Answer the question, what are the first associations you have when mentioning Kuzbass? Most likely, you will remember the coal mines and the grimy faces of the miners. But the Kemerovo region has long been the center of IT-technologies in Siberia thanks to the local Internet provider Good Line. In just a few years, the company has built a modern office in the central region of Kemerovo, not inferior to the famous offices of large IT companies. We went to Kemerovo and saw “IT_” with our own eyes. Under the cut a story about how and where Kemerovsky IT specialist works. There will be a lot of colorful photos.
“THIS_” is the name of the office of Kuzbass IT companies. Under the strange, at first glance, the name of a wordplay. “IT” in translation into English sounds like It, and IT is an abbreviation of information technology, which simply designates the whole industry. So it turned out that “IT_” became the office of Kuzbass IT-companies.
The Kemerovo mining district is the oldest in the city; this fact leaves a huge imprint on the general architecture of the area. The old shabby low-rise buildings mixed with the private sector and generally nothing remarkable. But in the midst of all this inconspicuousness, an unusual structure attracts the eye, as if the hand of an unknown god moved it. This is the very place - Office of Kuzbass IT-companies.
Good Line built here “THIS_” a few years ago and Miner was not chosen by chance. The peculiarities of urban automobile traffic allow the inhabitants of “IT_” to avoid traffic jams. In Soviet times, the school building was located on this site.
After the collapse of the union, the building was practically not in operation and slowly declined. After several years of construction work on the site of the ruins, a modern structure emerged.
Well, stop walking around, let's go to the building. Entry here is free for every visitor. In the bright hall of the incoming welcome young people meet at the reception.
Here they tried to provide everything down to the smallest detail so that it would be convenient not only for the employee, but also for the guest. For example, at the entrance there is a monitor with an interactive map of the city, where the current road situation in the city is indicated.
In Good Line, they organized a full-fledged restaurant in the office where people can access the street. Having a dinner here I will say that this is really a restaurant, and not an ordinary eatery. Of course, the main clientele of the restaurant is “IT_” employees, especially since there are about five hundred people working in their building. On Fridays here and there is noisy at all and the music does not stop until late at night. Local groups perform on a small restaurant scene, and many Good Line employees stay here for a rest after the work week.
A bright orange stand with a bunch of video cameras, sensors and other electronics attracts guests in the lobby. This is a new promising Good Line project - “Digital City”.
The stand clearly shows how the system works and what its current capabilities are. Tests of the "Digital City" are held here. The office has already implemented a smart observation that identifies the number of the car and is looking for a place in the parking lot. All data is transmitted to the driver on a smartphone.
Each corridor here is unique and decorated in an original way.
But freedom of movement in “IT_” ends with the first door, where an electronic lock is installed. You can open it only with a special key. These locks are equipped with each floor of the building.
One of the attractions of “IT_” is a spacious conference room, where not only internal but also regional events take place regularly.
Cozy spaces for relaxation and unhurried conversations are everywhere implemented, where you can comfortably accommodate. Even the "talks" are different from each other.
To move between the floors of the building there are several stairs. Here everything is also purely individual. For example, between the second and third floors there is a spiral spiral staircase:
She started up and installed a crane in an already constructed building. Also between the five floors of the office runs an elevator.
This platform with glass walls, the base of which is a reinforced concrete frame, connects two office buildings. The first, built on the basis of the school building and brand new, erected next.
In “THIS_” each floor has its own hostess.
The location of the departments in the office is planned so that it is more convenient for the employees to communicate with each other. For example, accounting is located near the personnel department, and development teams are constantly intertwined with each other. They are all assembled closer to each other.
When choosing a room for a call center, they took into account all the labor costs of the employees and allocated a floor with panoramic windows so that the eyes of the operators were where to rest after intense looking at the monitor.
Developers live in such a room. It is not too crowded here, including due to the fact that many work remotely.
In “THIS_” people constantly ply, meetings take place in negotiations. Everywhere life is in full swing like you are walking in a noisy metropolis.
Creativity is one of the main components of “THIS_”. It is scattered here everywhere. Most of this creativity is done by the hands of the company's employees.
You can move around the office not only on your own two, but also on alternative transport, like a skateboard.
In “THIS_” there will always be a place for internal corporate startups. For example, in one of the kitchens, employees bring various sweets by setting a price on them. Anyone who wants to drink tea with chocolate will have to throw a certain amount of money into the jar.
Or, for example, a library. When someone from the staff takes the book, he is obliged to check in the electronic database. If you do not do this and take the book with you, then the alarm will go off.
One of the unique features of the building is that regular redevelopment of the project during the construction of the office led to the fact that before the building itself, switching networks and ventilation were designed. Last paid special attention.
The peculiarity of the local switching network is that even before the construction of the walls of the building the network has already been laid. That is, the builders leveled all the other structures under the network.
This is the heart of the entire building's switching network.
In the coming months, a new Good Line data center will be completed next to ITO, where all the main capacities will be located. The site for placing television head stations is also ready.
She is just waiting for the summer when new equipment is placed here.