Giving back to our local communities across the globe 🌏 From Canada to Greece, Poland, Spain and the UK, our teams have been dedicating their energy to local volunteering and community projects: 🏃🏾♀️ Charity runs for vital causes 👧🏼 Inspiring the next generation of tech talent 🧑🏼🏫 Mentoring programmes to support people with disabilities 🪴 Rehoming plants and turning community centres and schools into green spaces 🏠 Building wall frames for safe, affordable housing Together, we're making a tangible difference - one community at a time. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7391059555687776256
From conveyor belts to advanced robotics - our Head of Data for Fulfilment, Sam Lloyd, spoke with New Scientist about Ocado’s journey of innovation and what it takes to disrupt an industry with emerging technologies. Read the full article or hear more from Sam live at the New Scientist Emerging Technologies Summit on 20th May.
Last week, we marked World Menopause Day with an insightful talk from Claire Hattrick, The Executive Menopause Coach, at our Ocado offices in Hatfield ✨ The session brought together colleagues to discuss menopause, with both group discussions and 1-2-1 sessions, and lots of freebies. With approximately 13 million women experiencing menopause at any given time, it's crucial that we support our colleagues through this stage of their careers. Find out more about how we’re supporting our colleagues in understanding and navigating menopause: https://lnkd.in/eXxmSxRP hashtag#Menopause hashtag#WorldMenopauseDay hashtag#LifeAtOcadoTechnology hashtag#MenopauseMatters
The statistics are loud and clear: women are underrepresented in #technology. As a global tech company, we take this seriously. From our internal network and training programs which coach and empower our colleagues, to engaging externally with the community and inspiring future generations, we believe that we can only reduce the gender gap by working together - women and allies, from industry, academia, and public administrations. Change starts with open, honest, powerful, and sometimes uncomfortable conversations. Last week, we hosted a panel discussion at our #Barcelona development centre with our friends from WomenTech Network. Four inspiring panellists shared the challenges they have faced throughout their career and the opportunities they embraced along the way. Heartwarming stories and practical tips to take your career forward. Did you miss the meetup?💡 Read below some of the tips shared by our colleague Anna Terés Sáez: • Hard skills can be learned. Motivation and attitude are unique. • Look at challenges as opportunities: we can only learn from our mistakes. • Never give up: a rejection is just another opportunity to learn. Always ask for feedback, improve based on that feedback and start over again. #OcadoTechnologyBCN
Our Japanese partner, AEON, recently announced the ‘go-live’ of their first CFC in Japan, and the first orders under their Green Beans by AEON delivery brand. As part of that partnership, our technology teams took on challenges ranging from the ground-breaking High Seismic Grid to native language search in the online shopping solution. Senior Software Engineer ▪️Miquel Puig details the challenges behind that search: https://bit.ly/3OvH3Vk
🎤 After Kevin McCormacks' compelling presentation at London's #AWSSummit, we're now in Madrid with Joan García Guzmán from #OcadoTechnologyBCN talking all things managing compliance, access and security at scale with a multi-account approach! ✨ #awssummit2023
💡 An exciting day at Spring I/O where our brilliant speakers Jacek Kaczmarek and Fabio Pezzoni shared their first-hand experiences and best practices on how to effectively build modular libraries in #SpringBoot for large teams. Our experts covered everything from managing dependencies and design practises to communication strategies for seamless collaboration across teams.
Did someone say working brunch? Our global dev centres really do put out a great spread… #WorkPerks
Our #OcadoTechnologyBCN team celebrated #SantJordi🌹📘 For this day of books and roses, we asked the team to share what they’ve been reading… #santjordi2023
🎉 The team came together to celebrate the achievements of our interns in #Barcelona who recently finished their programme. Congratulations! Are you a software student keen to get hands on with Java, Spring, AWS, BigQuery and React? Interested in Git, pair programming, agile methodologies, and real world CI/CD? Keep your eyes peeled. Applications for the next #OcadoTechnologyBCN internship programme open in spring.
