April 28

Fremont’s Groundspeak Among Seattle’s Best Places To Work

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Seattle Met and the experts at Best Companies Group recently used the results of a survey to decide the 20 companies in the area that do the best job fostering “a work-hard, play-hard culture.” One Fremont-based company made the cut.

Groundspeak (501 N 34th St.) is a tech company that monitors a global geocaching community engaged in round-the-clock, modern-day treasure hunts. Their employees are charged with ensuring that the game keeps running smoothly for their many customers. That can be tough work with long hours, so the benefits at Groundspeak have to be good…

Their Fremont office comes equipped with an Xbox, and a fridge stocked with sandwiches from Homegrown fuels picnic lunches along the Burke-Gilman trail. They play kickball and poker on Friday nights, take off the occasional Wednesday to use their free lift tickets at Stevens Pass, and go group geocaching…well, whenever. But how do they slip past the bosses? “The founders are the ones who initiate it,” says Reini Chipman, head of HR. “Our finance manager beat our CEO in poker last week.”

And in case you’re wondering, they’re hiring.


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