Priya Sinha, Head of Product Delivery at Redgate Software sits down with us to talk...
Redgate is the leading provider of software solutions for Compliant Database Devops. Our solutions make life easier for development, operations, and IT leaders by solving the database challenges in delivering software at speed. We’ve specialised in database software for over 20 years and our products now help 800k people across the globe, in every type of organisation from small businesses to 91% of the Fortune 100.
Webiste: https://www.red-gate.com/
Business Sector: Computer Software
HQ Location: Cambridge, UK
Office Locations: Cambridge,UK; Pasadena, CA; Austin, TX; Berlin,Germany; Vancouver, Canada; Brisbane, Australia
Number of Employees: 580
Founders: Simon Galbraith / Neil Davidson
CEO: Jakub Lamik
It's easy to get distracted from what really matters, so our values remind and guide us to do the right things for our users, our teams, and for Redgate.
We're reasonable
We treat everyone as we would want to be treated ourselves, even when the circumstances are difficult.
We’re ingeniously simple
Our best products and services are ingeniously simple. The same goes for how we work internally. We work best when we don’t overcomplicate things.
We do our best work in teams
We continually improve when we make the most of everyone’s expertise. The company is more important than the team and the team is more important than the
individual
Don’t be an asshole
No matter how smart you are, or how good you are at narrowly-defined tasks, there is no room for you here if you’re an asshole
Application:
Tell us about yourself, your skills and experience, and talk about why you’d like to work at Redgate. Include a CV, or a link to your LinkedIn page, and if you'd like to show some of your work, attach your portfolio or point us to Stack Overflow or GitHub.
Assessments:
We’ll acknowledge your application straight away, review it and keep you updated on your progress. We might also email an assessment to complete, or invite you for a brief telephone interview. If we don’t think you’re suitable we’ll tell you why. We won’t let you down, we’ll try and help you. Our assessments focus on how well you’re able to do the job – we won’t ask you to solve arbitrary logic puzzles.
Interviews:
You’ll be talking to different people, you may well meet people you’ll be working with, and we’ll allow time for you to ask questions. We don’t have a dress code at Redgate, by the way, so dress in whatever makes you comfortable.
Offer:
If we think you’d be great at Redgate, we’ll make an offer and iron out any details like relocation issues. If we don’t think you’ll fit in right away, we’ll tell you why. Some people have taken our advice and come back a year later and got a job.
At Redgate we're not yet as diverse as we'd like to be, and we're working on it.
What we're doing to improve:
Recruitment
Over the last eighteen months we've sought out diverse candidates from a variety of new sources outside of our traditional hiring paths, like Makers Academy. We’ll continue seeking out more new recruitment paths.
Flexible hybrid working
As a company, we have always believed it's really important to strike a balance between work and home life. For most roles, Redgate now adopts a flexible-hybrid model which means that people will typically work flexibly between a remote and office environment.
These evolving ways of working are key to helping Redgate to attract and retain a diverse workforce in the future, whilst also providing as much choice and flexibility as possible around childcare and caring responsibilities to help everyone balance work and family life.
Women in leadership
We have some great examples of women developing their careers at all levels across Redgate, which has contributed to the 13% year-on-year increase of the percentage of women in the upper middle pay quartile. Women also represent 50% of our Executive Team in the upper pay quartile, each of whom have been promoted internally after progressing in their previous roles.
Family-friendly workplace
Alongside flexible hybrid working, Redgate also offers enhanced paternity, maternity and shared parental pay. We offer additional support such as maternity coaching, where anyone going on maternity leave also receives support from an external coach before, during and after their leave.
This helps us to retain talented female Redgaters once they have a family and it also supports our focus on employee wellbeing.
Enhanced pension payments for women on maternity leave
Women in our Engineering internships
We partner with organizations such as SheCanCode to help progress women in STEM careers.
Our Software Engineering and Product Design internships are actively promoted as widely as possible to widen our reach. In 2021, 25% of our engineering interns were women, up from an average of 17% in previous years.
Diversity events
Creating a diverse environment is the responsibility of individuals just as much as the company - so we hold awareness and education events to make sure everyone in the company is informed and able to make a difference, including:
- Ada Lovelace Day workshop
- Diversity Lightning Talks
- Sponsorship of DevelopHER awards
- Sponsorship of the Women in Tech group at PASS
Mental health
We give everyone at Redgate access to the resources they need to look after their mental health and be aware of each other’s needs.
Holidays - 25 days
Flexible working
Pension scheme
Health care
Life insurance
Maternity & Paternity leave
Volunteering opportunites
Mental health support
Food in the office
Income protection 
Paid sabbatical 
Training & development
Travel insurance
Medical insurance
