Aliaksandr Nazdryn-Platniski.

During the interview process I had the opportunity to talk with several professionals explaining how the engineering works at Klarna - which got me very interested. Once I decided to join Klarna, the next steps were surprisingly straightforward. Klarna provided all kinds of services to assist the move to Stockholm from Belarus with my wife and our three kids. I started at Klarna during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, and despite the ongoing challenges I got a solid onboarding to the company and support from my team while working from home. At first, we were scared of living in a foreign country with a different language, but I actually found that almost everybody in Stockholm speaks English. I was also surprised how easy it was for our kids to start in kindergarten and in a Swedish speaking school. Overall, people are friendly and help my family to integrate into the society. I have learned that Swedish companies respect your work-life balance.

Working at Klarna.

It’s great to see a mature engineering platform with appropriate tools for engineers to deliver functionality – as well as seeing how technology and new techniques can help to deliver business value to end users. In general, I appreciate the data-driven decisions that are done here at Klarna and how my team is able to use adequate metrics in our daily work. I'm a technology geek – so if something interests me, I can spend a lot of my free time checking out new technology, applying new tools or just for benchmarking.