Features of team building in IT companies

The most common example of team building in any company is, of course, a trip to the countryside. We have a similar successful experience. Everything is as it should be - 100 km from the city, 10 crates of beer, 10 kg of kebabs, 50 batches to the mafia. Team built, task completed.

But having worked in companies of completely different specializations, you note for yourself some of the special features of an IT company. Firstly, a young team of people with an analytical mindset (the average age of our employees is 24 years), secondly, the population of the male species significantly exceeds the female population, Thirdly, the close relationship of employees with the computer, which is not the last problem on the way of communications within the working team. Also, an IT company, partly due to the above factors, is distinguished by its modernity and flexibility, a free approach to the organization of labor schedule. An example for all was, of course, Google.


Table tennis, a smoking room, coffee trips for lunch, mass congratulations on the birthday of the staff - it's all there, and this has been written here more than once. But the specialization of the company imposes certain imprints on the relationship within the team. How to unite a team of 20 young male IT professionals? The question is open, we are waiting for your suggestions. But I know exactly how to rally half of them. Divide them into terrorists and counter terrorists! Counter Strike - the crown of team building! You may not have bad habits or developed communication skills, but if you are able to punch the head off an opponent from Diesert Eagle from a distance, you are “yours”. Hot debate after the battle, for a glass of beer, finally consolidate success.
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The male team is kept in tone by representatives of the rare female sex. In their presence, the general mood and the number of jokes per unit of time increase dramatically.

There is an internal team building. When communications are established by means of Internet services, for example, via ICQ or VKontakte. Sometimes it's nice to get a link from a colleague to a new clip, or to a video where another jerk breaks his neck, trying to make an impression on the Internet public. Actually, I am not sure that it was necessary to cover this point, since it is partisan, and this “means of communication” is often not advertised to the authorities.

With all these "weaknesses", our specialists cannot be blamed for lack of professionalism or parasitism. The company grows and develops (by the way, it requires 3 programmers, PHP, HTML / JS, MySQL, CSS, preferably CS Source) Yes, Google has already proved the benefit of such “weaknesses” to everyone. The main thing is not to go too far.

How are relationships built within your company?