How Coverwallet core values are present in the company culture

Joanna Sypniewska
Coverwallet Engineering
3 min readJun 23, 2020

What do you remember about your workplace after you leave? Projects, challenges, your daily routine? Maybe you picture your colleagues, the people that you are surrounded by, and the feeling you get while working together and achieving something as one team? At CoverWallet, we know that the environment, the atmosphere, and the working culture itself are crucial for team efficiency, creativity, and overall job satisfaction. We dedicate extensive hours for our professional development, therefore we are able to distinguish and master the crucial role of culture within the working environment.

First, find your “why” — for what reason do people want to work with you? Analyze your strengths and ask yourself what makes your company a good place to work.

At CoverWallet, we believe that the talent we hire is the key to our success. Our team is filled with ambitious people who work together and are always striving to be better, and our policy is to reward them when that happens. Values are present from the beginning, starting at the hiring phase. We advise all future candidates to look into the company’s values during the recruitment process and ask yourself if they align with your personal values. At CoverWallet we do our best to ensure the best candidate experience whilst searching for the best talent.

We believe in radical internal ​transparency​. We encourage individuals to brainstorm new ideas, look for innovative solutions, and be creative. We often work cross-functionally and that’s a personal favorite because having multiple and varied feedback from our colleagues provides us with the opportunity to obtain better results.

What drives each team within our organization? It’s definitely ​data​. We love it. We meet every day at daily stand-up to assess how we are doing — it’s great to see all 4 offices connected. A data-driven approach is essential for the future of businesses and we are well aware of it. What’s more, when new employees are presented to the team, they are asked to speak up with the fun fact about themselves, which is often something peculiar, like having 12 dogs or being an ‘on the side’ sous-chef. In turn, this makes us laugh a lot or brings a smile into the data-driven meeting. Right here, our curiosity for culture issues pops up and we’re often amazed by people’s fun facts. One of the perks of working in a fun-filled startup environment would be creating everything from scratch, building teams, and processes. The simpler, the better. We value our time, our customer’s time and therefore simplicity​ is our code for success.

What do we all thrive for? All of our colleagues have a curiosity for knowledge. We strive to improve all of the time; improve processes, simplify our customer experience, and in my case, build a positive and motivating employee experience. We mentioned curiosity as an overall characteristic of the CW employee and we see it not only at a professional level but also at a more personal level. In order to avoid limiting ourselves and our abilities, we have created themed slack groups to inspire discussion over several topics.

We think of CW as a technology company revolutionizing the world of commercial insurance. We look for people who admire change and technological revolution.

Javier de la Cueva, our Technical Director says: We believe technology is the path to innovation. Continuously evolving our systems and architecture is what makes this company able to keep redefining an industry and that is what we expect from everybody who joins us, willingness to keep innovating.

I would like to highlight that for every team member at CoverWallet it is important to feel responsible and proud for every little step towards the improvement of the organization and its projects. “How you do anything, you do everything” is a motto present in our daily actions.

Our list of values doesn’t finish here. Check out our hiring page to get to know us and start sharing CoverWallet Experience, by joining our amazing team!

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