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Being a MarsBased employee comes with a lot of benefits.
- Office Material 👩🏻💻
- Language Courses 🗣
- Training & Learning 🤓
- Referral bonus 👩🏻🚀
- Sports & Health 🚴🏻♀️
- Conferences 🎤
- Coworking 🏢
We are an officeless company, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't have one. Count on MarsBased support to create a comfortable working spaceship 🚀
When you join our crew, you get a laptop or a desktop computer with the specs you like. Additionally, MarsBased covers the costs of your office material, such as a desk, a secondary screen, a chair, etc. We only ask you to use it sensibly. Find below examples of products as well as the budget up to which the company is covering for each product type. You can of course choose a model not listed here. Feel free to choose your flavor! In case you choose a product that exceeds the budget, you will just have to cover the difference.
Given the tools we use, we recommend getting a Mac or Linux, but we're open to adapt to your preferences as much as possible. As a default, we offer the following two options:
- MacBook Air M3 (13 or 15”, 16GB RAM, 512 SSD)
- MacBook Pro M4 (14”, 16GB RAM, 512 SSD)
- Mac Mini M4 (16GB RAM, 512 SSD)
- Slimbook Executive 14 with Ubunto or Linux Mint (14", 32GB RAM, 1TB NVMe)
- Whenever you need any material, let us know on this Linear issue.
- If you choose one of the above-recommended products or any other within that budget, we'll buy the product for you, and you will receive it at home in due time.
- If you opt for a product that exceeds the budget, please buy it yourself and send us a photo of the receipt to admin@marsbased.com (no invoice is needed in this case). You will get reimbursed up to the budget amount in your next payroll.
Hope your new purchase meets your expectations and allows you to work more comfortably 🙌🏼
From MarsBased, we strongly encourage you to improve your English skills (or any other language you're interested in such as Spanish, Japanese, or Basque 😅). You can devote up to one hour per week during the workday to language learning classes without needing to make up the time.
For that purpose, you get up to 180€/200$ per quarter to taking on-site/online lessons, or using on the iTalki language learning platform.
- Let us know on this Linear issue you want to take up language lessons in iTalki.
- If this is your first time using iTalki, you will need to sign up and set up your profile. You can use the MarsBased email address or your personal one.
- Let us know the email address of your account so that we can transfer you the credit of 200$. You will receive it in 1-2 days in your account.
- Every quarter or when you run out of credit after that period, reach out to us to request your credit again. You will receive it within 1-2 days in your account.
- Let us know on this Linear issue your preferred option for taking language lessons.
- Make sure the academy or private professor you've chosen is able to issue us an invoice (either monthly or quarterly) so that we can make the payment to them or we can reimburse you for the payment you previously did. The invoice should include the following fiscal data:
MarsBased SL
NIF: B66245077
Sardenya 470, 2-1
Barcelona, 08025
If you'd like to go for an alternative way of learning languages, let us know and we'll do our best to adapt to it.
We have different initiatives aimed at supporting Martians' professional growth and skill development. From ensuring project rotation every time when possible, to the weekly Martian Tapas session, or the participation at conferences like the EuRuKo.
In addition to the mentioned, MarsBased offers you an allowance of 150€ per year to invest in your learning process as a developer, professional, and human. This can include fees to conferences, registration to courses, coaching sessions, buying books, etc.
- Whenever you want to invest in your training, let us know on this Linear issue the product or service you want to get.
- Proceed with the purchase of the product/service.
- Send a photo of the receipt to admin@marsbased.com (no invoice is needed in this case).
- You will get reimbursed up to 150€/year in your next payroll.
- In case the allowance isn’t used (partly or at all) throughout the year (for any reason), the remaining amount of the allowance will be added to your payroll as a "bonus" at the end of the year. The “bonus” is considered part of the salary and therefore is subject to tax and social security retentions.
