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Wanna Getaway?
As our way of saying thank you, John Galt set up personalized getaways for some teammates who hit long-term milestones with us. For 10 years at John Galt. Sean Ferguson decided to enjoy a trip with his wife to the country music capital of Nashville, where the former college hockey player also enjoyed a Nashville [...]
John Galt named to BBJ’s Best Places to Work list
It’s official, John Galt is once again a BPTW! That’s "Best Place to Work" in Boston Business Journal lingo. What an honor and privilege it is to be named among the top 80 great companies in the Boston area by the BBJ. Thanks to each and every person at John Galt. They helped build the [...]
We Have a Robot!
We were “FIRST” bitten by the FIRST bug (For Inspiration & Recognition of Science & Technology) when we started volunteering as judges for the FIRST Lego qualifier competition two years ago. FIRST Lego is a great gateway into FIRST Robotics which they aptly describe as “combining the excitement of sport with the rigors of science [...]
Recognizing the Father of C++
This month the National Academy of Engineering will present Bjarn Stroustrup with the prestigious Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering "for conceptualizing and developing the C++ programming language". It is truly one of the most widely used and influential computing programming languages. The Danish computer scientist started his work on C++ at ATT&T’s Bell Labs [...]
Bowling Night: Finding Great People is Right Up Our Alley!
Don’t just find more people, find more of the best people. We always post this challenge to ourselves for both internal and external hires. The John Galt team answered the challenge with tremendous success last year in finding some of the most technically-talented candidates and visionary company leaders to work with, substantially adding to our [...]
Getting Pro-Active with your Software Quality Assurance
This month the Software Quality Assurance Group of New England kicked off the new year with John Galt as a sponsor of their January meeting. Our featured speaker, Robin Goldsmith, President at Go Pro Management Inc. and author of Discovering REAL Business Requirements for Software Project Success brought the fireworks by hitting the frustration that [...]