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#### **Understanding the essence of Bitnoise's culture**
As an Office Manager, the topic of **organizational values** is of particular importance to me. At Bitnoise, a technology company, we bring together individuals working on various projects daily. Since we operate in a hybrid manner, technical personnel interact with certain team members regularly, while others only sporadically. We have opportunities to connect during casual encounters at the coffee machine, shared lunches, and company meetings. Being a diverse group, we spend varying amounts of time together. However, our shared values ensure that regardless of how well-acquainted I am with someone, I know I can approach them freely, and we will undoubtedly find common ground.

#### **Visualizing values through artistic expressions**
Bitnoise has been operating in the ICT market for 14 years, which has given us plenty of time to learn what is truly important. Our CEO and CTO are well aware of this, as they work closely with all departments on a daily basis. This allows them to constantly share the company's vision and listen to and understand what is important to the team. **By adopting an open-door policy** and fostering a culture of discussion, they create an environment where everyone feels comfortable sharing their thoughts. **Bitnoise Values** are the result of combining these core elements that have been important to us since the beginning, our years of experience, and our partnerships with employees and clients.

From my perspective, it is particularly significant that the values that the organization has lived by emerged before they were formally named. They hold such importance for us that they became the theme of our [company merchandise in 2022](https://www.bitnoise.pl/blog/bitnoise-kit-2022-edition)
, taking the form of wild animals through the talent of **artist Marta Szymańska**. This simple act allowed us to engage with our values not only in abstract terms but also in our everyday lives. It instills a sense of closeness within me and enhances my ability to identify with them.

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#### **The essence of Bitnoise's culture**
Bitnoise's shared values are a few aspects of our organizational life that apply to all areas of our operations and to all individuals involved. They foster a sense of community and form the foundation of our organizational culture. We nurture this culture by effectively inviting people who value our guiding principles, people who possess similar characters or temperaments, to join our team. This does not mean working exclusively with a specific type of person. Instead, we view it as a compass that helps us maintain our identity. This approach benefits everyone involved: an organization that grows sustainably and continually improves the quality of its services, team members operating in a stable and predictable environment, and clients who can be confident that their expectations remain consistent even as the project expands and more Bitnoise members become involved.


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I invite you to explore Bitnoise's values, and I will provide a brief commentary on how our team understands them:

- **Partnership:** We believe in delivering the utmost value to our clients and fostering personal growth, so we provide mutual support regardless of project assignments.

- **Development:** We create opportunities for personal and professional growth for ourselves and the organization. We support the development of our team members and strive for our solutions, architecture, and ideas to be mature, scalable, well-considered, and sustainable.

- **A safe place:** We trust each other and avoid imposing rigid rules. Instead, we flexibly balance our professional and personal lives.

- **Expertise:** We value each person's expertise and openly share our knowledge and experiences, which enables us to engage in meaningful discussions.

- **Agency:** Regardless of seniority, we have a voice in product and code solutions, as well as in the development of the organization.

- **Ownership:** We embrace the idea that projects evolve alongside us, and we take ownership of our work by proactively resolving issues.

- **Harmony:** We strive to create a harmonious work environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported. We work with dedication and professionalism, and we care for both individuals and the business. We support one another while respecting personal boundaries.

- **Intellectual courage:** We have the courage to express our opinions, knowing that we won't face judgment.


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#### **Bitnoise's values: building a community**
I believe that values are the foundation of an organization's long-term success. Goals change, environments fluctuate, and people come and go. But by upholding our values every day, we can ensure that our organization retains its distinct character, matures, and evolves. This commitment allows us to deliver high-quality solutions and services to our customers and associates, who can have clear expectations about our attitudes and behavior towards one another.



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Unity in diversity: Bitnoise’s organizational values as a compass for success

Second Bitnoise_meet was focused on the technical debt problem on the front end, both from programmers' and business' points of view.

At Rojber Pub, Bitnoise's experts: Piotr Baranek, Adrian Kępa, Arkadiusz Michowski, Adam Misiorny and Łukasz Roth were talking, among other things, about:

What is technological debt, and why do we want to focus on the front end?
Indisputable features of clean code?
What generates technological debt?
Why is it sometimes(!) worth intentionally running into debt?
(Not)perfect programmer?
Real-life situations - specific problems and specific solutions.
Tips from Bitnoise.
Q&A and discussion.
All disputes were settled during the axe-throwing tournament! ;)  

Bitnoise_meet is a space we create to exchange experiences and learn from each other. We believe that sharing knowledge brings only benefits, and development is very important to us.



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Bitnoise_meet #2 Poznań

On September 9, we met in Wrocław during Bitnoise_Meet #2 Wrocław edition.
Wrocław was wonderful, as well as the audience. We were in awe of the warm welcome in the capital of Lower Silesia.

