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About The Organization

HERE Technologies Private Limited is recognized among India's Best Companies to Work For 2019. Every year, Great Place to Work® identifies India's 100 Best Companies to Work For (with employee strength more than 500) through an objective and rigourous workplace culture assessment process.

HERE is a leader in mapping and location technology. They enable rich, real-time location applications and experiences for consumers, vehicles, enterprises and cities. By partnering with world-leading automakers, they are powering 4 out of 5 in-car navigation systems .

Company Size

4233 Employees

Industry

Information Technology

Why HERE Technologies Private Limited is a Great Place to Work?

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HERE Technologies Private Limited has successfully created a Great Place to Work FOR ALL their employees as they have excelled on the 5 dimensions that are a hallmark of a High-Trust, High-Performance Culture™ – Credibility, Respect, Fairness, Pride and Camaraderie. In a rigorous assessment process conducted by the Great Place to Work® Institute, HERE Technologies Private Limited met the minimum criteria on the Trust Index© Employee Survey, on the consistency of experience across all demographics and on the Culture Audit© People Practices Framework, to clear the first level i.e. getting Great Place to Work-Certified™.

Great Place to Work® is considered the ‘Gold Standard’ in workplace culture assessment and recognition.

As a certified organization, HERE Technologies Private Limited became eligible to be considered among 'India's Best Companies to Work For 2019' – a list that features the 'Best of the Best’. The process of identifying India's Best Companies to Work For is based purely on the assessment findings and does not involve any jury or opinion based criteria.

Culture Snapshot
HERE Technologies leverages its vision and values to create a workplace which is value based and Inspiring and offers exceptional practices in professional development.

This page highlights more about the work culture of the organization, selected best people practices, the vision of the leadership and glimpses of employee life.

Read through to find out what makes HERE Technologies Private Limited a Great Workplace.

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Great Place to Work-Certified™ from April 2019 - March 2020. Certified for 3 years in a row!

India's Best Companies to Work For 2019

India’s 50 Best Workplaces in IT & IT-BPM 2018

India's 15 Best Workplaces for Women 2018

Best People Practices

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I Belong HERE

Feelings embeded in the organization drives better employee engagement and HERE Technologies Pvt Ltd has a good initiative for the same. Their campaign "I belong HERE" reinforces that everyone feels welcomed, valued and has a strong sense of belonging at HERE. “I belong HERE” works on the ideology that all employees can freely speak up, share their opinions and perspectives and their contributions are well recognized. This simple step can go a long way in instilling a feeling of trust in the employees.

Different teams within the organization, all leading their respective fields of work and collaborating on a single product. Different ways, the process enable decent exposure to all kinds of work.

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Leaders Speak

Edzard Overbeek

CEO, HERE Technologies Private Limited

1. What are the key foundational pillars of the culture at your organization?
We are a values-based organization, and our Core Values guide our decision-making and actions to ensure we create a unified, fast-changing and a highly productive work environment needed in a true platform company. Our vision – to enable an Autonomous World for everyone – requires us to become the trusted partner to bring this new paradigm shift to life, to everyone’s benefit. It’s for that reason that trust, integrity and respect define our engagements with colleagues, our partners and our customers. Our leaders role-model our values to help drive our culture, and we take great pride in the fact that we are nurturing an inclusive environment that celebrates diversity and a sense of belonging.
Our values:
• Be Bold - Act with eagerness and fearlessness to deliver game-changing products that make the
world better.
• Learn Fast - Be responsive and flexible to outrun the break-neck pace of emerging technologies.
• Be True - Engage our partners, our customers and one another with trust, integrity and respect.
• Give Back- Embrace the responsibility to safeguard the environment and give back to society.
• Win Together- One team united; made greater by the sum of our passion and talent.

2. What have been some of the business benefits experienced by your organization as an outcome of creating a great workplace?
We are a data-driven company and while anecdotally we can share many stories about how our values show up in teams’ everyday interactions, we know that focusing on a great workplace contributes to our employees’ engagement. And we do not take this lightly: we take their “pulse” every quarter with an online survey to measure our progress, given our company - as any tech company - is in a continuous state of adapting to a fast-changing business environment. We put the power of the engagement data into the hands of every manager, every quarter. As a result, we have created a high-performing culture that empowers employees to take decisions and excel at their individual tasks. This culture of excellence has also helped build a highly engaged workforce, which allows the organization and systems to mature faster, yielding efficiencies and business impact gains.

3. What were the biggest roadblocks that you faced on your journey of creating a great workplace and what were the key success factors in turning those around?
HERE Technologies became an independent company in December 2015. Previously, we were a business unit within Nokia that was comprised of several acquired companies that ultimately formed HERE Technologies. Emerging out of the Nokia culture, the India team had the basic HR structures and policies; however, it was still a comparatively young entity with limited local management bandwidth and maturity. The challenge for the team was orchestrating great people practices and then empowering and building confidence in local management to drive those changes. When HERE became independent of Nokia and I joined the company, I communicated our new strategy to become a true platform company. Early in that process, I realized how important it was for us to find a unique identity (building one brand) and culture to transform us into that type of company, instead of just merging the many different existing cultures. So we did the hard work. We rolled up our sleeves and did an intensive culture audit, and the resulting data helped define our values. From there we worked to instil every system and process – like the performance management process, quarterly leader/employee conversations and leader engagement – with our new ways of working and our values. Key to our success was the validation of a data- and employee-driven approach, as well as clearly defined behaviors for creating a successful way to work together. Our people are the single most important factor in creating a highly energized and empowered workplace.

4. How has your association with Great Place to Work® helped your business and strategic goals?
I am so proud of our India teams and this recognition has created greater visibility of their work within the company. It has improved employee morale, even more, provided a universal benchmark to help improve our practices and created an external employer brand presence. Many successful programs incubated in this team, and have been rolled out corporate-wide—from hiring practices to training, and engagement programs. We are attracting top talent because our employees are the best brand ambassadors. Their enthusiasm and passion to help realize our very bold vision are contagious, and that helps us to grow, attract and retain the best talent possible.

Kelley Steven-Waiss

EVP, Chief Human Resources Officer, HERE Technologies Private Limited

1. What have been the key success factors that have helped make your organization a great workplace?
As the CHRO, I aim to ensure my organization supports a high-performing work environment with the best possible experience for our most valuable asset – our people. We aim to create a truly inclusive culture where all our employees feel that they have a workplace where their diverse perspectives are appreciated and valued and where they truly feel they belong. With the right environment in place, I feel our employees are then truly empowered to do their best work. So ultimately, it is the combination of our people supported by an empowering culture that makes HERE a great workplace.

2. What are the top people priorities in the next two to three years?
Our people priorities are laser-focused in three areas to ensure that we support a high-performance organization.
1. Global Talent Mobility – Deliver a world class global talent pipeline by attracting, deploying,
developing and retaining our critical capabilities.
2. People First – Instill an operational excellence mindset and practices that enable us to build the best
solutions for our customers and to make it easy to work together.
3. One HERE – Instill a high-performance culture that builds collaboration by breaking barriers and embodies our core values to permeate everything we do.

3. How has your association with Great Place to Work® helped your business and strategic goals?
This recognition has been a tremendous engagement opportunity and instilled an incredible sense of pride for our employees. We are thrilled that we have been recognized and our employee survey data underscores the positive impact it has had on our people.