VALD Benefits FAQ

Pros

A place where you feel welcome and valued! There are so many great things about working at Vald, to list some of them: - Great diversity. There are colleagues from different cultures, gender, background and age groups. - Highly skilled colleagues - Everyone is very approachable and keen to help. (I learn something new every day). - The management have monthly private meetings with you to provide and receive feedback. - Parties, team-building activities and awards throughout the year. (Including olympics where all overseas employees come to brisbane for a week of work and fun activities). -Career growth. (Since I have joined Vald, I have seen many people being promoted) - The company is open to learn new processes or approaches to improve outcomes and communication between teams. - International trip opportunities to visit clients. - Breakfast and lunch, every day a different meal, prepared by 2 in-house chefs - even if you have a special dietary, they adapt the menu of the day to suit you. - in-house barista. Extremely friendly and always know how you like your coffee. - In-house gym. You can use the facility for free (before work, during lunch break or after work). - In-house R&D/Physio clinic. Which you can access and test products and have real feedback in real time. - In-house masseuse twice a week for a very affordable price (or for free if you have private health insurance). - At Vald, you receive not one or two, but FIVE (!!!) different branded t-shirts and a choice of a hoodie or zipped jacket for free, which is great, so you don't need to worry about doing the washing many times during the week.

Cons

Parking is a bit tricky, as the company is growing and for being located in a very busy area, there are not many parkings available (for those who prefer to drive) - unless you are happy to use public transport (train station wak distance and bus stop a couple of steps away)

Advice to Management

Keep up with the great work you have done throughout the years. Being transparent and honest is always the best way to go. Unfortunately, not everyone can accept feedback.

Pros

- great collaborative culture - ability to make a difference in an emerging industry (HealthTech) - huge amount of employee benefits, breakfast and lunch, social events - modern workplace with nearby subsidised parking

Cons

- VALD isn't for everyone - you will be challenged and it isn't a place to cruise from 9-5 - scaling quickly which means you need to be comfortable with change and ability to adapt to the growth

Advice to Management

The leaders at VALD communicate a vision that is super inspiring and motivating. Communication is a key motivator and this needs to be fostered as the company scales to ensure the culture remains or evolves along with the growth.

Pros

- Good mentoring (gave me skills that I still use now at my current job when mentoring other developers) - Excellent tech stack - .NET/Typescript/React which is used widely in the industry - Well established development structure since the last year or so - have proper lead developers and an engineering manager in place - Given it's an established startup moving onto medium sized business now, there are plenty of new projects to work on, so you will always be moving onto different projects to challenge yourself in whatever project you do - Given the industry is sports tech, job security is quite good, given the current climate of redundancies - Food was great and plentiful, I can't seem to get make my own hollandaise sauce for the life of me as well as the VALD chefs do. You can claim this as a food allowance during EOFY tax time and it also saves you time from making your own food!

Cons

- Parking is an absolute pain unless you come early in the morning. However, if you are a developer, you can work remote quite comfortably nowadays so it's not a big problem if you live far away - Might be difficult to get promoted upwards in management now as they already have an established hierarchy of development leadership - Technical debt but I do believe this is now being addressed with the new structure. It has improved in the last year so this is gradually being addressed

Pros

A place where you feel welcome and valued! There are so many great things about working at Vald, to list some of them: - Great diversity. There are colleagues from different cultures, gender, background and age groups. - Highly skilled colleagues - Everyone is very approachable and keen to help. (I learn something new every day). - The management have monthly private meetings with you to provide and receive feedback. - Parties, team-building activities and awards throughout the year. (Including olympics where all overseas employees come to brisbane for a week of work and fun activities). -Career growth. (Since I have joined Vald, I have seen many people being promoted) - The company is open to learn new processes or approaches to improve outcomes and communication between teams. - International trip opportunities to visit clients. - Breakfast and lunch, every day a different meal, prepared by 2 in-house chefs - even if you have a special dietary, they adapt the menu of the day to suit you. - in-house barista. Extremely friendly and always know how you like your coffee. - In-house gym. You can use the facility for free (before work, during lunch break or after work). - In-house R&D/Physio clinic. Which you can access and test products and have real feedback in real time. - In-house masseuse twice a week for a very affordable price (or for free if you have private health insurance). - At Vald, you receive not one or two, but FIVE (!!!) different branded t-shirts and a choice of a hoodie or zipped jacket for free, which is great, so you don't need to worry about doing the washing many times during the week.

Cons

Parking is a bit tricky, as the company is growing and for being located in a very busy area, there are not many parkings available (for those who prefer to drive) - unless you are happy to use public transport (train station wak distance and bus stop a couple of steps away)

Advice to Management

Keep up with the great work you have done throughout the years. Being transparent and honest is always the best way to go. Unfortunately, not everyone can accept feedback.

Pros

- Working at a tech company focused on making a difference to people's health is very satisfying - Great people to work with - you'd happily sit down and have lunch with anyone - High quality work is valued - Fast paced and flexible, focused on solving problems for clients - Subsidised lunch and coffee makes such a difference. Work from home and the first coffee of the day costs more than my lunch at VALD. The quality of the food is beyond good for the number of plates served per day.

Cons

- The fast paced nature isn't for everyone, and can take a little bit of time to adapt to. Once you do, you thrive with the pro's above.

Advice to Management

Continue to evolve the company as you have during my time with VALD. It's not the same as it was 3 years ago, and it won't be the same in 3 years time.