Program

Meditation, Mindfulness, Internal Thinking Process…

It’s so much worth it

ThankYou

www.scality.com@scality

#DevoxxFR

I’m CTO bitch!

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Youen ChénéCTO@saagie_io

@youen_cheneActivist @normandyjug @codeursenseine @devoxx4kidsfr @n_w_x

Part IThe CTO paradigm

DOS pascal

assembleur

paint shop pro

shareware

SystemInfrastructure Code SellPeople

linux

apache

mysql

design

php

javascript (en 2002)

team of 2 contracts


linux

backup

mysql

mongodb

design

architecture

java, spring

GWT

UX

servers amazon

Suppliers

internship

Sell

CGU, CGV

websites


CEO

I’ve got an amazing startup idea? Are you in?

CTO

Oh yeah! (I am so bored by my work at Colin Inc.)

linux

backup

HA

hadoop

impala

zookeeper

mesos, docker

design

architecture

java, spring

angular

php, symfony

spark

testing

serveurscloud

suppliers

HR, syntec

organization

agile

management

presales

contract

communication

web site


Fundraising

linux

backup

HA

hadoop

impala

zookeeper

mesos, docker

design

architecture

java, spring

angular

php, symfony

spark

testing

serverscloud

data center

switch

power supply

suppliers

HR, syntec

organization

agile

management

pre sales

contract

communication

web site

fundraising


linux

backup

HA

hadoop

impala

zookeeper

mesos, docker

design

architecture

java, spring

angular

php, symfony

spark

testing

serverscloud

baie

switch

power supply

steel

hardware

suppliers

HR, syntec

organization

agile

management

pre sales

contract

communication

site web

fundraising


Sys AdminNihilist Developer Data Scientist

Crazy Hacker

Star d’UX

Data Analyst

Agile Lieutenant

Ninja Reverse shellPost’It master

Think systemic

Part IIThe missions of the CTO

Chief Technical Officer

An executive-level position in a company or other entity whose occupation is focused on scientific and technological issues

within an organization

1 - Execute the vision of the CEO

CTOCEO

2 - Align the product to the market

3 - Help organize the company

4 - Manage technical debt

5 - Scale the company

Part IIIShadow part of the CTO

Pre Sales

Being a member of the board

JEI, CIR, BPI, …

« Agences digitales … »

… are not so digital

Part IVTo the infinity and beyond!

Super product owner

Incremental release … for real!

3 month 2 month 1,5 month 1 month 1,5 month

ASSHOLES

ARCHITECTSMEETINGS

PROJECT MANAGERS

GANTTESTIMATIONS

Super Manager

Power to the Developers!

Auto-Organization

MISSION

WHY

HOW

Delegate technical debt management

to the developers

Provide the best tools & conference

Projectmanager

PeopleManager

Grow a coaching and goodwill culture

Let’s experiment

Free creativity and innovation

Part VFind your CTO

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A bad paid trainee is not a CTO!

#DevoxxFR 60

Hire developers is hard!

#DevoxxFR

Meetups, talk to developers!

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Good CTO, Bad CTO

#DevoxxFR

CTO

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Product Management

Management Perfect Engineering

Technology fashion victim

Entrepreneurship

Quick & DirtyOrganization

Customer oriented

#DevoxxFR

Start a small project together

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#DevoxxFR

Communication is key

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Include it as co-founder (with shares)

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www.ctbro.org @c_t_bro

PS : all pictures have been stolen on the world wide web

Questions?

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