We've moved into a house in the middle of Cluj-Napoca — 35+ desks, rooms to think in and rooms to argue in, and a garden that has already seen its first barbecue.
We’ve moved, and the reason is the nicest kind of problem to have: the team kept growing, and more and more ofthem kept choosing to come in. Our new home is a house in the heart of Cluj-Napoca — three floors, 35+ desks, a garden at the back and a view over the city from the top.
Software gets built in two different states of mind. Some days are all conversation: a whiteboard, four people, an architecture that isn’t working yet. On others, the most valuable thing a person can do is close a door for three hours.
Most offices force a choice between the two. This one doesn’t — sixteen desks side by side on the first floor for the loud half of the work, smaller offices above for the quiet half. Nobody has to book a room in order to think.
And everything is close. Thirty-five people across three floors means the answer to almost any question is one flight of stairs away, not one calendar invitation.
The kitchen turned out to be the most important room in the building. Lunch together, coffee at eleven, and the ten minutes in which somebody mentions the thing that has blocked them for two days — and the colleague in the next chair has already solved it. That doesn’t happen on a call.
Behind the house there’s a garden, and the terrace opens straight onto it. The first barbecue happened before the last boxes were unpacked, which tells you how this team spends its summer evenings. There’s even a gym in the basement, since we want to encourage our employees to stay healthy.
We work with home office and wouldn’t give it up. It just makes what happens here more visible: people come in because they want to. Loyalty to a place isn’t built from perks and fruit baskets — it’s built from somewhere people are glad to walk into.
That matters to the people we work for, too. Our conference room seats sixteen around one table, with a city terrace next door for the breaks. A client who comes here for a workshop doesn’t get a video window and a shared screen — they get the whole team in one room, the engineers who will write the code included, and someone borrowed for ten minutes because they’re sitting one floor up.
Being able to sit across a table from the people building your software — this week, not next quarter — is a large part of what we mean by nearshore. From Munich, Vienna, London or Zurich it’s a short flight and one hour of time difference. You can come for the day and be home for dinner.
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We've moved into a house in the middle of Cluj-Napoca — 35+ desks, rooms to think in and rooms to argue in, and a garden that has already seen its first barbecue.
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