IT TAKES GREAT PEOPLE TO MAKE GREAT SOFTWARE

Years at Counterpoint: 1 Year

Why I Love Working Here: Counterpoint is a truly amazing place to work. Everyone is so passionate about their jobs and always willing to help others. We have a lot of fun company events but aside from that it's just a really great group of people who all genuinely want each other to succeed.

How Does Counterpoint Support Your Growth: I feel like I am trusted to do my job and not feel micromanaged. I'm able to be creative and have fun while still challenging myself to improve current procedures and foster an amazing office culture.

How Does Counterpoint's Leadership Enable You To Do Your Job: My supervisor has always encouraged me to run with any ideas I have and to push boundaries. I'm given a lot of flexibility to try new things and feel appreciated for my hard work.

Favourite Counterpoint Event: The Escape Room event was surprisingly fun - the team I was on had the fastest escape time!

Years at Counterpoint: 7 years

Why I Love Working Here: I have great co-workers at Counterpoint. We do a good job of finding team members who are both fun to work with and effective.

How Does Counterpoint Support Your Growth: I have been able to work in all areas of the business: coding, consulting, marketing, recruiting, scoping out new technologies etc. I have a much better understanding of the technology space, and a better grasp on my own role because of these experiences.

How Does Counterpoint's Leadership Enable You To Do Your Job: I am a member of the Leadership Committee where I can promote my own and others' ideas to improve Counterpoint. When compared to other companies, I think employees here have more opportunities to effect change in the organization if they want it.

Favourite Counterpoint Event: The holiday party

Years at Counterpoint: 2 Years, 10 Months

Why I Love Working Here: I love working at Counterpoint because of the friendly colleagues, the great work-life balance and the job's challenges.

How Does Counterpoint Support Your Growth: Because of the dynamic projects and job assignments, I need to take on different roles. It helps me to improve my strengths and to overcome my fears and weaknesses.

How Does Counterpoint's Leadership Enable You To Do Your Job: I appreciate the space and the freedom I am given to make decisions, but also the available guidance when I need it. It makes me feel encouraged and motivated doing my job.

Favourite Counterpoint Event: Team Building

Years at Counterpoint: 4 Months

Why I Love Working Here: It's a refreshing environment and doesn't let you get overwhelmed by your work.

How Does Counterpoint Support Your Growth: It has given me the time and opportunities to pursue my hobbies and potential careers outside of software development.

How Does Counterpoint's Leadership Enable You To Do Your Job: Everyone from the project managers to the CEOs is just a door knock away, but at the same time they aren't overbearing.

Favourite Counterpoint Event: Office Happy Hour

Years at Counterpoint: 1 Year

Why I Love Working Here: I love working at Counterpoint because the culture fosters an environment in which you are invested in the success of your coworkers. You are encouraged to produce the best work product not only for the your own personal success but for the betterment of the team.

How Does Counterpoint Support Your Growth: At Counterpoint, you are surrounded by extremely intelligent people that are readily willing to help. The fluidity and ease of knowledge transfer has catalyzed my advancement as a software engineer. Coming for a non-technical background, I feel motivated to reach the high standards set by the employees of Counterpoint.

How Does Counterpoint's Leadership Enable You To Do Your Job: The leadership at Counterpoint puts significant trust into the employees. Right at the exit of the training program, my managers trusted that I had gained the necessary skills to do my job well. My responsibilities also ramped up quickly as I became more experienced and comfortable with my workload. The leadership has made me feel like a valued and dependable part of the organization. This motivates me to continue to take on more responsibilities.

Favourite Counterpoint Event: Top Golf

Class at Counterpoint Academy: Aug 2018

What do you think are the strengths of the Training Program? 
The program does a great job of getting new hires with different backgrounds and levels of coding experience up to speed with Counterpoint technology.

Who is your mentor? What are some of the benefits of the mentor program? 
My mentor is Saba. She's been a great resource for me. It's so helpful having someone to touch base with about both day-to-day questions and my long term career goals.

Class at Counterpoint Academy: Aug 2018

What do you think are the strengths of the Training Program? 
Coming from a non computer science background, I was a little nervous at first that I would struggle to keep up with some of the other trainees; however, the program broke things down for me in a way that was easy to understand and learn. One of the best strengths of the program is the collaborative learning environment fostered in each training class which really allows you to dig deeper and broaden your understanding of the lesson.

Who is your mentor? What are some of the benefits of the mentor program? 
Thanh is my mentor. The best benefit of the mentor program is having a resource within Counterpoint who you can reach out to with any questions you might have about anything Counterpoint related.

Class at Counterpoint Academy: Aug 2018

What do you think are the strengths of the Training Program? 
I was a computer science major in college and the information I learned about software development was pretty theoretical and compartmentalized. Counterpoint's training program is great because it focuses on building a really strong foundation of working knowledge across the stack. For me, this helped fill in the gaps in my understanding of web development that I didn't realize existed until I was trained from a holistic perspective. Counterpoint trains you to be a full-stack developer.

Who is your mentor? What are some of the benefits of the mentor program? 
Alex is my mentor. So far, the mentor program has been helpful for me in that it prescribes designated times for me to chat with a much more knowledgeable, senior employee about my career goals and any concerns I have had while transitioning from training to client project work.

Class at Counterpoint Academy: June 2018

What do you think are the strengths of the Training Program? 
The breadth (full-stack)

Who is your mentor? What are some of the benefits of the mentor program? 
Joseph, a mentor is really helpful when first getting started since usually new employees tend to feel overwhelmed with everything they learn

Class at Counterpoint Academy: June 2018

What do you think are the strengths of the Training Program? 
Consolidating a lot of information

Who is your mentor? What are some of the benefits of the mentor program? 
Alex - Over time, the mentor gains an understanding of how best to explain things so that the mentee understands more clearly