Together with the publishing "Mann, Ivanov and Ferber"We continue to explore the bookshelves IT-companies. This time we visited the office of the company ABBYY.
ABBYY is known in Russia and abroad as a developer of solutions in the field of text recognition and document input, linguistics and translation. Approximately 7 million people worldwide regularly use the electronic dictionary ABBYY Lingvo (First product) to translate words and phrases from 20 languages. popular software ABBYY FineReader saves from retyping text, converts images into editable electronic formats. Hundreds of banks, insurance, telecommunications, and many other companies use ABBYY solutions in the field of streaming input documents and data. Specialists such a company probably has something interesting on the shelves.
We began our journey with linguists library. Such an accumulation of books in one room we saw only Yandex. But then somehow calm and old-fashioned, in a good public library: the wooden shelves, the smell of books and the time-worn roots.
The reason is clear: it turns out, there is a library in the company for ten years.
In such places, not librarians work and books keepers. And ABBYY has a guardian - Irina Dobrokhotova.
In the main time, Irina - ABBYY head of the training center, which involved linguists trainees. And since the training is complete without books, Irina took to look after the library. And look there for what - here, by the way, a lot of valuable and rare items. For example, a complete collection of encyclopedia "Britannica".
"Britannica" - the oldest and the most complete encyclopedia in the world. More knowledge than in it, no one in a series of books. Look, even the shelf sags under her!
Of course, there is the Oxford Dictionary and Collins.
When you meet such publications at someone's house, do you think that it is here for the beauty is worth it. But ABBYY library immediately clear that here all these tomes go to work. "Not everyone can be found on the Internet" - with a smile says Irina.
A paradise for the linguist and linguist. The heroes of the book "Phenomenon polyglot"There would be comfortable! Even a cup of coffee enriches knowledge.
ABBYY employees work with a variety of languages. Asian dialects are nothing new ...
But there is a shelf with a particularly rare: Sanskrit or Malagasy (the language spoken on the island of Madagascar).
We ask Irene, which books can be called the Bible for ABBYY employees. "Look for the most battered. Here dictionary Zalizniak speaks for itself. We constantly have to buy new copies. "
"Now it's pretty easy to get, and even before the book in the English language were rare. Asked friends to bring from abroad ", - says Irina.
As the records are kept of these values? It's simple - the corporate portal has a database, where employees say when they took and when he returned a specific book. However, most still work directly with the books in the library - it is to set up and (the more volume "Britannica" will not carry away home). And right there in the library, studying languages. For example, the French left after the lesson.
Along with Irene, we go to the training center to see, from what books linguists trainees begin their practice into ABBYY.
Each Tomiko's stamp with a leaf and embedded company logo with the names of the readers - just like in the library from my childhood!
Cups and then amazing.
But ABBYY try to learn not only to beginners. "It is important that every member of our staff was professional - says Anastasia Savina, HR-director of the company. - To do this, there are different ways. One of them - to read books and articles. "
"People who are inclined to read professional literature, is much stronger in the field. It is always visible, and they are rapidly progressing in their careers. " Anastasia says that the budget of each department specially allocated funds, which you can buy profile literature.
Previously, departments purchased mainly paper books, but they quickly went on the tables. Now, most employees prefer electronic counterparts. In the intranet there are lists of recommended books for different professionals with links to the relevant pages of e-shops.
We're going to look for paper books and interact with marketers. Along the way we meet the curious tongue twisters:
Lyudmila Ivanitskaya, general manager of marketing for ABBYY: «As a basic profile literature marketers recommend that you read the book"Fundamentals of marketing"F. Kotler that teaches approach to production and marketing of the product from a consumer point of view and its pressing problems. Following the trend of the market, more and more outgoing online, a lot of reading on the subject in recent years, online marketing, including the rules of creation of web-sites, search engine optimization techniques and contextual advertising. On creating content sites highly recommend a wonderful book Janice (Ginny) Redish "”. And, of course, for the successful cooperation and management team read general books on management, communication, and the basics of presentation, such as "Kama Sutra for speaker"Radislav Gandapas".
All these publications are popular in ABBYY in electronic form, but, of course, there are shelves with paper marketing books. For example, "Ogilvy on Advertising», «marketing machine"And" Business - it's a duel. "
Lyudmila says that the marketer in the IT-companies simply need to read books about programming and programmers: "For example, we have a very popular"Mental hospital patients in the hands of"David Yang recommend it to everybody."
But there are other interesting publications for expanding horizons.
Aram, director of the Department of products for data input ABBYY company, says that reading Kant, in order to better understand the structure of modern business (remember, the chief engineer Acronis I told like Kant's philosophy helps in programming?). Aram lists books that impressed him.
1) «Seven successful people skills"Covey.
"She explains that to be successful in life, you need to be highly moral. And rightly so, if you want to work with creative people, as such it is difficult to keep within the lowland interests. It is also about morality in business fine writes Richard Branson. "
2) Jobs BiographyWritten by Isaacson.
"The book tells interesting things not only about Jobs, but also about the entire industry of the time."
3) Drive Daniel Pink.
"Phenomenal book about motivation."
4) The lean startup Eric Rice.
Aram explains that the big companies - the best environment for a startup, because they have already set up the accounting system and a new project can measure each step. "In ABBYY as was the case with mobile development. Nobody took us as a company that produces something in the mobile segment. Now our products are in the tops Apple AppStore and Google Play. But it was a start, people did not know how to do, but really wanted to, and they all turned out. "
Photos of Christina Yatkovsky