The Scalers’ 2022 recap: a year of amazing growth
This has been a remarkable year for The Scalers. We’ve further expanded into the Asia-Pacific region by opening a new office in Sydney, Australia and our partnership network and the number of engineers has grown significantly. Overall, we brought nine new Partners on board — more than ever in our history. In terms of engineers for our Partners, this meant an increase from 190 in 2021 to 309 developers in 2022!
2022 was a year of bold decisions and decisive action. Our progress was made possible by the highly talented and engaged teams we built. And several new Chief Happiness Officers (CHOs) have vastly improved our operational excellence to help our Partners scale their businesses even more.
Breaking new ground with our Partners
At The Scalers, we will only ever do one thing — build great tech teams.
But every Partner has different requirements for their team. This year, we embraced some challenges for a couple of our Partners, breaking new ground. Literally.
On the 1st of January 2022, we helped our largest Partner, Preqin launch its own entity in India. This move was only possible due to the rapid growth they’ve experienced over the last couple of years and started a whole new operating model for The Scalers. We’ve continued to run their operations in India, including onboarding, employee engagement, and internal training, so they can focus on delivering their product roadmap.
However, the biggest change has been the creation of Preqin’s own office in the heart of Bangalore, whose opening will be announced at the beginning of 2023.
A final change is our shift from building exclusively development teams to building tech teams. This is more than a change in words as we’ve had to fill data research, finance, marketing, and talent development teams for some of our Partners as they’ve continued to grow.
We’re excited to offer these new offerings to other Partners and can’t wait for the next challenges our Partners present us with.
Getting recognition for excellence
We’ve always strived to maintain a standard of excellence and facilitate sustainable development. We are now proud to announce that we’ve been ISO 9001:2015 certified for improvements in our quality management system!
Getting ISO 9001 accreditation demonstrates our solid commitment to providing high-quality services. Achieving this recognition shows our Partners that we really can meet their needs while maintaining international standards.
Everyone at The Scalers worked tirelessly to audit, review, and evaluate our entire quality management system and documentation to ensure ISO 9001 compliance. Now, by having ISO 9001 certification, we can assure our Partners that our recruitment, HR Administration, Partner Management, and IT security procedures are robust and clearly defined.
Welcoming partners in India
At The Scalers, we work hard to foster a culture of innovation. We firmly believe, however, that this is only achievable through solid cooperation and unity. So, this year we seized the opportunity to bring our Partners’ engineers closer, giving them a chance to spend time with their local teams and learn from one another.
Since September 2022, we’ve had six Partners visit India: Ykone, SigTech, Johnson Health Tech, Preqin, Partylite, and Basis. We gave them a guided tour of Bangalore and held bonding activities with their teams, organised training sessions, and team brainstorming meetings.
Bringing teams closer with workation
Ever since the move to home office started, The Scalers have taken several initiatives to address remote work-related challenges. We aimed to organise workations for each of our Partners to give them a chance to come together as a team. In total, we performed 15 programs, which either took place in the office or a location outside the city. Bringing people together and giving them team-building activities helped them bond. These activities ranged from collaborative cooking sessions to camping and wine-tasting tours.
For our Partner Ykone, for instance, we organised a seven-day engineering workation Tech-Bootcamp in Goa. This gave their leadership team a relaxed and stress-free environment to brainstorm and hammer out ideas with their team members from India while getting to know one another better.
Meeting people face-to-face is much different from meeting them virtually. Our Partners recognised this. We received largely positive responses regarding our strategic thinking and unique approach to restoring the cohesiveness, which had been lost during the pandemic.
The workation program also took giant steps towards showing our Partners that we work tirelessly to meet their needs, whatever they may be.
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