Dror ‘kranky’ Cohen

Role/Team at waze: Operations / Community

A bit about what you do here: Whatever needs to be done that day.

How long you’ve been working at waze: Almost a year now.

What you like most about working here: Traveling in the name of work. Love the GPS business.

What you think the coolest part of waze (the product) is: The endless possibilities it can grow to.

Dream phone: One that will just read my mind and spare me all this typing and clicking. It might take a few more years.

Favorite app, aside from waze: Shazam. Mostly because I like to say ‘Shazam.’

Personal motto: I’m just a mottoless person looking for a motto in this life.

Sheli Moalem

Role/Team at waze: Statistics and Technical Coordinator for Operations Department

A bit about what you do here: Sandwiches for Dror (and sometimes even coffee)

How long you’ve been working at waze: A year

What you like most about working here: The people, the games and the fact that for the first time in my life I wake up every morning happy to go to work.

What you think the coolest part of waze (the product) is: The ability to search a location on web such as “Search for a coffee shop in the area”.

Dream phone: Diamond2

Favorite app, aside from waze: fring

Personal motto: If at first you don’t succeed, dust yourself off and try again.

Adam Matan

Role and/or Team at waze: Geographic Data Integreation, Infrastructure Team

A bit about what you do here: I integrate geographic data from various sources into our system, and make sure that our servers actually work!

How long you’ve been working at waze: 4 months

What you like most about working here: Working with great colleagues, and handling the most innovative and fascinating ideas and technologies today.

What you think the coolest part of waze (the product) is: Earning about 20 minutes from my daily commute thanks to community routing!

Dream phone: Iridium. I like touring extreme locations.

Favorite app, aside from waze: MFE, which helps me read my gmail messages on-the-go.

Personal motto: In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion.