Meet the employees

Louise wants challenges – and lots of them, please.

 

– In my former job, I was responsible for aligning and adjusting national company law to coincide with EU company law. It could literally take years before you saw the results of your hard work. And sometimes you didn’t. If politicians changed their minds, or some special case came up, a lot of hard work could be wasted because the focus changed overnight. It was a very interesting job, but it could also be very frustrating …

 

– If we encounter a challenge, we meet, discuss our options and then we act!

– Well, actually I didn’t know anything about Nets; I just saw a job description with my name written all over it. I applied for the job and here I am! One of the things I noticed when I started was that, every time I spoke to a colleague, the person seemed to have been working at Nets for many years. This includes younger people like me, who usually change jobs fairly often. After a while, I found out that this is because Nets has a tradition and culture, and of course a certain size, that makes it easy to stay when your interests change and your skills develop. As a relatively young person, this is very important to me.

 

– Oh, that’s an easy one. It’s definitely the speed of processes and decisions. If we encounter a challenge, we meet, discuss our options and then we act! No matter whether it’s planning and arranging an extraordinary general meeting or defining and overcoming the challenges of a change in our internal setup. Bearing in mind that Nets is the umbrella for almost 30 companies, there are always new interesting challenges in Corporate Affairs. And, from my perspective, that’s as good as it gets.

– One of the main reasons why I enjoy working at Nets is our great ambition. It takes initiative and a lot of drive

– In my three years at Nets, I have always felt that I am working at the forefront of the industry.

for us to achieve our shared objectives. Working closely with dedicated people allows me to develop my own skills and realise my own full potential.

– The Nordic perspective, you could say, is part of this development, too. To me, working in different markets and cultures across the company is a huge source of inspiration. Also, the sheer size of the company is attractive. There is always an interesting new customer, a new solution or a new market on the horizon. In my three years at Nets, I have always felt that I am working at the forefront of the industry.

 

– Hm… one important issue for me is that, when we say that being a team player is important, it’s not something that we just say: it’s a fact. Right now, I’m a part of several teams that cross different business units and countries, which I find very inspiring. In addition, I would like to highlight all the skilled colleagues I have the opportunity to work with every day.

 

– I first applied for the job because I wanted to work with critical systems on a large scale, and still do. And this is exactly what I have been doing for six years now. Nets’ customers are the largest in northern Europe so almost everything we do affects thousands of people. This means that we have to be extremely thorough and pay great attention to each and every detail, no matter how small it is. It can be extremely challenging, but it is also very satisfying to know that our clients get the best and most reliable solution possible.

 

– I have a high degree of freedom.

– Well … as a developer you have to be structured and logically minded, of course. I have a very high degree of freedom to do what I think is necessary to solve a task or meet a target. We mainly use Java in our everyday development and we work together to find the best way to implement new features. We try to be as agile as possible and use Scrum and Kanban as one the methods. We can also apply to take part in ‘Nets 20%’ based on certain criteria. Employees in AD&AM P&I may then use up to 20 per cent of their working hours on developing new ideas or processes. It’s not just about having the time – knowing that management and colleagues encourage freedom and initiatives is very important to me.

 

– Ha-ha … I would be lying if I said that this description of ‘my tribe’ is new to me. But, seriously speaking, as a developer at Nets, it’s impossible to live up to this myth. We do a lot of our work in teams and everybody is invited to help and speak their mind. This is because most of our projects are very complex and therefore need input from all kinds of people and experts. Also, I have a lot of contact and meetings with our clients. So, at Nets we are actually somewhat the direct opposite of the traditional description of developers.