“Good companies that
know where they are going and treat candidates well can always attract the top talent.”

Kathy McGann
Vice President of HR, E-M Solutions

will change and they’ll lose the fun, so
celebrate every new hire. Develop a strategy to integrate new-timers. Pair them up with old-timers.” “When you have this kind of growth, you run into problems like no offices, no phones, no nfrastructure, and people show up to nothing. There is an attitude that
good people can hit the ground running no matter what, and that the good ones figure out how to make it happen. If your company believes this, then hire employees who are comfortable with that and who don’t expect a badge, a phone, an office. Hire people who are totally flexible, free, and can make it
happen. But develop a good new hire
orientation program to pass along the
company’s culture, values, history, how it
works. Tell new hires how to get stuff done. Don’t forget to tell them how to get expense reports processed, and how to log on to the networks.”

Juniper Networks
Ray Martelli, Vice President of HR

“You don’t handle exponential growth
(laughs). I don’t think there’s one right or
wrong method for handling the kind of
extreme growth that we’ve had at Juniper
Networks. No one has perfected it. The most important rule of thumb is to have sound business practices and an experienced management team. You need to utilize basic business principals and then key in on those to manage going forward. You must put guidelines in place that allow flexibility so that you can move forward quicker. You don’t want anything very restrictive. Your entire
company must be able to move rapidly and change as needed. It is essential that your management team understand exponential growth and what it means, and really know how to manage it. There is no tried and true method, except that you must have an experienced management team on board, and design practices that are flexible enough to turn on a dime as needed.”