NIX Solutions office: working, studying and relaxing in Kharkov



    There are four facts about Kharkov that you should know:

    1. At the beginning of the 20th century, Kharkov was the leader among all European cities in the number of doctors and lawyers.
    2. Now our city is confidently striving for leadership already in the number of IT-specialists.
    3. Kharkov technical universities have long won worldwide fame and annually fall into various prestigious ratings.
    4. It was on this fertile ground that NIX Solutions was born more than 20 years ago.

    Once upon a time, we started as a small startup and steadily moved forward, eventually becoming the largest IT company in Ukraine. And just as a theater begins with a hanger, one of the first articles on our blog will be the story of our office.

    We occupy all ten floors of the new Brahma office building located on Karazin Street. This is a quiet and green street next to the noisy and busy business center of the city.



    Near the office there are as many as three parks - Shevchenko, Gorky and Molodezhny. There are also many coffee houses, cafes, shops and entertainment for every taste in the area. You can just walk around the city center. For example, walk to Freedom Square, sit in a round square next to the bulk of Gosprom, take a walk along the shady alleys of Shevchenko Park or eat ice cream in one of the park cafes.



    In total, our office has a little less than 1,500 employees. Many study in parallel, receiving the first or second higher education. Of course, combining work and study is not easy, the schedule is tight. We were lucky: in the vicinity of the NIX Solutions office there are all the main universities of Kharkov, so working students have time to quickly get to the office after couples or run away to meet with the supervisor during the lunch break. Even the metro station closest to us is called the University.

    However, the metro as a form of transport is rapidly losing its popularity with the onset of spring, and many of us change to bicycles. For cyclists in the office there is a bicycle parking in the underground parking and showers are open. Having trained to get to work on a bicycle, we easily participated inanniversary Velodna in Kharkov.





    In the mornings, we leave our iron horses at the bike parking and get to work.

    The company has 14 main divisions : developers for Android and iOS, C ++, Java, PHP, .NET and Flash programmers, specialists in creating CMS, sales and SEO, testers, requirements analysts, project managers and admins. We all spend a lot of time at work and, of course, the design of work rooms and tables reflects the character, mood and hobbies of each team.



    Over the 20 years of our history, each department has had its own traditions: special congratulations on your birthday, traditional teambuildings and joint trips on vacation.

    In the morning, surprises are prepared for birthday parties in many departments: they organize mini-quests to find a gift, draw a wall newspaper with funny photojacks and congratulations, and decorate the table of the hero of the occasion.



    Each department has its own favorite types of team building. The guys from the PHP department every summer for several days kayaking, with tents and gatherings around the campfire. The departments of .NET and Java love to go to the sea somewhere in the summer and have fun in the water park. Without exception, everyone loves to ride bicycles and ATVs and, of course, picnics in the countryside. And the departments iPhone, .NET, CMS, QA, Automation QA, in addition to everything, also celebrate the birthday of their department - each in its own way.





    We also have holidays that we celebrate with the whole company. On the company's birthday and May Day we go out into the countryside, and we celebrate the New Year in one of the night clubs in the city. But on March 8 we always celebrate in the office. Back in early March, NIX Solutions men began to confer more often among themselves in restrooms and rally rooms, to pinpoint the approximate time girls appeared at work, exchange obscure phrases and meaningful looks, and also hang on flower delivery sites. Girls, in turn, carefully listen to snippets of conversation, go out for tea, sit down closer to the guys in the rest rooms and pay attention to every little thing - it suddenly becomes clear which dress to get from the closet on the morning of March 8. In the same yearthe beautiful half of the company was again able to feel like 17-year-old graduates attending classes, receiving fives in a diary and having fun at a school disco in the assembly hall.



    Now we have three “assembly halls”: huge recreation areas on the 2nd, 6th and 10th floors of the office, with soft sofas, a book corner, table football and hockey. Here we celebrate Birthdays, arrange evening gatherings throughout the department, hold Counter-Strike tournaments, various trainings and lectures.





    On each floor there are smaller cozy lounges, each decorated in its own style. For example, the room on the fourth floor is dedicated to our football champions - two national teams of the company, who won many times in various IT championships. You can choose the interior depending on the mood or day of the week.





    Studying programs


    In our office we not only work, relax and celebrate holidays, but also learn. Kharkov technical universities provide their graduates with excellent fundamental training, and yet one can study the nuances of the IT profession only in practice, under the guidance of experienced and competent specialists. Our Training Center is already more than 10 years old: at first, students came to our summer production practice, later the company’s experts had already drawn up their own training programs, and seriously set about training specialists in conditions “close to combat”. Students who have successfully completed one of our training programs receive an invitation to work in the company. Very often, in the corridors of our office, you can also find teachers from Kharkov universities who improve their skills in working on company projects.

    This summer, several training programs are held at our office at once, more about which can be found on our website. Java Training SharePoint Training Automation QA Training .NET Think PHP EDU Training Internship for Requirement Analysts

                            

          

                               

          

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