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Recently FINN business automation engineer Cornelius Schramm and software engineer Leander Peter got together with engineer Julie Chen and growth marketing manager Vasundhara Singh, both from Retool, to talk about their collaboration in building the internal tooling platform that is FINN’s operational hub. You can watch the webinar right here: Any thoughts or feedback? Let us know 😀 The webinar was given by Cornelius Schramm and Leander Peter, and this article was posted by Chris Meyns....

Anyone who had to deal either directly or tangentially with IT administration activities, has most likely tried multiple strategies to minimize the amount of time that the IT Administration team spends on recurring support requests. The number of strategies narrows down substantially, since it’s especially challenging for the IT Administration team to reduce the overhead generated by these requests without compromising on the end-user experience. As much as we try to prevent these recurring support requests from being generated in the first place, we have to accept in the end that they will keep coming, and there are few options to reduce them after a certain point....

The success of the revenue operations department at FINN, and elsewhere, can be defined with three simple words: efficiency. This article will help you to get acquainted with foundational knowledge about Revenue Operations. If you have vast experience in the field already, you can jump right into the section on Revenue Operations at FINN. Let’s go! Revenue Operations: A brief story of efficiency 🚀 Revenue operations, often shortened as RevOps, is the department that consolidates all the non-core activities of the critical growth departments covering the full customer life cycle, which in most instances are marketing, partnerships, sales and customer success....

In late September, my FINN colleague Cornelius Schramm and I gave a keynote presentation at the Nocode Summit 2022, the largest no-code event in Europe. We had been invited to speak at the event by Benoît de Montecler, co-founder of ncScale, the no-code software development lifecycle management tool. The plan was to share FINN’s story of raising $900M (debt and equity) with no-code on the main stage at this major gathering in Paris of over a thousand no-code and low-code professionals and international speakers....

At FINN, we strongly believe in the principle of do it, do it, automate it. If you find yourself doing something manually twice, you should find a way to automate the process. This holds just as true when it comes to the precious details of invoices and financial document processing. Within the FINN Finance team, we’ve recently started using a platform called Rossum that helps us improve the automatic optical character recognition (OCR) of documents....

At FINN we’re big users of open source Airtable alternative NocoDB. We’ve even developed our own version, which we’re calling ‘FINNoco’. So how did our journey with NocoDB all get started, and where are we at now? How FINN got started with NocoDB Let’s go back to the gloomy days of July 2021. At that time, at FINN we still had everything on Airtable. But we were growing so fast, and so we ran into many, many limitations....

Hey, so you managed to scale your business from an early-stage startup to a fast-growing scale-up. This means your tech has grown a lot since. With an ever-growing system, how do you keep an eye on everything and make sure that it is all running and customers are not facing any downtimes or errors? Well, we went through the same phase at FINN, growing from a 30 person startup in 2020 to 350+ people in 2022 and expanding to the US as well....

Applying for a job can be stressful, especially attending interviews. That’s why we published this article to help you engineers out there looking for a job to increase your chances of passing an interview. How FINN does tech recruiting The recruiting process at FINN is made up of at least 4 steps. Broken down, it looks something like this: Based on what is written on a CV, recruiters will determine if a candidate meets the minimum competencies and experience needed for the job....

At FINN, we’ve experienced enormous growth in the last 18 months. We’ve hired numerous talented people, we’ve built a large number of new features, and we’ve put a growing-every-day number of sustainable car subscriptions on German and US roads. In this process, we could have focused more on accessibility (a11y) than we’ve done so far. Now that we have more talent to focus on this aspect of our products, everyone is eager to improve our a11y....

Hello, lovely fellows! My name is Monica, and I have lived my whole life in Cairo until I relocated to Munich this March to start my full-time job as a Frontend Engineer at FINN. In this article, I am going to share with you my whole journey, how it all started, insights into our FINN culture, challenges, and some strategies that helped me adapt faster. Getting the job As a fresh graduate in computer science, my first job requirements were simple: I needed a place where I could work on a real-world project that uses cutting-edge technology, and be flexible enough to allow me to explore a variety of fields until I found my preferred expertise area....