06 - Brainly builds the biggest student community to share and explore knowledge. A conversation with Katarzyna Ciesek-Dziubiak, Head of People and Culture.

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Brainly inspires students to share and explore knowledge in a collaborative community.

Yeah, I think in, in a company like, like Brainly, cultural intelligence is so important and we talked about curiosity and how one of their values is stay curious.

And I bet that any startup out there or scale-up like that this has 400 people, and they're still growing. They need people that are constantly curious, because by being curious, they are actually coming up with new ideas. They are being more agile and they are actually challenging that status quo. And only by challenging the status quo of let's say education system in, in their case, you can be so disruptive and they are a platform that changed disrupted the educational system in a way.

Can you imagine. Knowing and understanding how the education system is in 35 countries, 35 countries, no way. I mean, on a larger scale, you can even be consulting the ministries of education because you gathered so much data about that particular country. And, you know, at the ground level, what those students struggle with, that you can gather this data, you have huge amount of data.

You have volunteers, you have all these guys that really understand the. The problems and can go to those governments and to, to, to the decision-makers it's, it's just, it's just amazing. And also attire that there are people that they just help, like they just want to help kids, the volunteers. Yeah.

Yeah, exactly. And I think the whole platform in a way is that's the main product, right? Like the volunteers at the end of they're

Creating the content in a sense. Yeah. And I also liked something that seemed very logical. It was with the hiring process. She talked about demo days and it, it, it seems like such an obvious thing to do.

But it was interesting that she focused on during these demo days or demo week to not only. Have that potential employee to be working on a assignment or, or a project and, and seeing if they're able to complete it, but also seeing if how they approach the project, how they're thinking, how they're communicating of those things, giving you insight into how good of a fit that person can be within the organization.

Yeah. And definitely the books were like agile people. I think it's something that people should look up if they are in HR or they want to go in HR or they just simply have a startup now, or there are managers that will make people understand how to run this operation side in a smaller organizational.

Scale-up not necessarily this big corporate. So that was a good, a good learning, and we need to translate the, the name of the book that she recommended with the climbing and mindset. All right, well, that was a good one.

In a company like Brainly, where culture is so important, the cultural intelligence of employees is essential. By staying curious and constantly challenging the status quo, employees are able to come up with new ideas that can disrupt the educational system. The hiring process at Brainly focuses on finding candidates who are not only capable of completing an assignment but also how they approach and think about the project. This allows for a better understanding of how the candidate would fit within the company.

The books "Agile People" and "Climbing MINDset" are recommended for those in HR or management positions to learn more about running a successful organization.

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