
Progress Bulgaria

Company overview
Why work at Progress?
- Progress is a place that challenges even the best professionals to learn and do new things to become even better. We offer an informal work environment, good professionals, excellent pay and benefits, career development opportunities, training and conferences..
- We highly value good communication and collaboration, giving constructive feedback, sharing experiences and ideas on how we can enhance our work processes, personal qualities and professional competencies. We approach our work with an innovative and entrepreneurial spirit, we put in the effort and a lot of enthusiasm to achieve our goals, and then we celebrate our successes together!
- The mentoring, training and adaptation program for new employees gives a strong start to colleagues who begin their professional path at Progress and lays the foundation for their career development within the company.
Business card
Progress helps organizations achieve transformational success in times of change. Using our software, customers can develop, deploy, and manage accountable AI applications and digital experiences with agility and ease. As a trusted vendor, we offer the products, expertise, and vision that technology professionals need to be successful. More than 4 million developers and IT professionals at hundreds of thousands of companies rely on Progress.
The company’s largest office is located in Sofia, and much of our innovation is developed there – in entirely new products and in existing products that the company brings to market. These include the Progress Sitefinity digital experience platform and the leading developer tools Progress Telerik and Progress Kendo UI.
Behind the success of the products is the high professionalism, expertise and motivation of the people who work at Progress. There are a variety of teams working across the business in Sofia – product development, product management, digital marketing, product marketing, sales and many more. The working environment is based on trust, respect and teamwork and encourages the free sharing of ideas and the development of people.
In the last two years, Progress in Bulgaria has been recognized with over 20 awards and accolades for technology innovation, employee care, teamwork, employer brand development, CSR activities, etc.
If you want to follow all the interesting news, events and team moments at Progress, follow the company on Facebook and LinkedIn !
Activities
Product company
Sector
Development of software products
Central Office
Burlington, Massachusetts, United States
Year of establishment:
1981
Employees worldwide
2 200+
Established in Bulgaria
2014
Employees in Bulgaria:
600+
Offices in Bulgaria
Sofia
IT Employees in Bulgaria
350+
Tech stack
Databases
DevOps:
How we work
Annual leave
30 days paid leave
Additional day of birthday leave
Additional days for volunteering
Additional days for professional anniversaries and achievements
Work from home
Our approach to working from home is flexible - we have no limit on the number of days you can work from home in a month.
Each employee can coordinate their days with their manager and together they can decide what would work for the needs of the specific position and team.
Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours.
Team
Awards
Forbes Business Awards 2022: Employer of 2022, Finalist
2022
Manager of the Year: finalist in the "Team…
2022
b2b Media: Technology Innovation of the Year (II…
2022
QA of the Year Awards 2022: Dimitar Topuzov
2022
Career Show Awards: coolest office, silver
2022
SOS Children's Villages Bulgaria: Long-standing and loyal corporate…
2021
Forbes Business Awards 2021: Employer of the Year…
2021
Career Show Awards: Employee Recognition Strategy, Gold
2021
Career Show Awards: learning and development strategy, bronze
2021
B2b Media Annual Awards: community branding campaign (1st…
2021
Kincentric Best Employer Bulgaria 2021
2021
Forbes Business Awards 2020: Employer of 2020
2020
B2b Media Annual Awards: Innovative Product of the…
2020
Stevie Awards for Great Employers: Most Valuable Employer:…
2020
Stevie Awards for Great Employers: Best CSR Strategy
2020
Progress Wins Association of Support Professionals' "Pushing the…
2020
Software Reviews Names WhatsUp Gold an Emotional Footprint…
2020
b2b Media Awards: Innovative Product of the Year
2020
Stevie Awards for Women in Business: Women Helping…
2020
What others say about us

Yogesh Gupta, Progress: our Sofia office will continue to grow
The CEO of the American software company tells..

How engineering teams should prepare for 2023
Innovation for productivity and with a focus on the user will be crucial

Candidates are empowered to negotiate - Alina Gaber, Talent Acquisition Director, Progress
Benefits
Health and insurance
Additional health insurance with dental treatment included
Option to include a family member/partner
Additional pension insurance
Entertainment and discounts
Parties and teambuilding
Recreation, entertainment and games area
Massages in the office
Discounts for employees
Monthly sports card
Employee discount programme at various retail outlets
Professional Development
Coaching/mentoring programme
Individual career development plan
Certification courses
In-house training
Tickets for conferences and seminars
Other
A team of personal assistants who help us with personal commitments during the day
Free all-day childcare centre in the building
Fruit day every week
Hackathons
Music Corner
Fitness center, available 24/7
Extensive library
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Company options/shares program
Extra insights
The company's key products and services are:
Progress Sitefinity, Progress Kendo UI, Progress Telerik UI (UI for ASP.NET AJAX, MVC, Core, Blazor, Xamarin, Angular, React, Vue, jQuery), Progress Kinvey and others.
Following an established culture of innovation, the teams at Progress operate with processes and in conditions typical of startups - cross-disciplinary product teams that have everything they need to be responsible for the success of a given product themselves. The best methodologies are followed in all parts of the product creation, marketing, sales and technical support process. For example, the industry's first user interface components for Microsoft's newest application development technology, Blazor, were born.
Our values that make up Progress' unique culture:
- Progress collaboratively- Close relationships and spirited teamwork deliver sustained and far-reaching success.
- Respect differences and diversity- Distinct viewpoints and backgrounds improve our work and culture.
- Own our tomorrow, today- Our initiative, acted upon now and seen through to completion, secures future results.
- Uphold trust- Consistently keeping our promises earns loyalty.
- Dare to innovate- Our bold thinking drives tomorrow's breakthroughs.
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