What makes mySugr tick? What are our monster tamers working on and thinking about? And what are they doing besides making diabetes suck less? You want a behind-the-scenes look? Check out our mySugr Culture and Engineering sections to find out!

mySugr Culture

Don’t Kill Your Daily Team Stand ups. Adapt them!

In these recent software development times, who doesn’t know about Scrum?

Rahul Devaraja

Jan 18, 2021

Seven Learnings About Technical Debt

“It is not enough for code to work.” ― Robert C. Martin

Andreas Guetz

Dec 3, 2020

Designing as a team at mySugr

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together” — African proverb

Israel Mesquita

Nov 25, 2020

How Working Backwards Backfired At Us And What We Learned From It!

Our experience with working backwards taught us how things are not supposed to work in some aspects. Here’s what we learned!

Rahul Devaraja

Jul 7, 2020

“I Missed My Flight to the Interview and Got Hired!”

I made a big decision to look for a new job hoping to face new challenges and adventures. And life took me by my own word there!

Rahul Devaraja

Jun 2, 2020

How We Keep the Team Spirit High in 180 Home Offices

We moved completely to Home Office this March for the first time ever as a whole company. This is how we are keeping the team spirit high!

Ester Soidla

May 5, 2020

How You Can Celebrate Diversity by Cooking Together

We have been living diversity in a modern working environment for quite some years already — but it’s also relevant to talk about it!

Nadine Schellander

Mar 16, 2020

Tracking my blood sugar as a person without diabetes for one week

Last week, some of our monster tamers checked our blood sugars and counted carbs for a whole week — even though we don’t have diabetes.

Marie Kaiser

Feb 6, 2020

5 simple ways to make your company more sustainable

Small actions can have a big impact. This is the unofficial motto of our newly founded ‘Sustainability Circle’ at mySugr. The…

Mirjam de Klepper

Sep 6, 2019

“There’s gonna be a lot of emotions, laughter and sarcasm”

An interview with Clara Huet

Sarah-Maria Richter

Jun 24, 2019

Culture Fit or Culture Add? Embracing being ‘a bit weird’ at mySugr

I had dinner with my friend Suzy last Friday. Her and I have a lot in common. We’re both immigrants to Austria, from developing countries…

Iris Jumbe

May 31, 2019

Exercises to become a strong team

When I started as a senior marketing manager in Team Panda (yes, my team is called Panda!!!), I was so lucky to kick off my job with a…

Tamara Stix

Feb 5, 2019

How mySugr enables my productivity

Well, it’s definitely not by feeding me with sugar. But how many stories about people doing most of their work after hours or while…

Milan Steskal

Feb 5, 2019

QA Specialists at mySugr: more than just testers

The first important point to mention is that mySugr is an agile organisation that attracts creative problem-solvers.

Guillaume Cregut

Jan 22, 2019

My First Job In 6 Years

Try to ask freelancers or entrepreneurs about being employed again. Many will tell you that they couldn’t really imagine being employed…

Milan Steskal

Dec 20, 2018

Divörsity at mySugr

In October 2018 mySugr took part in Divörsity, the first ever Austrian Days of Diversity.

Casey Lemmens

Nov 22, 2018

The OKRs story

Let me share with you the story of mySugr’s quest to OKRs land. Long before my arrival, the monster tamers at mySugr were using OKRs…

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Aug 1, 2018

I’ll be back!

In autumn 2017 I searched for an internship as this was a compulsory part of my studies in biomedical engineering. After some research I…

Christoph Jirik

Jun 19, 2018

From backpacker to monster tamer

Last year I took a break for some months to relax and also rethink the way I want to live, especially concerning work. I knew that I…

Julia Kral

Jul 9, 2018

From remote work to beachside workouts

Kyle and I both worked at Smiths Medical with the Deltec Cozmo insulin pump. However, in 2009, the company pulled the plug on the diabetes…

Scott K. Johnson

Jun 16, 2018

How I ended up in a long-distance relationship

Insights about how it feels to work remotely for mySugr.

Miriam Stangs

Apr 10, 2018

Picture-Perfect

Is it possible to grow fond of someone you haven’t even met yet? Try to picture it — because that’s what happened to me: I fell in love…

Alexandra Lenger

Apr 3, 2018

Cultural differences

There are different ways a company’s culture finds it’s way into the daily environment. Read Markus’s personal view of how mySugr made it.

Markus Kukla

Feb 23, 2018

Meeting the Flip-Flop guy from Sweden

What do flip-flops and bear-feat people tell you about a company culture? What has a monster pack to do with making diabetes suck less?

Christian Hattinger

Feb 23, 2018

Here to stay

If I wasn’t offered the job at mySugr, I would have kept turning up anyway until someone accepted that I work there.

Fatima Girach

Feb 23, 2018

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