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A few more people from over here in wazeland

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

  

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Sagi Hed  

Role/team at waze: Merger Team (Map Algorithms Team)

A bit about what you do here: 0. Or 1. You can choose. 

How long have you been with the company: 7 months. 

What you like most about working here: (1) You (the interviewer) (2) Kicking Dror’s a** in B-ball. 

What you think the coolest part of waze (the product) is: The endless possibilities for expanding the core idea.

Dream phone: Modu (have one). It’s the tiniest **** ever. 

Favorite app, aside from waze: Last dialed calls.

Personal motto: Health issues aside, anything good or bad, is good, cause you can always laugh at your misfortune. The only thing really bad is being mediocre. 

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Alli Magidsohn 

Role/team at waze: MarCom Director 

A bit about what you do here: I’m part of a team that helps push the message out to the world about how groovy our product is. 

How long you’ve been working at waze: Approaching 9 months. I think it’s getting serious… 

What you like most about working here: I like working in service of a product that exists, essentially,  in order to help people. 

What you think the coolest part of waze (the product) is: I just really like the concept – it shows how powerful collaboration can actually be…

Dream phone: It would probably be nice to have a pillowphone.

Favorite app, aside from waze: Quadphoto is fun. 

Personal motto: Everything is matter, and everything matters. 

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Adrián Singer 

Role/team at waze: Waze in Spanish and Portuguese Staff Member 

A bit about what you do here: I manage the accounts of waze in Spanish and Portuguese – Twitter (@waze_es, @waze_br, follow me!), Facebook, blog and forums. 

How long have you been with the company: 3 months 

What you like most about working here: The real time communication with users… and playing xbox 

What you think the coolest part of waze (the product) is: Power to the people! 

Dream phone: BlackBerry 

Favorite app, aside from waze: Project Natal, but they should release the console first I guess 

Personal motto: Power to the people! 

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A few more of the waze crew over here…

Monday, December 21st, 2009

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Dikla Cohen 

Role/Team at waze: Developer, Web Team

A bit about what you do here: Mainly help keep waze’s beautiful site updated and running

How long you’ve been working at waze: 6 months

What you like most about working here: The amazing people and being a part of a growing start-up

What you think the coolest part of waze (the product) is: It’s ability to make people’s everyday life a bit easier and its global spread

Dream phone: iPhone

Favorite app, aside from waze: WordWarp is nice

Personal motto: ‘I can’t do it’ never yet accomplished anything; ‘I will try’ has performed miracles.

 

 

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Tomer Tankel

 

Role/Team at waze: Merger

A bit about what you do here: We update the map from user tracks and other sources.

How long you’ve been working at waze: 18 months

What you like most about working here: Close to home

What you think the coolest part of waze (the product) is: Ability to see other users while driving. The first time I’ve seen this it gave me a sense of belonging to something live and cool.

Dream phone: Telepathic

Favorite app, aside from waze: Talking

Personal motto: Sympathy

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Ori Dubnikov

Role/Team at waze: Map Team/Support

A bit about what you do here: Keepin’ it real…

How long you’ve been working at waze: 6 months

What you like most about working here: The view from my window…

What you think the coolest part of waze (the product) is: No more traffic!! And it’s free!!

Dream phone: WXRR3000…or somthing…

Favorite app, aside from waze: iBeer

Personal motto: Live like an angel, die like the devil.

 

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A few more of the waze crew…

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Meet a few of the crew over here at waze

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Here it is, your peek behind the curtain to meet some of the people who help make the magic happen. Every couple of weeks we’ll be profiling a new batch of waze employees to give you an idea of who’s over here on the other end of things…we hope you enjoy!

Daniel Feldman

Daniel Feldman
Role at waze: Social Media Marketing
A bit about what you do here: I facilitate waze’s communication on popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, etc.
How long you’ve been working at waze: Half a year
What you like most about working here: Working with an amazing team of people
What you think the coolest part of waze (the product) is: It’s a toss up: Either the crowdsourcing element or our mascot “wazer”
Dream phone: I’d love to have the new droid phone or even an iPhone 3GS
Favorite app, aside from waze: I’ve never had a phone that had access to an appstore :(
Personal motto: He who angers you conquers you


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Fej (Yuval) Shmuelevitz
Role at waze: VP Community and Operations
A bit about what you do here: ensure things work smoothly for the wazing community, represent them internally and provide them 24*7 support
How long you’ve been working at waze: From day -1 (a year and a half)
What you like most about working here: The intensity of working with people for people
What you think the coolest part of waze (the product) is: New Road recording – never ceases to amaze me
Dream phone: Droid
Favorite app, aside from waze: Trap!
Personal motto: Better late than never


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Itamar Nabriski
Role at waze: Web Team Leader
A bit about what you do here: Keeping the website from falling apart, mostly
How long you’ve been working at waze: Almost a year and a half
What you like most about working here: Most people here are more neurotic than me
What you think the coolest part of waze (the product) is: Free navigation, especially when it’s dark and you have no idea where you are
Dream phone: Never rings
Favorite app, aside from waze: I am more of a web person…
Personal motto: Quantity has a quality all its own

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