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Welcome to your monthly round-up in the world of documentation from the Tech Writing team at FINN! Content highlights June saw three entire articles go live, courtesy of our wonderful FINNies 🥳 Driving the future of mobility with an AI Hackathon at FINN From tech hypes to autonomous leadership: an interview with FINN CTO Andreas Stryz Running Steampipe on AWS Fargate At FINN, we believe in being customer-first. That applies to external and internal customers....

Are you using Steampipe to query your cloud services, such as an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment? Are you using the results for reporting, security checks, governance or other important tasks in your organization? And are you tired of having to run those queries from your local machine or an AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance? In this blog post we’ll delve into running Steampipe directly from inside AWS itself, without setting up an EC2 instance....

Starting out in engineering can be both thrilling and a bit daunting. How to distinguish one tech hype from the next? What to do with those tricky career decisions that will inevitably come your way? Fear not, we’re here to help! We sat down with Andreas Stryz, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and co-founder of FINN, who has extensive experience as an engineer and in technical leadership. He shares his thoughts on the power of giving autonomy, the impact of no-code tools, and focusing on the tech you love....

How do you get a bunch of disruptive minds together in a (virtual) room to build innovative AI applications? Organize a hackathon! During the FINN feat. AI Hackathon held on May 30, participants embarked on a one-day challenge to generate measurable business impact by leveraging AI to solve problems. Solutions developed ranged from automated vehicle damage recognition and GPT-4-powered dynamic car pricing to a bot to answer queries about vehicles directly from Slack....

Introduction Make (formerly ‘Integromat’) is a highly functional low-code tool that can help you complete complex tasks, quickly. Low-code, and Make in particular, are incredible tools for rapidly creating a proof-of-concept (PoC) of new processes and iterating on existing ones. It can increase your organization’s product velocity by an unbelievable factor, especially when starting from a base of zero automation. It is the not-quite-so-secret sauce of how we at FINN managed to get to $100 million ARR in just 3....

Talent acquisition is a super critical function for any organisation that aims to attract and retain top talent in an increasingly competitive marketplace! The traditional approach to talent acquisition has been very labour-intensive and time-consuming, involving daily manual screening of resumes, conducting interviews, and evaluating candidates based on both subjective and objective criteria. However, advancements in AI are creating massive disruptions to the way organisations approach talent acquisition, providing a more efficient and effective way to identify the best fit and best add candidates for the job....

On the first day of my six-month internship in Product Management at FINN, I came in only to find that the team I would be joining didn’t have a full time Product Manager (PM) yet. So, would I be happy to fulfil the PM role myself for a few months? I hadn’t expected to get the chance of having so much responsibility in an internship… 🧐 From business administration to product Hi, I’m Paula 👋 and I have a background in business....

At FINN, we are determined to build the most popular car subscription platform. We are on a promising path and hit $100 million annualized recurring revenues (ARR) in 2022, in our third year of existence. Supporting this immense growth we need technology. But as the company changed so much in only three years, our technological needs changed just as much. As my colleague Ish Zafar outlined in his article No-code isn’t scalable, we were facing a range of technical challenges that were a loud cry for action....

Everyone has an idea of what tech recruitment is. But much like how people only like photographs of themselves that they look good in, tech recruitment tends to vary from stakeholder to stakeholder and organisation to organisation. Let’s start at the very beginning: technical recruitment is the process of hiring technical talent for organisations. This process can include recruiting for roles such as engineers, developers, as well as data scientists. Moreover, it can encompass both internal recruitment teams, external service providers, and individual headhunters, depending on the nature, urgency and level of the roles in question....

A few weeks ago, a visitor to our Munich office asked me how to hire and retain good engineers. It’s a tough question to answer because there is no step-by-step plan to convince people to spend the majority of their daily waking hours on your project or company. Especially if they should be invested in it for a few years. What I learned from recruiting and being a People Partner for multiple start-ups and big companies, is that sometimes a great company culture or a competitive salary doesn’t yet by itself lead to accepted offers and happy colleagues....