Bryant students were excited and grateful that employees from Globant spent their afternoon with us yesterday. Our presenter was Mariano Martins, the VP of Delivery for Globant’s office in Buenos Aires. Globant is a mobile and web software development company. They have 39 offices located in 14 countries across the world, including but not limited to: Argentina, India, and the United States. They work interdependently with each office to provide the most efficient and effective products for their clients. They do this by allocating work to different regions depending on the project to foster the best results and an inclusive company environment.
Globant has major clients in a variety of industries to create interactive and sustainable programs for users and employees. A new and popular project that recently came to fruition is Disney Plus. Globant was a key component in the creation of the Disney’s new outlet for TV entertainment. In fact, our presenter himself, Mariano worked on the case directly for four years. In describing this project, Mariano stressed that their goal and vantage point when embarking on a new project is not to change the product itself, but to change the way the customer interacts with it. Hearing this description, I was able to make the connection to Bryant’s IDEA program. The program is a weekend long project completely centered on Design Thinking. Viewing a situation from the consumers point of view allows people to develop solutions that cater directly to the needs of said consumer. The exact program students at Bryant complete is transferred into the real world by the example of Globant’s ideology.
Subsequently to sharing some of their accomplishments as a company, Mariano then proceeded to break down internal or behind the scenes actions of how exactly a project is carried out and organized. Personally, I really appreciated this addition in the presentation. As the majority of students on this experience have yet to intern due to our sophomore stature, we are thirsty to learn the day to day and organizational activities of company’s rather than simply an overview of their mission and accomplishments. We learned that while planning projects, they break down the all the different roles that will need to be included. Then, they break down the project life cycle to see how long/when each role is required in the duration of the project. It is this process that allows managers to delegate responsibilities to their employees accordingly for each project. This allowed me to relate these concepts to the Management 200 class everyone has or will taken, where we needed to organize a project of our own. This knowledge from the employees of Globant, granted the Bryant students the opportunity to compare our strategies with a success company’s.
Lastly, an employee from their Communications department, Eileen Horcada, spoke to us about the company culture as well as bringing us on an office tour to see this culture in action. Globant prioritizes a fun, inclusive, hardworking yet stress-free environment. They believe if employees are motivated and relaxed when coming to work, they will be highly productive throughout their work day. Each employee has objectives they are required to meet, and as long as those are completed, free time and breaks are allowed to be taken at the discretion of the employee. This was emphasized on the office tour when we saw a ball pit that meetings can be held in, a music room, and a “chill room” that includes video games, food, ping pong tables, etc. Additionally, the offices themselves are structured with purpose. There are no walls between employee desks in an effort to foster the inclusive, collaborative environment.
In conclusion, this business visit allowed for the Bryant students to get an organic look into Globant. They shared information about the company that specially tied to the concepts, we, as sophomore students are most curious about. It is for this reason that this was the first business visit where a student asked “Are you hiring?” Every one of us were inspired and excited to hopefully one day be a part of a company like Globant, or maybe even Globant themselves.
SIE 2020, Latin America 