Our experts: Piotr Baranek, Adrian Kępa, Adam Misiorny and Krzysztof Proszkiewicz, were discussing such issues as:

- Is technological debt generated by hasty team decisions, pressure from the business side of the project, overengineering, the programmer's ego or something else?

- How does it affect the project, when UX ends up being the least important part of it?

- How important is keeping the balance?

- Can soft skills be a solution to very technical problems?


Bitnoise_meet is a space we create to exchange experiences and learn from each other. We believe that sharing knowledge brings only benefits, and development is very important to us.




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Bitnoise_meet #2 Wrocław

For several years, I have been co-organizing HR Meetup - free meetings for the community related to recruitment, human resources management, and psychology, aimed at exchanging knowledge and experiences in the HR environment.

At the last event, Karolina Sokołowska from Bee Talents talked about giving feedback based on the Radical Candor method.

Is there anything more to say about the art of giving feedback? Or do you feel that there is nothing new to be learned? After Karolina's lecture, I changed my understanding of what is the most important aspect of feedback. I would like to share a few reflections inspired by this lecture.

Generally, when we think about feedback, the first thought in our mind is that there are several rules about how to do it properly and several methods to ensure the quality of the information provided. Usually, the recipient of the feedback is the most important when we think about providing comfort for this situation.

How will they feel when they receive constructive but ambiguously good feedback? 

- What will they say? 

- Will they be angry or demotivated? 

- And will feedback focused only on what is good be motivating? 


We could probably list many more similar questions.

What drew my particular attention during Karolina's lecture and directly became very close to me, was a specific readiness to give feedback by the person who actually is giving it.

Hardly anyone thinks about the resources that we should have to be able to provide valuable feedback at all. In the Radical Candor feedback method, we will refer to this readiness as "personal concern”.

First of all, you, the feedback provider, should know yourself well. It's not just about strengths and weaknesses - you need to explore and take care of your emotions, know your limits, understand your mechanisms of action and stress sequences. This is all to make sure that when giving feedback, you are prepared to do it objectively, and with sensitiveness to the other person.

Another aspect is perceiving oneself as a valuable and self-confident person, regardless of the role in which we are right now. As a person providing feedback, I will gain as a person by feeling good with myself and having the feeling that my assessment of the work of others came from my knowledge, experience and ability to operate on facts. And also knowing that this feedback comes directly from me and is not just a transfer of the insights of another manager or coworkers.

And now the last three elements that I consider the most important. I will move away from the Radical Candor methodology for a moment and give you quite symmetrical concepts from the Transaction Analysis, the method that is very close to me.

- People are OK - which means both me and others are fully valuable.

- People can think for themselves - which means we're all capable of making decisions that seem best to us right now.

- People make decisions about their lives and these decisions can be changed - everyone has the right to change, we change and mature as individuals and our decisions and opinions with us.


If we take all these aspects into account and think carefully about them, we can be sure that we have done everything possible to respectfully and willingly provide valuable feedback and support others in their development.



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The non-obvious part of the feedback. Where is a place for me in it? 

**The first GeekUp. Unplugged - a meeting for all fans of technology and board games, is behind us. The atmosphere was fantastic, the competition was fierce and the conversations were endless. Thank you for being with us!**

GeekUp is a space where we meet, laugh and spend some quality time together - doing nerdy things ;)

During the day, we are great programmers, insightful testers, and resourceful project managers. In the evenings, however, we turn into outstanding strategists, pop culture specialists and omniscient witchers. And all this without electricity;)

As always we provide:

- pizza and all kinds of drinks;

- a great team to play and talk about programming, testing, and project management, but also about fantasy, travelling, dogs, cats, and our countless passions ;)

- an opportunity to let your eyes rest and spend some time away from the screen having a great time!




GeekUp I

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GeekUp. Unplugged I

Introverts and extroverts work at Bitnoise. Those who need warmth to be happy and those for whom it is always too hot. There are those who live only for coffee and those who are better avoided before their first coffee;) Bitnoise means people who can be heard all over the office, even though their room is far away from yours. But they are also calm souls who wonderfully materialize when we order lunch. Bitnoise means tireless ping-pong players and partners for long, interesting conversations in the kitchen.


But most importantly, Bitnoise is a tight-knit team that loves to spend time together!
Based on who we are and what is important to us, we have created gadgets for our 13th birthday!


Our values were captured in an animal version by Marta Szymańska, and our designer, Łukasz Berliński, added some Bitnoise character.



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Bitnoise gadżety 2022

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Bitnoise Kit - 2022 Edition

On the last weekend of May, we celebrated our 13th birthday! On the one hand, we have the impression that we have known and worked with each other forever, but on the other, we cannot believe that so much time has passed!
This year's celebration was inspired by our values, and our integration trip greatly reflected them.

