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# Challenges in transforming a multicultural local-only company to a remote-first


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 18, 2024
- **Time:** 13:30–14:00 (30 min)
- **Room:** Airstream (120)
- **Event:** World Congress 2024

## Description

There were a lot of onboarding challenges, professional and personal, but we successfully integrated 15+ nationalities into our engineering organization. 

With the advent of the remote world, we were required to change most of our processes to ensure our team kept its performance correctly. 

In this talk, I will discuss our most significant challenges and the strategies we use to overcome them. I will also discuss the advantages and disadvantages of such a strategy.

During the talk, I will show our struggles, ceremonies, and new processes and give a path for companies to succeed and improve their development pace.

## Speaker

### [Felipe Furlan](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@felipe-furlan)

Jimdo's VP Engineer


## Related talks at this congress

- [Best Practice: How Hygraph finds and hires the best tech talent worldwide](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/117-best-practice-how) — Alexis Seyfried, Gargi Mahapatra
- [Growing Your Team: Strategies for Expansion or Re-Org in Engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/168-growing-your-team) — Alex Ischenko
- [Remote Mob Programming - At home, but not alone](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/47-remote-mob) — Joshua Töpfer
- [Enhancing Developer Experience During Architecture Modernization](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2024/sessions/316-enhancing-developer) — Mauricio Frias, Shailesh Pathak