The Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal has announced that phData has been named as a 2021 Best Places to Work. This marks the fifth consecutive time phData has been honored to make this prestigious list and we’re absolutely thrilled about it.
Since our inception in 2014, we’ve made it our mission to foster a values-driven culture that thrives on solving complex problems while continuously learning and having fun along the way. Making this list is another friendly reminder of the strong reputation phData has built over the years of attracting and retaining top-tier talent.
Wondering how companies are nominated and then added to the list?
About the BPTW List
This list, now in its 23rd year, highlights an elite group of businesses that offer an exceptional work environment according to their personnel via a survey. Once a company applies for the award and meets the entry criteria, a survey is sent out on behalf of the Minneapolis-St.Paul Business Journal to employees. The survey is meant to gauge employee feedback of their company based on culture, communication, efforts, leadership, benefits, and more. Once the survey results are in, BPTW determines honorees and later announces winners.
What it’s Really Like Working at phData
Working at phData has several benefits, perks, rewards, and its fair share of challenges. The feedback collected below is derived from several sources including job sites, our career page, and first-hand employee experience.
The Great
phData embraces its core values and offers a thriving culture for employees to do meaningful work, advance their careers, and have fun daily.
Highlights:
- Remote-first culture (flexible work environment)
- Four paid weeks of PTO
- Competitive compensation
- Challenging and rewarding projects
- 401(k) matching
- Professional Development Allowance
The Even Better
It’s hard to sum up all of the excellent qualities with phData in just one sentence but here’s our shot:
phData offers a supportive (and highly collaborative) work environment where employees are genuinely empowered to do their career’s best work — all while making a noticeable difference for how our clients derive value from their data.
Highlights
- Completely invested in new technologies and growing the tech stack
- Amazing onboarding and continuing education through phData Academy
- Frequent opportunities to grow skills
- Collaborate with the industries brightest talent
- Strong client base
- Approachable and compassionate leadership team
The Needs Improvement
There’s no such thing as a perfect company, and we’re far from perfect. However, we are completely invested in making phData one of the best places to work. Through feedback, surveys, and straight-up listening to our team, we’re always looking for ways to improve.
Our Values
We take our values pretty seriously around here. Our leadership team spent countless hours developing four core values to live and lead the company by. After careful consideration, and feedback from the entire organization, our core values are Psychological Safety, Curiosity, Grit, and Community.
- Psychological Safety - Together, we create a climate where it’s safe to take risks and be vulnerable.
- Curiosity - A deep desire to understand our technology, each other, and our customers.
- Grit - We take creative approaches to design solutions and are dedicated to following through until the problem is solved.
- Community - We appreciate and bring together our different expertise, perspectives, and ideas to come up with better, more well-rounded solutions.
Remote-First
We’re officially a remote-first organization. While we do have a truly spectacular office space in Minneapolis and Bangalore, all employees are welcome to work from home as much or as little as they like. Here’s phData’s official statement on remote-first from COO, Mike Clevland:
“Remote-first means we will allow all current and future phData employees to work remotely (both within the US and India) permanently, but we will continue to maintain our offices in Minneapolis and Bangalore.”
For a full read on our remote-first strategy, we highly encourage you to read our blog post on the topic.
Why Work for a Fast-Growing Consulting Company?
Does the idea of working for a small, fast-growing company worry you a little bit? We understand the fear but hear us out.
When you work for a fast-growing company, you are:
- Meeting new impressive people - we are consistently hiring and growing, so you will always have new, intelligent people to learn from.
- Getting the opportunity to have new and changing roles - growth means we are continuously stepping up and adapting. You grow with us!
- Making room for promotions - because of our growth, we can never have enough leaders to step up and help guide our success.
Working for a consulting company allows you to have:
- Work that is truly valued and important - working on new, emerging technology is truly exciting. Our projects are often the most important thing happening with technology at that company! The work you do makes a huge difference for our customers.
- Days that don't look the same - most jobs get routine and boring. Consulting allows for new people, new challenges, and new technology with each customer.
- Skill building outside of just technology - to grow as a leader and a technologist, you'll need interpersonal, writing, verbal, and even selling skills. Working with our customers allows you to practice those skills and build up competencies.
We’re Hiring
We are actively hiring and looking for talented individuals to join our growing team in a variety of remote roles. Be sure to take a look at our job board to see all of our open positions. If you’d like to get more dirt on what it’s like to work here, feel free to message our employees on LinkedIn or reach out to our recruiting team.