Here's how these 13 years were summed up by the founders of Bitnoise, Adrian Roth and Lukasz Roth:

“Bitnoise means technology enthusiasts who constantly develop. It means countless conversations at the coffee machine and an initiative that we all take. It means responsibility for your work and your team, but also our parties until dawn and board games battlefields. It means taking care of what we represent and having a willingness to help - on a professional and friendly level. Bitnoise means our passions, discussions and laughs.
Having built Bitnoise for 13 years, we believe in:
partnership, agency, expertise, development, intellectual courage, ownership, harmony and a safe place. "

We wish ourselves many more great years together!



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13 urodziny Bitnoise 

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Bitnoise's 13th birthday

Ladies and Gentlemen, the first Bitnoise Pub Quiz is behind us! What an evening full of emotions it was! The teams showed off their expert knowledge of topics related to pop culture, friendly competition and lots of laughter. In the thrilling final, Team Puszek won! 

GeekUp is a space where we meet, laugh and spend some quality time together - doing nerdy things. 

During the day, we are great programmers, insightful testers and resourceful project managers. In the evenings, however, we turn into outstanding strategists, pop culture specialists and omniscient witchers. And all this unplugged. 

We provide:

- pizza and all kinds of drinks;

- a great team to play and talk about programming, testing, and project management, but also about fantasy, travelling, dogs, cats and our countless passions ;) 

- an opportunity to let your eyes rest and spend some time away from the screen, having a great time! 




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GeekUp. Unplugged II

**PozTechTalks is a unique series of generally available meetings of practitioners from three leading Poznań technology companies - Apptension, Bitnoise and STX Next. Based on our experience and projects that we have managed, we talk about technologies, good and bad practices, tools we use, business issues and technical details of solutions that we have introduced in projects for our top clients.**

In the fourth episode of the #PozTechTalks videopodcast, we talk about the recruitment process at Bitnoise, Apptension and STX Next. What challenges are we facing? What are we doing to grow without losing the organizational culture? Who is the perfect candidate?

**Who creates PozTechTalks?**

- STX Next - the Largest Python House in Europe,

- Apptension - the best combination of design and technology,

- Bitnoise - the specialists for demanding projects.


**Together we have:**

- 39 years on the market

- +496 employees

- + 70 projects per year




PozTechTalks odc. 4 - Jak prowadzimy rekrutacje na stanowiska frontendowe?

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PozTechTalks #04: How we recruit for frontend positions

Bitnoise_meet is a space we create to exchange experiences and learn from each other. We believe that sharing knowledge brings only benefits, and development is very important to us. A fresh look at the problem often brings surprising results, and the efficiency of our work increases.

The topic of 3. Bitnoise_meet was Deployment automation using a chatbot

In the join.com project, we use a chatbot for deployment. How do we do it? What has changed since we've been working with the chatbot? How can you introduce and use such a solution in your project? And above all - is it worth it?

On Thursday, July 7, Adam Misiorny, Principal Frontend Engineer in the join.com team, spoke about how we work with the created-in Node.js chatbot, based on 4 years of our experience.




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At the stroke of five, the event came alive. The crowd listened intently as our host for the evening, seasoned senior developer Łukasz Duraj, began to speak. He led us into the fascinating world of Event Storming, breaking down its concepts and demonstrating how to use it in daily programming work. Łukasz's presentation was both clear and engaging.

In a significant portion of the meeting, Łukasz demonstrated the Event Storming process. He showed us how this tool can effectively garner insights into a client's business. The hands-on experience was the order of the day. A practical session allowed us to delve into Event Storming. This hands-on approach is the true hallmark of Bitnoise_meet. It's about doing, not just seeing.

Bitnoise_meet's ambience? Electric! Beyond being a platform for learning, it was a place to connect with like-minded individuals. Friendships were forged, and experiences were exchanged. Everyone left with something more than they came with.

The promise of "it will happen" came to life, exceeding all expectations. The anticipation for the next edition is already palpable. Until then, here's to exploration, learning, and, of course, creating a bit of noise!



Bitnoise_meet #04

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As a software development company, Bitnoise is always on the lookout for talented individuals who are passionate about technology. During the recruitment process, we often come across many candidates who deeply enjoy programming.  

One technology that consistently receives high praise is [React.js](https://react.dev/)
. We wanted to delve deeper and understand why candidates are drawn to React.js, so we asked them directly. Here are some insights we gathered from their responses.

#### **Streamlining development with React.js**
One of the major reasons candidates expressed their preference for React.js is its ability to streamline development processes. Compared to writing in pure JavaScript, React.js offers a more efficient and organized approach. Its component-based architecture allows developers to create reusable components that can be used throughout an application. This **modularity** not only accelerates development but also enhances code readability. With React.js, developers can focus on building features rather than being concerned about repetitive code structures.

