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The team
Building a good IT team is an exciting challenge, as the success of the project depends to a large extent on the quality of the team. We want TouK people to be more than just programmers. That is why we pay particular attention to the choice of candidates. Later on we care about their development and constant improvement of qualifications.
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Today, our team is composed of over 50 people. It is a group of professionals and at the same time interesting personalities, who make up an efficiently working body.
If you want to join us and carry out remarkable projects together, send us your CV. Current job offers are announced on our website.
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Why is it worth working at TouK?
- TouK’s employees talk about experts-bosses, no ladders or glass walls – about everything they value at their company:
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Cooperation instead of competition
Ula Trzaskowska – at TouK since October 2006. An excellent expert, one of the three female designers/programmers in the male circle. In private, she loves cooking and travelling. She has lived in several Polish cities, but getting to know Warsaw has been so interesting for her that for now she intends to stay here.
„TouK is a small company but continues to grow. And growth means motion. Literally (...)”
„TouK is a small company but continues to grow. And growth means motion. Literally.
One of our operating principles is that we change places, change desks when working on subsequent projects. As a result, every six months I work with “new” people, in another team. Also, new projects mean constantly new tasks. Such an arrangement gives stability but does not leave room for stagnation.
Because TouK is not very big, there are no such negative phenomena as walking over everybody to reach your goals. There is a spirit of cooperation, not competition. All this makes up the TouK atmosphere that I value so much.”
Promotion is not the career ladder
Piotr Burdyło – at TouK since the beginning of 2004. Project Manager on a daily basis, during numerous holidays he sails the seas, explores the underwater world, and tours the continents – so far, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The world beyond the Atlantic remains unexplored. As yet. He also likes to go into the virtual worlds of RPG. In his free time, he sometimes dances the tango and torments his neighbours with his noisy electric guitar. He has earned several medals in the bridge championships of Poland
„The most valuable thing I have learned at TouK is that writing excellent programmes is neither the most important nor the most difficult (...)”
„The most valuable thing I have learned at TouK is that writing excellent programmes is neither the most important nor the most difficult, as such things are learned already at the university - though of course you cannot forget that. It’s much more important to help the customer solve his/her problems, which he/she often finds hard to name or identify. The right approach to the customer has become an essential part of my view of the professional career.
Another advantage of working at TouK is that we work for companies from very different industries – from telecommunications through banks to publishing houses, and the projects carried out are relatively short – they last several months. During the several years of my work, I have had contact with many various customers, which has helped me understand how such companies work and what they need. No corporation or large company with its own IT department will give you such development opportunities. And it’s difficult to get bored...
TouK is a place which creates outstanding development opportunities. But development does not mean a pre-planned climb up the post ladder as in the corporation with its systematised career paths. At TouK, development means acquiring real skills, which immediately translate into the possibility to take responsibility for your own and your colleagues’ actions, for the success of the project, and even for the success of the entire company. At TouK, promotion is not limited by artificial rules set by the HR department; its pace depends on us.”
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Front-line management
Łukasz Kucharski – in the TouK crew since October 2006. When he doesn’t write programmes in JAVA, he loves to run around with a paintball marker or a photo camera loaded with black-and-white film.
„When I came to TouK, the whole company was small enough to fit into three rooms, one of which was called the "basement" because of windows the size of a fifteen-inch screen. Two-thirds of the management worked with us (...)”
„When I came to TouK, the whole company was small enough to fit into three rooms, one of which was called the "basement" because of windows the size of a fifteen-inch screen. Two-thirds of the management worked with us.
Dziś TouK jest znacznie większy, pracujemy w open space, ale szefowie wciąż siedzą dwa biurka dalej. Dobrze jest mieć szefa, który przekazując ci swoje uwagi, może podeprzeć się wieloletnim doświadczeniem. Ciężko przyjmować krytykę od gogusia, który nie ma wiedzy w twojej dziedzinie, a mówi ci, co i jak robić.”
No glass wall
Jakub Nabrdalik – works his tail off as solution architect at TouK since October 2007. His passion is thinking, which he practices by reading ambitious literature as well as playing computer games, board games and RPG. He is also preoccupied by volleyball, sailing, climbing, trekking and salsa.
„The nightmare in the work of any programmer is the lack of influence on the shape of the application he is working on. Sometimes he gets the specification and writes a fragment of an application about which he knows nothing. He does not go beyond his room and he doesn’t get to see the results. It’s different at TouK: I have a great influence on what I’m doing (...)”
„The nightmare in the work of any programmer is the lack of influence on the shape of the application he is working on. Sometimes he gets the specification and writes a fragment of an application about which he knows nothing. He does not go beyond his room and he doesn’t get to see the results. It’s different at TouK: I have a great influence on what I’m doing.
At TouK, the appearance of an application depends on myself. If I have an idea to make an application in a different way, I don’t have to write a request for that, it’s enough to talk about it to the project manager and the team. There is a rule: You’ve got an idea, know a better technology, you know how to use it – just do it. When people have the opportunity to create something new rather than write what they are told, they begin to approach the task in an ambitious and more personal way; they simply put their heart in what they do. They try to make the results of their work really good, not just to fulfil the requirements.
At TouK, the appearance of an application depends on myself. If I have an idea to make an application in a different way, I don’t have to write a request for that, it’s enough to talk about it to the project manager and the team. There is a rule: You’ve got an idea, know a better technology, you know how to use it – just do it. When people have the opportunity to create something new rather than write what they are told, they begin to approach the task in an ambitious and more personal way; they simply put their heart in what they do. They try to make the results of their work really good, not just to fulfil the requirements.The thing which is characteristic of TouK is the large open space. This allows us to share information across the desk or by talking to your colleague, who is just around the corner. There are no glass walls which would divide the management from the rest of the employees. I don’t have to go through the Chinese whispers of the complicated multi-level communication path in order to reach them. This allows for settling efficiently even serious matters which require a quick response.”
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