Culture Accommodating to Physical Space

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Talk given at ALE 2013 (Bucharest). Less than a year ago Criteo, which has grown 200.000% in five years, moved to a new building to accommodate its team, which doubles in size every 6 months. The sub tribes in the R&D department accommodated to the different territories in the unusual modern architecture. Or did the territories foster sub tribes and their subcultures? In this presentation we see a case of physical environment influencing cultural makeup and vice versa. We also show how group size tends to Dunbar's number for group satisfaction. Finally, we propose techniques to scaling groups beyond the 80 person chasm.

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Accommodating CultureAdrian Perreau de Pinninck@eidrien

Friday, October 25, 13

General Information

Friday, October 25, 13

Founded in 2005 by 3 engineers

Started personalized advertising in 2008

40% of employees are engineers

>1.000.000.000 banners/day

Friday, October 25, 13

7 DatacentersFriday, October 25, 13

Fastest Growing CompanyFriday, October 25, 13

The Old Building

Friday, October 25, 13

OperaFriday, October 25, 13

Relax at the AtticFriday, October 25, 13

DecorationFriday, October 25, 13

DecorationFriday, October 25, 13

The ViewsFriday, October 25, 13

NERF WarsFriday, October 25, 13

Recruitment TacticsFriday, October 25, 13

Paramilitary ReferencesFriday, October 25, 13

Too Small for the TeamFriday, October 25, 13

Too Small for the TeamFriday, October 25, 13

R&D Team Before MovingFriday, October 25, 13

R&D VideoFriday, October 25, 13

The New Building

Friday, October 25, 13

Before RebuildingFriday, October 25, 13

Completely RedoneFriday, October 25, 13

Completely RedoneFriday, October 25, 13

TerraceFriday, October 25, 13

Views of ParisFriday, October 25, 13

ReceptionFriday, October 25, 13

RestaurantFriday, October 25, 13

RestaurantFriday, October 25, 13

RestaurantFriday, October 25, 13

Game RoomFriday, October 25, 13

Zen RoomFriday, October 25, 13

Top FloorFriday, October 25, 13

R&D Open SpaceFriday, October 25, 13

TerracesFriday, October 25, 13

DecorationFriday, October 25, 13

Decoration StylesFriday, October 25, 13

Decoration StylesFriday, October 25, 13

Floor Plans

Friday, October 25, 13

Friday, October 25, 13

Friday, October 25, 13

ENGI

NEFriday, October 25, 13

EngineFriday, October 25, 13

EngineFriday, October 25, 13

EngineFriday, October 25, 13

EngineFriday, October 25, 13

PRD

SCALA

Friday, October 25, 13

Production & ScalabilityFriday, October 25, 13

Production & ScalabilityFriday, October 25, 13

Production & ScalabilityFriday, October 25, 13

Production & ScalabilityFriday, October 25, 13

Production & ScalabilityFriday, October 25, 13

Production & ScalabilityFriday, October 25, 13

IT

Friday, October 25, 13

Internal ITFriday, October 25, 13

PTFM

Friday, October 25, 13

PlatformFriday, October 25, 13

PlatformFriday, October 25, 13

PlatformFriday, October 25, 13

QA

Friday, October 25, 13

CTO & QAFriday, October 25, 13

CTO & QAFriday, October 25, 13

CTO & QAFriday, October 25, 13

Friday, October 25, 13

Group SatisfactionFriday, October 25, 13

Power Games

Friday, October 25, 13

Friday, October 25, 13

Friday, October 25, 13

Improving Communication

Friday, October 25, 13

R&D Big DaysFriday, October 25, 13

R&D Big DaysFriday, October 25, 13

Criteo SummitFriday, October 25, 13

Communities of PracticeFriday, October 25, 13

Coding DojosFriday, October 25, 13

Inter-Team TrainingsFriday, October 25, 13

Inter-Team TrainingsFriday, October 25, 13

Inter-Team TrainingsFriday, October 25, 13

Croissant CultureFriday, October 25, 13

Pizza & SushiFriday, October 25, 13

Beer & TechFriday, October 25, 13

Just BeerFriday, October 25, 13

Friday, October 25, 13