OUR BAND CULTURE
WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE ON STAGE
Learn. Master. Play. Smile.
Learn.
Being curious and learning continuously are deeply ingrained in our DNA at Fretello. Whilst we support our users to steadily improve and progress, we certainly do the same within our team. Giving constructive feedback, asking questions and sharing knowledge is a daily routine for Fretellians. Biweekly demo-times provide a stage to show your projects, share your learnings and create a deeper understanding of the various work areas at our startup.
Master.
The more you practice the better you get. This applies to learning an instrument as well as to any skill you can think of. Not everything is going to turn out as you initially planned it. It’s completely normal to make mistakes or fail. What's important is to learn from it, adapt, get going again and grow. Nothing is set in stone. We love how Fretellians evolve, proactively bring their experience to the stage, share and implement ideas for improvements and are not afraid of getting their hands dirty to make sure we all work in concert.
Play.
At Fretello, we all do what we love and that’s what makes us good at it. We are all passionate about our area of expertise. The positive energy you can feel when people are living their vocation is inspiring and makes collaborating pretty exciting. And yes, frankly speaking, there are always some tasks you might not particularly enjoy. Those are usually part of the deal and easy to handle thanks to the positive energy our team brings to the table. Being a remote-first company, we certainly don’t compromise on socializing regularly virtually and onsite.
Smile.
Are you taking yourself too seriously? Well, we don’t. Engaging stories and (mostly appropriate) jokes are part of our everyday work. We try to balance being focused on our work and enjoying ourselves and the bond with our fellow Fretellians. This bond is further strengthened by the mutual trust we have in our competencies and the solution-oriented approaches we follow. Pulling on one string to bring our vision to life and creating something meaningful, puts a big smile on our faces. On yours too?
Talking about smiling...
We are not taking ourselves too seriously all the time, including our co-founders. A random snapshot from the life of Fretellians (only German speaking meeting participants).
OUR BAND CULTURE
We’re a bunch of people with different skill sets from different backgrounds and 14 different nationalities, yet we also have a lot of things in common. We like to see ourselves as supportive team players. We value the talent and expertise of other team members, are open minded, enjoy exchanging traditions and languages of different cultures, are allowed to make mistakes because we can all learn from them, embrace remote working culture, are not afraid to give and ask for feedback, are proactive, clear, and appreciative communicators, and believes in our purpose and product.
A.C.U.T.E
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We are agile to incrementally get to where we want to be, to explore directions, ideas and get early feedback, to provide freedom and ownership. -
We are curious to experiment and learn, to never stand still and continuously get better at who we are, what we do and how we do it. -
We are united to act in concert as a team and with our users, to rely on each other, value every contribution and succeed and fail as one. -
We are transparent to create a common understanding, commitment and trust, to embrace honest and constructive feedback and build an inclusive work environment for Fretellians to thrive. -
We are empathic to appreciate and listen to each other, to embrace diversity and different viewpoints, to genuinely care.
OUR BENEFITS
🏖️Personal time off (25 days paid leave per year)
🕑Flexible working hours (core hours 10:00 to 14:00)
📆 38.5 hour work-week (overtime compensated as time-off 1:1)
💻Remote first work setup and mindset
👩🏽🤝👨🏻A small and multicultural team (25-30) with lots of individual impact and responsibility
🎭Fun, relaxed, and regular remote team events and onsite team retreats
💡An emphasis on continuous learning and growth with dedicated learning days
💎Shared and lived values: Agility, Curiosity, Unity, Transparency, and Empathy
🧠Mental wellbeing initiatives such as Mindfulness Wednesdays, and optional paid external therapy sessions
REMOTE WORK
We want to enable Fretellians to have a healthy work-life-integration and easily combine their personal life with their occupation. As a remote-first company, we believe that collaboration isn’t bound to a physical location. Working from anywhere can be equally collaborative and effective as working alongside in the office, as long as you have the right people and the right workflows figured out.
Read more about our take on remote work.