Career

1. Work at ababa.tech is 99% remote. Every now and then we meet up in Kaunas or Vilnius to celebrate or do something fun together, but basically everyone works remotely.
2. The working hours really are flexible. Nobody checks when you start or finish work. Some of us start at 6:30 and finish at 15:00, others start at 13:00 and finish at 21:00.
3. Pay rises happen almost every month. The career system ababa built lets employees raise their salary and their level every month.
4. 90% of the work is solo, 10% with the team. We skip pointless meetings, so there is more time left for code. Meetings take about 3–4 hours a week.

OMG, naughty ababa gives out no perks????

Ever walked into the office kitchen to find some exotic pineapples that send you straight to the 💩? We think that is a bit silly – everyone wants different things, so there is no point ordering the same stuff for all. That is why we turned all the perks into 💵, a bonus for every ababer. What bonus, and what is it made of?

Once a month, every employee gets a bonus on top of their salary – €90 net:

1. Education budget – €15
2. Team building – €10
3. Gym – €20
4. Commute – €10
5. Tools – €20
6. Snacks – €5
7. Lunch “on us” – €7
8. Birthday present – €3

That makes €1080 net a year, kind of a junior’s 13th salary.

You decide what is better: extra €, or an eggplant in the office ☠️

Missing something reasonable? Let us know and we will add it 🫶

Mentor dividends:

But wait, there’s more! Remember the “business from scratch” hype? ababa has a business like that too – you do nothing and still get paid. How??

Mentors get 2% of the tasks their mentee completes. A mentor trains their mentee, and every time the mentee finishes a task, dividends roll in for the mentor. E.g. if a task is worth €100 and the mentee does it, the mentor gets 2 euros. This bonus is paid once a month together with the salary.

At ababa there are no yearly or half-yearly performance reviews. Performance reviews happen all the time, 24/7, in real time, non-stop, wow.

Every employee has their own score (MMR). An employee’s level and salary are worked out from their MMR. There are 21 levels right now (from bronze 5 to diamond 5). Once a month (later it will be every day), the employee’s MMR is recalculated, and if they reach the next level, they rank up and get more 💵.

MMR depends on various metrics, e.g. how fast you code a task, how many bugs you leave behind and how severe those bugs are. And also how complex the task is.

We think this system is fairer than setting pay by years worked, some knowledge tests or feedback from colleagues. Long story short: if you code well, your salary will grow much faster than at other IT companies, hehe.

1. Holidays – at ababa holidays follow the Labour Code. That is 2 days a month, but every employee can go up to 5 working days into the minus.
2. Everyone works on Linux – development is simply slower on other operating systems.
3. Everyone works on every project – at ababa nobody is tied to particular projects. All ababers are all-rounders who can do everything.
4. Everyone works with one stack – the same stack everywhere makes it easier to reuse components between projects.