Fabian Fernandez, CEO of Kaizen Softworks, told InfoNegocios that the search for a new location for their offices took more than a year. "We started as a startup in my partner's father's house, we were running out of space in his house where we were already 17 people working there," he said.
The new offices are located at Presidente Giro and Juan Ramón Gómez, in the Blanqueada area and have 5900 square feet (550m2) distributed in six meeting rooms, an open space of approximately 4300 square feet (400 m2), 6 bathrooms, kitchen, dining room and an internal courtyard with barbecue. "We are looking to make a very relaxed office with meeting rooms, ping pong and common spaces. We like the area of La Blanqueada because the location is tremendously good, we are in the middle of Montevideo where the main avenues meet and that makes any bus drop you off at the door," said Fernandez.
For next year, Kaizen Softworks is already working on a new project that will consist of a "technological hostel". As the company's CEO explained, the aim is to promote IT careers in other cities in the country by working together with educational institutions such as the Technological University of Uruguay (UTEC), the Anima technology school and young programmers (Jovenes a Programar by the Spanish name). "We want to help promote technology careers in other cities in the country because we know there is a need there and because in Montevideo it is sometimes difficult to get talent either because they are employed and well established or because the technical skill level is not good enough for us," explained Fernández.
The project will seek to employ young people from the interior of Uruguay who wish to work for Kaizen Softworks remotely, but who have the availability to stay at the "tech hostel" for one week a month or every two months. In this sense, Fernandez said: "we believe that besides working remotely is convenient, it is so important to get involved and meet people in person, so the idea is to work in the offices one week a month".
Regarding the company's present, Fernandez explained that they are working hard with the US market and that for 6 months it is the only market they are dedicated to and where they expect to continue to grow during 2018. "We are achieving the vision we had when it started which was to create a company made by software developers for software developers. Our goal is to reach twice as many people by the end of 2018, so we're going to have to step on the gas and accelerate," concluded the entrepreneur.
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