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Let me start by saying that I’m not the biggest advocate for personas, they’re not always the best way to understand our users and their challenges. But, this particular case is one where a persona has been so helpful, I even felt compelled to write a blog about it.

Magda takes the mic to tell us about life as a Cleo Engineer 🎤

Salary negotiation can be a challenging but ultimately rewarding process, literally. After training a couple of work experience students at Cleo on this recently, I was reminded how daunting it can feel when you’re just starting out. So, here’s a handy guide to follow, whether this is your first, fourth or hundredth time!

So, what's Cleo got to do with financial health? It seems to be all the rage for Fintech startups to talk about financial health at the moment.

You’ll hear a lot about transparency if you work at Cleo, it’s something we value and rely on to achieve our mission. Humble brag: we’re all really proud to be in a position to share this information with you.

This is probably how you’d expect to round up a meeting with your manager...

Last year, our Heroku Postgres database was fast approaching its 3TB storage limit, the maximum size that Heroku supports at time of writing. To make sure our community of 4 million people could continue to work on their financial health with Cleo, it was essential to migrate away from Heroku as quickly and smoothly as possible.

Thinking about career progression can be a daunting prospect, especially when you’re busy in your current job. So many actions to take, and that’s once you’ve actually figured out where you wanna be. It’s easy to get lost in high-input tasks that have little reward.

This blog post is adapted from a talk I recently gave to alumni from Makers Academy on career progression as a Software Engineer.

Cleo and The Girls' Network mean business.

You didn’t hear it from me, but Cleo Engineers aren’t perfect. We have bugs. We have quite a few of them. Our relentless focus at Cleo is to make it as simple and joyful as possible for our users to level up their relationship with money.

The ineffable cool that is Cleo Designer, Corinne Hitching, needs no introduction. Designers, or anyone who’s reading, please enjoy this exploration with one of our original Cleo designers.