When you’re an experience-hungry college kid, landing an internship in your field of interest is like winning the lottery. You get in there, show ‘em what you’ve got, absorb everything like a sponge, and pray they’ll eventually offer you a full-time gig (or at least give you a killer recommendation). It’s easy to see why [...]
I had the pleasure to sit next to David Byrd, CEO of the Y of Greater Kansas City, during dinner. His staff recommended a restaurant called Seasons 52. Imagine dim lighting, stone-cut fireplaces, and wooden paneled floors. Every item on the menu is 475 calories or below, including the crab cakes and filet! I was [...]
Alice: Where I come from, people study what they are not good at in order to be able to do what they are good at. Mad Hatter: We only go around in circles in Wonderland, but we always end up where we started. Would you mind explaining yourself? Alice: Well, grown-ups tell us to find [...]
2011 ushered in a lot of change at Daxko. A couple of the most significant changes were the addition of the Triangle 2 team, now known as Daxko T2 Consulting, and the launch of Impact Services to assist our customers in the direct execution of their mission. With these changes came considerable growth, and with [...]
“We tend to run “FedEx” with a fairly open format where you can do whatever you want as long as you can somehow relate it to our products.” – Atlassian Last week, my company gave us an exciting opportunity: 5 days of work on a project related to our business. Apparently, they’ve done something like [...]
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February 27, 2012
Posted In: Life at Daxko, Professional Development, Talent, Technology, Workplace
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You may have heard that we’re kicking off our first annual Daxko Lab Days this week. Wondering what that is? I asked the head organizer, Will S., for the full scoop… WHO: All Daxko software engineers have the opportunity to pick one of nine different projects planned to work on. We estimate that almost everyone will participate. [...]
Recently we have posted quite a few articles regarding our company’s annual kickoff. We talked about the Go-Game, Top 10 Kick-Off Takeaways and a Kickoff Recap. Check out the posts if you haven’t read them yet. With all of this talk around Kickoff, we would be remised if we didn’t recognize the 2012 Achiever’s Club [...]
… Join the Daxko Nation Software Engineering Team. At Daxko, we love to eat. A lot. Within about 10 feet of my desk I see homemade fudge, cheese straws, strawberry cake, cupcakes, bowls of candy (including Fun Dip), pretzels and a sausage log. Yes, sausage log. But about five minutes ago I smelled the most [...]
At Daxko, we believe in doing our research and pride ourselves on knowing our customers and markets very well. Of course, we also know our internal “customers” and their process/tool challenges very well. In accumulating this knowledge, we have generated a million ideas of things we could do to capture the imagination of the market [...]
My first couple of weeks at Daxko, I have had a chance to chit chat with so many different team members while my morning coffee is brewing in Dax Park, working hard with the Zoo Crew for Impact Day, shadowing Impact Services (who has great Part-Time MET positions available), weekly Family Lunch, Annual Family Tailgate, [...]
