As of December 2nd, Teet Raudsep has stepped into his new role as CEO of Primend Group. To help you get to know him better, we asked Teet a few questions about his journey, leadership approach, and personal passions.
OUR PEOPLE
Our people at Primend are united by a passion to make businesses more successful. Our team includes everyone from experienced system architects and project managers, all the way to licencing experts and service talents. Together, we can also develop the most complex IT solutions and find new smart options for how to achieve business goals with the help of technology while making our customers’ lives simpler and more convenient.
Meet our team
OUR SPIRIT AND VALUES
Our story started with the courage to do things differently. There were only four friends and a windowless office room. A common understanding of the best service, respectful competition and work that should also be fun!
10 years later, we operate in all three Baltic countries, and our advantage, in addition to the best IT experts, is the ability to offer equally good service in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - on the same principles and bases. And work is still fun!
Today, over 100 Primendians belong to the Primend community. And we continue to grow.
How did we get here?
Behind our story is every Primendian, who we have supported with both trust and knowledge. Primend's culture is shaped daily by our four core values, which we have formulated together with the people of Primend. If you feel connected to our values and consider them similar to your own, you could very likely be one of the members of our community.
OUR VALUES
Customer First
We are crafting solutions that meet the customer’s needs.
We are sharing our best know-how and practices.
We are building customer relationships that last.
Results-driven
We make our goals to become the results.
We are the experts of IT and we are rocking it every day.
We advise customers to find the most reasonable solutions.
Teamwork Oriented
We are polite and professional.
We are seeing challenges from a positive and optimistic angle.
We are communicative and helpful.
We take responsibility in creating a good environment around us.
Accountability
We keep our word and do what is promised.
We are finishing what we have started.
We take responsibility for the topics that are in our focus.
WE GROW AND LEARN
We learn something new every day at Primend, to help hundreds of companies operating in the Baltics grow and develop. Development and learning are part of our DNA, because it just cannot be otherwise. When you join Primend, we expect the same from you.
Development ladder
As a Primendian, you know exactly where and how you can develop further. But you can choose your own path. We create a career path for each Primendian according to their preferences and help them grow and learn. We enable paid learning days where you can focus on acquiring new knowledge without distraction. We conduct cooperation and career development talks at least twice a year to support your progress. We measure our success by how many of the Primendians have progressed on the development ladder during the year.
Primend TALKS & Trainers Club
We believe there is power in sharing knowledge. Whether it's investing or painting, security solutions for cloud services or creating Power Platform applications.
The Primend Trainers' Club unites people who wish to pass on knowledge. We value their contribution very much, which is why we have created additional benefits for all internal trainers.
New beginnings
There are dozens of Primendians in our ranks, for whom Primend is the first job in the IT field. In addition to common values, they are all united by the desire to learn and develop. Our contribution is to encourage and support because we know that skills can be developed. We recruit people, not skills.
The world is a global village
We do not look at learning narrowly and only professionally but feel that it is also a combination of personal development and discovering of the world. If you feel that you want to work in another country, learn something completely new or go and come back instead, we will do our best to make it all possible.
OUR WORKPLACE IS WHERE PRIMENDIANS ARE
We make working flexible and help to match the place of work with your place of residence.
HOW WE RECRUIT
Our recruitment is simple and fast. We start from the fact that we primarily recruit people, not skills. We respect the time of people who apply to Primend and contribute to providing feedback throughout the competition.
But what happens after you've shared your CV with us?
1. Let's get to know each other
First, we will review your CV and cover letter. If we see a fit, we will arrange a short (video) conversation to get a mutual idea of whether the offered role and Primend as an employer could suit you.
2. Challenge yourself
For certain positions, we assign candidates homework or conduct skill/personality tests. As a rule, these are simple and short exercises, because we value your time.
3. Meeting the manager
We will introduce Primend to you in more detail and we expect you to introduce yourself. Your future manager will also participate in the conversation. We will get an idea of your skills and experience, as well as your values. A part of the meeting will be an office tour and you will meet people you could work with. By that time, it could be clear from both sides whether we click or not.
4. Welcome, new primendian!
Now it is up to you whether you will join us to conquer the IT mountains. We will send you a job offer on which you can give your feedback. The offer includes all benefits, main duties, and information regarding work and additional bonuses.
Career opportunities
If there is currently no suitable job advertisement posted, please let us know about your interest at cv@primend.com, and we will get in touch with you at the earliest opportunity.
INTERNSHIP
Primendians have said that Primend is the best place to start your IT career. This is so, because many of today's managers and top experts got into Primend thanks to our internship program. We do everything to ensure that the internship offers an experience and an opportunity to test yourself. In addition, we offer additional benefits to all Primend’s trainees:
- Internship fee
- Reimbursement of the telephone bill
- Personal training program
- Exciting team and company events
- Personal tutor and mentor
- Development and collaboration talks for goal setting
- Free parking and all benefits in the office
Are you interested in internship experience at Primend?
Let us know about your interest at cv@primend.com and we will contact you as soon as possible. Please note that we will conduct preliminary interviews with all interns, and if necessary, group work to find out mutual suitability.
LIFE IN PRIMEND
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Benefits
In Primend, your salary will be in accordance with your position and the market conditions. A very well located office with sustainable principles offers coffee, even with oat milk. Soft drinks if you want. You will have a hoodie and slippers, with your name on them actually. Good and high-quality tools. Fruits and a rally chair. Yes, it's all true!
In addition to the obvious, we have created benefits that support your well-being and health more broadly, because we believe that we have a big role to play in supporting the balance and well-being of your work and personal life.
Exciting events for the team and the whole company
100% compensation for sick days
Additional vacation days (Incredible Leave)
Paid extra vacation days for important life events
Remote working option and support both in Estonia and abroad
Events and services that support physical and mental health
Company’s shares for key people with significant contributions
Development ladder with paid study days
Meaningful internal trainings and the opportunity to be a member of the Primend Trainers' Club
OUR STORIES
Meet Tadas, our Sales Manager at Primend Lithuania—the guy who, like the rest of us, was just a little too late to jump on the Bitcoin bandwagon.
This is Mardo, a Power BI expert at Primend. Want to know what's his story? Read more here!
This is Dace, who's about to hit 4-year mark with Primend in October and here’s a little story about her.
This year signifies Joosep's fifth anniversary as the Head of Sales at Primend. Come and explore his journey!
This year marks the fifth year at Primend for our Employee Experience Specialist Marion. Join us in reading about her incredible journey with Primend.
As you all well know, nothing happens without a reason and there is a perfectly good explanation for everything. Here's a history of Primend alpacas.
Kadi began her user support internship at Primend in early February 2019. “My job interview wasn’t formal at all; in fact, we just chatted with Rene and Svea while sitting on the windowsill,” she says, thinking back on that time.
I think Primend is a super good place not just to work but have a second family, and every person should understand and appreciate it and do their best. I think it’s maybe this stubbornness, patience and motivation, and then really sky is the limit. With Primend there really are no limits.
I was faced with the dilemma of whether to become a road worker, a welder, or IT specialist (in Kevin’s family of 7 children, all of these three occupations are represented – ed.). I initially opted for road work, but I didn’t like it and then I went to study IT.
This is the short version of our history. We invite you on a walk down memory lane, to get us all up to date and give an insight into the essence of Primend. And here they are, our fantastic four: Toomas, Aleksei, Rene and Tõnis. Yes, they might cringe at that title and may prefer not to be set on a pedestal, but they are the four pillars of us. So let them tell the story.