Posts on Culture

System Administration Appreciation Day

Diarmaid written by Diarmaid

Cake and Video

We all learned something new on Friday – System Administration Appreciation Day. Even our infrastructure team didn’t know about it! It was first organized by Ted Kekatos in 2000 and has been celebrated every year on the last Friday of July. … Continue reading

Using culture to improve collaboration

Diarmaid written by Diarmaid

People are the key

Dinesh Tantri recently shared his experience on how Thoughtworks is overcoming their “distribution complexity” and improving knowledge and collaboration.  Along with selecting the right platform, he talked about the organization and people practices that Thoughtworks have built to support a collaborative … Continue reading

What motivates people?

Diarmaid written by Diarmaid

Some helpful studies when thinking of how to motivate employees

While we have been detailing how ZaLife will work, adding the game layer to it and to our Thought Leadership ladder, we have been very conscious about understanding the current thinking and research on motivation and pay. The current views … Continue reading

Hire for attitude and train for skills

Diarmaid written by Diarmaid

What you know changes. Who you are doesn't

When we meet and interview people at Kuliza we spend each round looking not just at how good their problem solving or technical skills are. We are looking at the type of person the candidate is, what are their values, … Continue reading

What impact do you want to have?

Diarmaid written by Diarmaid

Check out our recruitment presentation!

Our new recruitment presentation is ready and you can view it below or on our slideshare page. We took a slightly different approach. Instead of throwing numerous statistics, growth figures and targets at you, overwhelming you with every detail of … Continue reading

What do you get for winning a Hackathon?

Suresh written by Suresh

A awesome trip to Kabini with team members!

Friday, October 15th 2010, 10am. The Kuliza Hackathon started. It is finally the chance for our team (Suresh, Deepak, Achal, Ravindra) to work on VRoll, an android app we devised that allows users to check out the most liked and … Continue reading

Ladies & Minions!

Ankita written by Ankita

Empowering Women!

On the eve of women’s day we thought what better way of celebrating women’s empowerment than giving them superpowers for the day! All 7 women in Kuliza have been given 1 special superpower and a group of minions. The lowly … Continue reading

Coffee With A. Sharma & Vijay Rayapati

Diarmaid written by Diarmaid

Getting to know our CTO

To introduce Vijay Rayapati to Kuliza he had Coffee With A. Sharma. We all got to know a little bit more about him, such as: – His first girlfriend was a Bengali – It seems highly unlikely he will ever … Continue reading

Jazz It Up!

Diarmaid written by Diarmaid

Brightening up our office

We recently got really tired of our dull office, with green pin boards and white marker boards facing us, so we decided to have a competition to brighten everything up, make it more colourful – to Jazz It Up! With … Continue reading

New Kid On The Block

Mayank written by Mayank

How to spend your first months in a start-up

It has been a couple of months since I joined Kuliza. The journey so far has been a wonderful experience and I could not have wished for a better or happier start to my career. Like most freshers, the ‘one’ … Continue reading