Sloboda Studio

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm a recruiter at Surprise.com. The company is fundamentally changing how people work, by engaging employees and providing impactful analytics to people operations professionals. To continue scaling our impact, we’re committed to hiring builders who are inspired by our team’s guiding principle: to derive a tremendous sense of purpose to make anything we touch be the best it can be.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Sloboda Studio, and what were your goals?

Surprise.com has created a purpose built enterprise class platform that aligns employees, managers and business leaders to effectively drive “positive, goal directed behavior” and recognizes major accomplishments and milestones across an organization in support of personal, team and corporate goals. We hired Sloboda Studio as we needed additional resources to our team.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

We found this vendor on Clutch and after a call, we decided that we want to cooperate.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

Features development

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

15 Engineers (React Engineers, Ruby Engineers, iOS Engineer, Python Engineers)

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

All of the engineers are very qualified. They are helping us to build our dream product.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

Good communication. Attentive and responsive sales representatives and hr team (Iryna Korobka and Liliya Andreychenko)

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Fast communication with it's representatives and qualified engineers

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

No

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the CTO of a software and analytics firm. We provide software tools for the film and TV industry. Our main offering helps clients manage and optimize media catalogs.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Sloboda Studio?

We hired Sloboda Studio to provide us with an extra developer while we searched for a full-time team member. We needed a developer for 3–6 months.

What were your goals for this project?

We needed a reliable developer who could quickly and easily assimilate into our team.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

I'd already worked with Sloboda Studio for this type of development.

Describe the project in detail.

Sloboda Studio provided a mid-level developer on a flexible basis for five months. At the outset, they offered a couple of candidates for us to interview, and we selected our favorite.

What was the team composition?

They provided one mid-level developer.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

We were very happy with the work of their developer.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Communication between our team and their developer was seamless.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

The quality was very high.

Are there any areas for improvement?

I can’t think of any at the moment.