Company
HR Policy
Our ability to quickly assemble offshore teams is part of a virtuous circle which is strengthened by our brand image as an employer.
Mentality
Many of our employees are shareholders and participate in the general assemblies. Having associated employees is a sure way of developing in everyone the desire to achieve performance and improve customer relationships. We will continue to promote this spirit of partnership in the coming years.
Transparency and Communication
Company life:
Addressing each other in the second person singular is the rule in our company, as well as calling each other by our first names. Thus, an intern who has just arrived will have to call the CEO by his first name and speak to him in the second person singular.
Pentalog managers are always available for whomever would like to meet them. Formally, the employees and their manager meet at least once a month in an individual interview, but they can also have informal meetings during the day, if necessary.
Transparency is a permanent leitmotiv: employees are informed on the exact status of company finances and strategy through the general meeting of shareholders (employees own 56% of the capital). They have access to the selling price of the services they provide.
International Capacity
The recruitment model of Pentalog is based both on hiring confirmed professionals, who have already acquired several work experiences, and young graduates. Many employees who now occupy key positions in the company have started working in Pentalog as interns: Virginie Picault, Monica Jiman, Manuel Damian, Serghei Goloborodico etc. Pentalog is aware of the importance of recruitment quality and has developed a genuine social marketing plan, based on two key structures: its People Centric recruitment agency, and the Incubator, an internal school designed to integrate the new staff and provide continuous training.
Partnership with universities:
In order to attract students, Pentalog maintains strong relations with the universities of the cities in which our group has offices, being constantly present on the campuses: internship offers, participating in university exchanges, sponsoring student associations; some of our employees even teach programming in the Java and .Net languages in the universities that they graduated from.
Main partnerships with universities and engineering schools:
Social marketing:
In order to optimize its recruitment capacity, Pentalog uses both formal and informal approaches: recruitment websites, sending targeted newsletters, media events (IT contests, student forums), as well as knowledge networks.
eHR-Business Process is a continuous process of human resource management implemented in 2005 by Pentalog, and then outsourced to its People Centric branch, a web recruitment agency in the IT field. This process has enabled Pentalog to directly access over 30,000 CVs of IT specialists worldwide.
Each month, these people have personal contact with Pentalog and 300 of them are directly interviewed by a Pentalog recruiter.
Thus, People Centric recruited 100 IT specialists for Pentalog in 2009. The recruitment capacity exceeds 500 IT professionals a year.
A recruitment quality process:
The selection of candidates is based on an individual interview, associated with an IQ test and a technical aptitude test. The complete process for a candidate lasts two days. Our proven recruitment methods guarantee us excellent results.
Technological Watch and Research Center
For each company offer, a collaborator is designated in order to maintain a constant technological watch. He has the duty, together with the Production Director, to assess the teams' training needs with regard to his discoveries.
The fruit of his research is shared through an internal press review and through training sessions.
Moreover, Pentalog has a research center in its Romanian offices. This research is essentially aimed at new technologies, particularly in the field of portals and linguistics. Most benchmarking actions are also carried out by this center.
Our Employees
- Tutoring for better integration:
A tutor monitors the newcomer. The duration of the monitoring depends on newcomer's experience and needs.
The tutor is chosen from among the teams and is not part of the company management. - Career opportunities:
Pentalog achieves an average growth of 10% a year and is expanding to Eastern European and Asian countries. Therefore, numerous management positions will be offered in the following years.
Moreover, depending on their capacities and ambitions, each employee can be promoted to different positions: project manager, offer manager, consultant, technical director, research, commercial engineering, office director. - Working conditions:
Each Pentalog office is situated close to the university centers that we closely collaborate with.
The average surface per employee is approximately 20 m2. These offices are all reachable by public transport and have numerous parking spaces.
The offices are equipped with air conditioners and 100 Mb networks. They have at least one meeting room equipped with a video projector. In order to facilitate collaborations, the offices are interconnected through a VPN.
Missions entrusted to Pentalog
Pentalog prospects often become customers because they have not found satisfactory answers to their questions elsewhere. The missions entrusted to Pentalog require both functional and technological competences; they are, therefore, more enriching than those of our competitors.
Fixed-price projects that are entrusted to us allow our employees to learn a customer's business in general. Within a time and material contract, our customers choose us in order to find service-minded employees.
Thanks to their technical competences and value system, our employees help our customers meet their objectives.
Thus, each employee benefits from the Pentalog image and Pentalog benefits from the employee's image. Pentalog tries to create a convergence between the employee's personal strategy and the strategy of the company. There is no demagogy in this statement; it is a logical connection between commercial activity, company development and personal development. Our projects are developed in our offices or on our customers' premises. Mobility is, therefore, an essential criterion.
The advantage is that our employees discover different environments in each of the customer companies in terms of organization, business processes, social climate etc.
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