Before we dive into our OKR journey, let me give you a brief introduction. I work as a Product Manager at Mercadona Tech, a satellite company of Mercadona. …

A story about new challenges, onboarding, learning curves, and anxiety: I am a Backend Developer at Mercadona Tech. I believe I am a person who thrives on new challenges and loves learning new things, so even though that beginnings are always hard, I was up for the challenge of joining…

In Mercadona Tech, we define ourselves as an XP team; all we do are feedback loops, which means that we move fast in small safe steps. …

Building a Strong and Efficient Team — Nowadays, tech companies look for workers with broad knowledge about: a specific programming language, the framework they use, the last design tool, or the candidate who has the necessary expertise to lead a team. That knowledge is non-negotiable when the company’s philosophy is directly related to finding excellence. It’s impossible…

As previously stated in the first part of the series, the second tool that we started using to build our culture is the V2MOM framework. For those that are new to the term it is an acronym for Vision, Values, Methods, Obstacles and Measures. …

Being part of an engineering leadership team has brought us many challenges that we have had to address during these years. In a relatively young project (its oldest members have no more than a few years), one of the most important topics we have been developing is creating, maintaining, and…

Six months ago, I started my journey as a Product Manager at Mercadona Tech in the capacity vertical. Product management is so much more of an art than science that I believe everyone’s journey in the field would be unique. While I had done my prep through the basic PM…

Here at Mercadona Tech, we have a mantra: “At the very end, all we do is sell lechugas” (lechuga in Spanish means lettuce). This is an informal way of saying that any component in the team, from a warehouse picker to our CEO, has to base its decisions thinking on…

Does your team have a testing philosophy? A few years ago, in the Enzyme era, before Testing Library even existed, we started to notice that we had some problems testing our frontend apps. By then, we felt we had a gap between the component tests, using Enzyme, and the e2e tests, using Cypress. …