The beginning Exactly today (Janury 20th, 2020), it’s my second year at Bukalapak. This made me think back about all the experiences and knowledge that I gained. Before working at Bukalapak, I worked at one of the FMCG companies as an IT developer for about a year. While there, I realized that I wanted to be freer to experiment or be independent in building projects that had more impact. That moment started when my friend asked me to join Bukalapak....
People make mistakes. But from mistakes, we learn and grow. We’ve been trying really hard to complete the task, but sometimes things still slip up during development and cause a big impact in production. And things like that are unavoidable. All we can do is face it and take responsibility. I remember a few months after joining Bukalapak, I made a bug that caused a big impact. At that time I made a recurring transaction feature on the postpaid electricity bill page....
When we talk about what it’s like to work at a tech startup, we need to understand what startup means. This is one of the definitions that I think fits best from the president and co-founder of Bukalapak about the meaning of startup. Startups are businesses that seek to solve a problem with a solution that has not been tested, has not been scalable, or has not been proven to be financially sustainable....