Have fun and enjoy the lifelong learning process! 🤹🏻♀️
We normally hire 2-3 developers per year. We are open to receive recommendations from you on colleagues you've worked with or any developers you may know and think could be a good fit for our team.
If you introduce us to this person and facilitate the conversations, you will get a referral bonus of 1000€ if we end up hiring her or him. We will pay the bonus after the third month of that person in the company.
Let Leire know if you have any recommendation.
This is always a good opportunity to work with people you worked with and liked in the past!
We all know about the importance of exercising and doing sports for our health and general wellbeing, even though many times it turns out challenging to take the time to dedicate to it. From MarsBased, we'd like to give you a boost, encourage you to do the type of exercise you like.
We offer you an allowance of 150€ per year to invest in sports and health-related activities or products. This can include gym fees, yoga lessons, the new running shoes you are willing to buy, or a session with a personal trainer. Whatever that sounds appealing to you.
- Once you make your choice of the product, activity or service you want to use, let us know on this Linear issue.
- Proceed with the purchase of the product/service.
- Send a photo of the receipt to admin@marsbased.com (no invoice is needed in this case).
- You will get reimbursed up to 150€/year in your next payroll.
- In case the allowance isn’t used (partly or at all) throughout the year (for any reason), the remaining amount of the allowance will be added to your payroll as a "bonus" at the end of the year. The “bonus” is considered part of the salary and therefore is subject to tax and social security retentions.
Have fun & stay in shape! 🏄🏻♀️
Martians sometimes go to conferences as a way of learning new things and meeting other colleagues in the sector.
In some cases, MarsBased is interested in (part of) the team participating in a specific conference, and therefore the proposal for participation comes from the company itself. In this case, MarsBased pays for the conference fee + travel + hotel expenses. You don’t need recover those work hours later on.
We are also open to your proposals. If you are interested in attending a conference in the sector, please let us know following these steps and we will review it to see how we can help you.
- Create a new discussion in the Linear board for the conference you'd like to attend, and name it as "Attending + Name of the conference"
- Include the following details about the conference:
- Event dates
- Conference fee (if any)
- How you expect MarsBased to support you
- Why should MarsBased support you (which is the value you expect the conference will bring to you and to the company)
We'll evaluate the information provided and depending on the relevance for the company, you might get some days off for attending the conference, have conference tickets covered, or even get transportation and accommodation expenses covered. The conference will be considered:
- Highly relevant: when the content is directly related to your work and MarsBased activity. In this case, the company will be happy to pay for the conference fee + travel + hotel expenses. You won’t need to recover those hours later on.
- Interesting: when the content is not very relevant for the company but offers learning potential for you as a developer. In this case, you'll be able to attend the conference during your work schedule. You won’t need to recover those hours later on.
- Unrelated: when the conference is not related to your work nor MarsBased activity. In this case, the company offers you the flexibility to attend the conference during your work schedule and recover those hours another day as best fits you.
For conferences considered interesting and unrelated, remember you can use the allowance you get for training & learning purposes to cover the conference fee, travel and/or hotel expenses.
You are welcome to bring your proposals! 📭
Working from home might not be comfortable for everyone due to a lack of adequate working conditions at home, difficulties in concentrating because relatives are around, or the feeling of being too isolated and needing to be surrounded by other coworkers.
If that's your case and need a coworking space, MarsBased will provide you with an allowance of 150€ per month for paying the cost.
- Let Leire know your need for a coworking.
- If you've already identified the coworking place that suits you, that's great. Otherwise, we’ll help you find one (especially if you are based in Barcelona, where we know more places).
- Normally, coworking spaces require signing a contract and they charge a fee on a monthly basis. Let's see which are the conditions in that specific case, and we'll agree on the easiest way to managing it (can be either directly from MarsBased or through you).
- Let us know beforehand when you are going to stop using your coworking space either temporarily or permanently. Let the coworking know that as well so as to avoid being charged for that period.
Count on us whenever you need something regarding your workspace!