Bjørn Olav - Our super product developer

Geschrieben von SuperOffice R&D. Veröffentlicht am 24. Mai 2019. Aktualisiert am 3. Juni 2019

We managed to capture Bjørn Olavs interest last fall, and since then we have been lucky to have him working as a product developer in our R&D department. We sat down to talk with Bjørn Olav about his onboarding process.

I wasn't really looking for a new job - but a job advertisement on LinkedIn caught my eye. Because my employer at the time was a customer of SuperOffice I already had some experience using their solution, or so I thought. I had been working in-house and wanted to continue doing that. At the same time I felt ready for new challenges.

As SuperOffice is heavily invested in Microsoft technologies and I had been working as a fullstack Java developer for 10 years I wasn't sure if they would be interested. However, at SuperOffice I was met by some very knowledgeable people making a very good impression.

When I started, I was met with a onboarding program to get me up to speed. With help from my mentor I felt I was productive fairly quick. My colleagues have been very supportive and it is nice to be able to approach anyone with questions.

While the job description was for a full stack developer, SuperOffice has been very open for me to do what I want, and even encouraged it.

We place all the user stories that needs to be done on a Kanban board. From that board you can choose the user story or task that you want to focus on. I like that way of delegating work as I get to choose what interests me or I want to learn more about.

I wanted to get more into user interfaces (javascript) and in SuperOffice I have spent most of my time working with their front-end modules written in typescript. When working with user interfaces, getting feedback from users is important and something I like is that SuperOffice uses their own software inhouse, making it easy to get good feedback.