Category: People & Teamwork

Pre-boarding at AppUnite

Maja Łukaszewska

Community & Event Specialist

Hurray! We have a new employee on board! Our next stage - pre-onboarding. Let’s dive a little deeper into this process

Code Review - Team Agreements

Jacek Marchwicki

Team Leader, Engineer, Android, Flutter

Countless words have been written on why code review is good for the code of the app. But if during code review you focus solely on code, you’re doing it wrong.

How do you actually contribute to the Appunite’s mission?

Piotr Bernad

Team Leader

Being a #1 partner is our North Star 🤩, we believe we can get there, but what’s more exciting, we enjoy the journey 🧗. The journey is where your involvement can make the biggest influence. It’s essential for our growth.

Optimizing Cooperation

Jacek Marchwicki

Team Leader, Engineer, Android, Flutter

For developers, non-coding factors that are not directly related to their work are often a source of frustration. I’d like to show you that you have the power to make your company more efficient.

Vanlife with a Full-time Job and its Challenges

Agnieszka Forajter

Flutter Developer

Paweł Forajter

QA

If you've ever wondered how to combine work with traveling, you will find some useful tips here. First of all, you should find a job that will allow you to work remotely wherever you want, and then go on workation.

Proposing architectural changes

Jacek Marchwicki

Team Leader, Engineer, Android, Flutter

It’s not easy to introduce changes in a team that numbers more than just a few developers. You should ensure that everyone understands what is going to be changed, why and how. I’d like to guide you on how you can make this process as painless as possible.

The Problem of Knowledge Sharing

Jacek Marchwicki

Team Leader, Engineer, Android, Flutter

I’d like to follow the trend of knowledge sharing and show you my own, slightly different take on knowledge sharing, to help you optimize solutions within your environment.

Workation - coming back bigger and better than before

Martyna Kowalska

Employer Branding Specialist

Workation is still a rare benefit. In our company, we have been giving our employees the opportunity to combine work with exploring the world for several years.

One minor change to regain your focus

Lukasz Kasperek

iOS developer

Learn how I filled the gaps of Don’t disturb mode on my devices to finally break free from distractions.

Building a communication strategy - a few steps to take into consideration for an effective dialog

Natasza Stanicka

Project Manager

Nowadays, communication plays a vital role in any organization and team. Also every communication deserves a strategy. If you want to plan and develop a strong communication strategy, here’s what you should consider.

Alignment tools for every leader

Piotr Bernad

Team Leader

Building teams self-awareness

Karol Wojtaszek

CEO

Building high-performance teams is hard. You need to ensure that your workplace has tools that make teams able to grow by having the right context and being self-aware.

How to get better at anything? The secret ingredient.

Damian Romanow

Head of Engineering

We often say that each failure makes us stronger. It makes, but I think it's only a half-truth. So why does everyone constantly feel obligated to repeat that superficial life advice?

To tell what to do or tell what we aim for?

Damian Romanow

Head of Engineering

What is the difference between a truck driver and a racing driver? How easy or how hard is it to hire each of them? Short contemplation about roles, list of duties, and reality, based on Cynefin.

The journey of an AppUniter - Szymon

Szymon Kuleczka

Backend Developer

Curious about working for AppUnite? Get inspired by Szymon's story.

The journey of an AppUniter - Hubert

Hubert Salwin

Elixir Developer

Curious about working for AppUnite? Get inspired by Hubert's story.

How to increase chances to be hired as a junior frontend developer

Tadeusz Miesiąc

Frontend Developer

Have you ever wondered why you have not been invited for a job interview? Did you send another CV and no one responded? In this article, I’m going to give you a few tips how to increase your chances to be hired as a junior frontend developer. and improve your resume.

Best practises of knowledge sharing in the workplace

Joshua Myklusz

Social Media Specialist

Highlighting AppUnites initiatives that promote education and sharing of knowledge in the workplace.

Don't be fooled by knowledge shared in this self-development article

Jacek Marchwicki

Team Leader, Engineer, Android, Flutter

Articles can spark new ideas, new approaches to test in your own environment. What about books? Which writing gives you more value? Learn more about self-development from this article.

5 things that will make your work experience more pleasurable and efficient

Bartłomiej Wiśniewski

Frontend Developer

What is a good working environment? Check out these 5 not so obvious things that will make your work more pleasurable and efficient.

Problems for teams with only senior developers

Damian Kasperski

Flutter & Android Developer

Being a Senior Developer is not only about being a highly skilled programmer but also about responsibility for work, decisions and other team members. Every team needs a leader and a team full of senior developers is a team full of people able to handle such a position.

How to introduce yourself to a new team

Jacek Marchwicki

Team Leader, Engineer, Android, Flutter

When you join a new team, you usually want to show that you’re a valuable person to work with. Here you'll find some personal opinion based on our developer's experience.

10 things you, as a buddy, should know whenever a new developer joins your team

Patryk Bąk

Elixir Developer

Do you want to wait an unknown amount of time until a new person is self-reliant? Or do you want a new developer to have appropriate skills and knowledge as soon as possible? The answer lies in this article.

3 problems in making newbies feel like team members… remotely

Amelia Kaczmarek

Business Development Representative

Thoughts on the initiatives that work at AppUnite during the onboarding process, which make our new coworkers feel like team members working remotely

12 things recruiters look for during interviews with junior devs (which you're probably NOT doing)

Patryk Bąk

Elixir Developer

Read our developers thoughts on how to get a job as a Junior Developer and don’t be another applicant who doesn’t stand out from the hundreds.

How to get less feedback?

Maciej Kaszubowski

Many of us wonder what to do to encourage people to give more feedback. Maybe these questions are wrong? Let's stop for a moment and ask ourselves how to prevent people from sharing their feedback?

A month of remote work - lessons learned

Maciej Kaszubowski

After a month of working fully remotely for the first time, we wanted to share our observations and lessons learned during this time.

How We Moved a Part of Our Company 8,000 km Away

Andrzej Wyduba

Head of Operations

Boom! Here we are, in a different place and time zone, opening a remote office. In this article, we will share insight into AppUnite workation project!