Hippo in Boston

It's been just over a week now, since Hippo opened up the Boston office. Colleagues, implementation partners, clients and friends have been asking me what the place looks like. Here's a first impression. Hope you like it as much as I do.

The Hippo Boston office is located next to the Kendall / MIT subway stop (red line). You can be in Boston Central or at the airport in a matter of minutes. And of course, you can also park your car.

The surrounding high tech companies and innovative MIT startups create a great working atmosphere. It's nice and quiet most of the time. Mostly because there are phone booths when you need to make a call; a feature that has been requested for years on end by my Dutch colleagues. Well guys, you can finally work peacefully.

Now turn on your sound system and play the video below...

That's right, you hardly hear anything. Nice, huh ;)

Meeting rooms

An example of something I specifically like about the building. We share meeting rooms on a first come, first serve basis. The system to reserve the room is so nice, you'd almost reserve the room, just because it's so neat to reserve the room. Watch the video:

A great city

Boston is great. Universities always give a city a nice touch. And saying Boston has a couple of them would be a big understatement. I specifically like the initiatives to encourage biking around the city. It matches well with the Hippo credo to provide each employee a bicycle. Not surprisingly. It's nice to bike to work. Not just because it's healthy, mostly because it's fast.

By the way. The bike in the picture is a Hippo bike and that little orange dot riding the bike is a Hippo :) This Thursday I'll probably see a lot more of the city as Saint Patrick's Day is coming up. I'm supposed to be getting ready for it. Okay. I think I am ready.

So, why an office in Boston?

Hippo came to Boston to better serve the growing number of East Coast clients and partners. We've seen an astonishing amount of interest coming our way as Hippo CMS is clearly capable of serving the largest web properties in the world and more and more Americans start to experience our products. Yes, word of mouth is still a powerful marketing tool. Furthermore, most medium to large companies realize open source isn't just a viable alternative to closed source, it's becoming mainstream.

A second big reason to come to Boston is the time difference with Amsterdam compared to Amsterdam / San Francisco. We can just work better together to integrate our development efforts.

Looking for an interesting job?

As a last note... if you're interested in working for us as a developer in our brand new Boston office? Feel free to get in touch. We are hiring...