#### **Enhancing developer experience**
React.js boasts a positive developer experience (DX), making it an attractive choice for many candidates. The framework's extensive ecosystem, combined with its large community, offers a wealth of resources and support. React.js provides developers with one of the best documentation available, making it easy to learn and expand their knowledge. Additionally, the framework's popularity has led to the development of various packages and libraries, such as state managers based on hooks like Redux Toolkit, Zustand, and react-query. These tools provide developers with additional capabilities and flexibility, further enhancing the developer experience.

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#### **Smooth transition to other frameworks**
Another advantage candidates mentioned was the versatility of React.js. Understanding React.js serves as a solid foundation for transitioning to other frameworks, such as Qwik and Solid. React.js provides developers with a comprehensive understanding of component-based architecture and state management, which are transferable skills to other modern frameworks. This adaptability enables developers to stay versatile in a rapidly evolving tech landscape.


#### **Boosting development speed**
React.js is renowned for its ability to boost development speed. The framework's virtual DOM efficiently updates only the necessary components, reducing unnecessary re-renders and optimizing performance. This feature makes React.js particularly well-suited for large-scale applications that require frequent updates and real-time data processing. By leveraging React.js, developers can deliver robust and responsive applications within shorter timeframes.

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#### **Conclusion**
React.js has established itself as a popular choice among developers for numerous reasons. From streamlining development processes and enhancing the developer experience to enabling smooth transitions to other frameworks and accelerating development speed, React.js continues to win the hearts of software development candidates. 

At Bitnoise, we value the **skills and expertise of React.js enthusiasts** and recognize the framework's positive impact on the industry. Therefore, our commitment lies in constructing robust and experienced teams that specialize in this library. By bringing together passionate individuals who excel in React, we create an environment that nurtures innovation, collaboration, and continuous growth within our organization.

If you're a React.js enthusiast looking for exciting opportunities to contribute to innovative projects, we welcome you to join our team at Bitnoise.



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We asked candidates why they like React.js. This is what they told us

#### Embracing the Unseen Artist: AI in Design
In the first quarter of 2023, our conversations, meetings, and brainstorming sessions began to revolve around a particular theme that dominated our work ethos - Artificial Intelligence. As we immersed ourselves in the potential of AI, an idea emerged that was as daring as it was exciting. We decided to invite an artificial intelligence system into our creative process.

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#### Navigating the Uncharted Territory of AI-Generated Designs
The decision to work with AI raised a problem: do we start with defining the motif, or do we decide on the gadgets first? After some deliberation, we chose the former, employing our AI collaborator to help generate a motif inspired by our shared love for hiking. We reviewed numerous AI-generated graphics before we found one that perfectly embodied our theme and fit our anniversary hoodie.


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#### Overcoming Obstacles: A Creative Conundrum
The initial victory, however, was just the start of a series of hurdles. Despite the exceptional talent of our designer, transposing the AI-generated design onto our chosen hoodies presented a significant challenge. Quality is a non-negotiable aspect of our work, and we wanted to ensure that the print on the hoodie did not undermine the material's integrity. After conducting several tests with multiple printing vendors, we finally struck a balance between design integrity and material quality.


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#### Broadening the Design Horizon
Though the design was perfect for the hoodies, it didn't adapt well to our other intended gadgets - t-shirts, socks, and mugs. This predicament forced us to re-evaluate our strategy. We revisited our AI collaborator with a new vision, creating a collection of designs that drew inspiration from the initial motif. We embraced minimalism in our unique designs, emphasising that "less can indeed be more."


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#### Crafting Tokens of Appreciation: Beyond Company Merchandise
Our intent behind creating these gadgets extends far beyond producing standard, logo-branded corporate merchandise. We see these gadgets as unique tokens of gratitude and appreciation for our invaluable team members. Every item we create is more than just a piece of merchandise; it's a symbol of Bitnoise's spirit and a testament to our gratitude for our dedicated team.


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Our journey to creating this year's commemorative gadgets was fraught with challenges and learning opportunities, but was it worth it? We believe so. But we invite you to judge for yourself - take a look at the pictures and let us know what you think!



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Bitnoise Anniversary Celebration: An Artful Blend of Human Creativity and Artificial Intelligence

Unity in diversity: Bitnoise’s organizational values as a compass for success

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The non-obvious part of the feedback. Where is a place for me in it?

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We asked candidates why they like React.js. This is what they told us

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Bitnoise Anniversary Celebration: An Artful Blend of Human Creativity and Artificial Intelligence

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Bitnoise_meet #2 Poznań

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Bitnoise_meet #2 Wrocław

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GeekUp. Unplugged I

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Bitnoise Kit - 2022 Edition

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Bitnoise's 13th birthday

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GeekUp. Unplugged II

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PozTechTalks #04: How we recruit for frontend positions

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Bitnoise_meet #03

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Bitnoise_meet #04

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