BlaBlaCar

BlaBlaCar

  • Aplicaciones móviles, Economía colaborativa, Movilidad
  • Paris, Izhevsk, Kiev, Madrid, Moscow, São Paulo, Warsaw
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Past and future

When Fred was trying to get home to his family in the French countryside for Christmas 2003, he struggled as he had no car and all the trains were full. After begging his sister to pick him up, it was on the road when Fred noticed the sheer number of people driving alone. It hit him that all those empty seats in existing cars could be the beginning of a new travel network. Over the next decade, together with co-founders Francis and Nicolas, the trio took this simple idea and built it into the world’s leading carpooling platform, connecting millions of people going the same way. So far our community has shared 30 billion kilometers and saved over €1.4 billion during their trips.

  • 100M+: Number of members.
  • 22: Number of countries.
  • 1,6M: Number of tons of CO2 saved per year by carpooling.
  • 1.8M: Number of meeting points in the world BlaBlaCar serves every month.
  • 150+: Number of BlaBlaCar Bus stations served in 2021.
  • 120M+: Number of human connections a year.
Their Vision

Their Vision

In Blablacar we bring freedom, fairness and fraternity to the world of travel. We leverage technology to fill empty seats on the road, connecting members looking to carpool or to travel by bus, and making travel more affordable, sociable and convenient. Our objective is to create value for the members of our carpooling community. To do so, we need to walk in their shoes, drive in their cars, have empathy for their needs and constraints. We are users of our service, members of our community. We learn and grow collectively as a team. We’re culture and purpose-driven, and we keep innovation at the core of everything we do. We’re looking for people to join our journey – people who care, who are driven by impact and innovation, and who want to thrive in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment.

Values

Our BlaBlaPrinciples

BlaBlaCar has a uniquely international, diverse and friendly culture to offer. As we grow across markets and countries, we rely on a set of six BlaBlaPrinciples to guide our everyday interactions and behaviors, and to ensure we stay true to our core mission along the way. Together, these principles are the foundation of our company culture.

Our BlaBlaPrinciples

Be lean. Go far.

To us, being lean means that as a company, we manage our resources efficiently to sustain our long-term growth. In our product, we aim for simplicity to offer a seamless user and travel experience.

Fail. Learn. Succeed

Innovation is about taking risks and accepting that failure is part of the story. Everyone is encouraged to take calculated risks, and to openly communicate their failures, big or small, so we can collectively learn and be stronger as a result.

Dream. Decide. Deliver

We dared to dream of a travel solution that didn’t exist. Come dream with us during one of our regular Coding Nights or brainstorming sessions. With our culture of trust & autonomy, our dreaming comes with the boldness to decide, and the diligence to deliver.

Fun & Serious

With our high-performing & result-driven culture, there’s always room for celebration. We love our 'BlaBlaBreak' retreats, 'BlaBlaShows' (we’ve got talent!), weekly breakfasts and afterworks, team-building activities, and we never forget to celebrate birthdays and anniversaries.

Share more. Learn more.

We have a strong culture of sharing and transparency. Our weekly 'BlaBlaTalks' and Tech Demos, regular international weeks across offices, and a best-in-class onboarding experience ensure constant professional and personal growth.

Be the member.

To understand our members and have empathy for their needs, we’re active users of our services. We offer free bus and carpooling to our employees in order to receive product feedback and continuously improve our award-winning customer service.

Commitments and CSR

Our vision is to innovate for more accessible, social and eco-friendly travel. We leverage technology to fill empty seats on the road, thus allowing more people to travel in fewer cars. Every year, the BlaBlaCar community saves over 1.6 million tons of CO2, the equivalent of Paris annual road emissions. By filling empty seats in cars, we enable people from different horizons to enjoy a ride together and split the cost. People can enjoy affordable travel from anywhere to everywhere, even in the most remote places with little to no transportation infrastructure.

Our purpose is to build and empower a diverse and inclusive workplace, where differences drive innovation. From partnering with organisations that support underrepresented talent to reviewing our hiring process, our aim is to be a team that reflects the diversity of our community of members. It's how we can truly meet their needs and build an accessible app for all

Key Figures

    1.6 Mt

    Quantity of CO2 saved by carpooling = annual transport emissions in Paris.

ACTION

Our impact extends beyond the world of travel. Find out about all the initiatives happening in our headquarters to increase our positive impact on the environment :

  • Green building certified.
  • Recycling, composting, commitment to a plastic-free office.
  • Local, organic connected fridges and daily organic produce.
  • Impact Day: once a year we step away from the office and dedicate a day to community service in nature and in our local communities. From urban gardening and trash clean ups to renovating daycare centres and helping high schoolers with their resumes.
  • And so much more!
ACTION

Presentation

BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading long-distance carpooling platform – a global, trusted community of 100 million members in 22 countries. BlaBlaCar is creating an entirely new, people-powered, travel network that connects people looking to travel long distances with drivers heading the same way, so they can travel together and share the cost. With the recent integration of a coach bus network, and a commuter service for short-distance carpooling, BlaBlaCar aims to become the go-to marketplace for shared mobility.

With a dedicated member relations service, a state of the art web and mobile platform, novel insurance solutions and a fast-growing community, BlaBlaCar is making travel social, cost-effective and practical for millions of members. BlaBlaCar is continuously innovating, developing smart-stop and smart-pricing algorithms that dynamically unlock millions of possible local meeting points and, in effect, turn every highway into a major transport line while also allowing for more granular point-to-point service in less accessible areas. By doubling the number of people in cars (from 1,9 to 3,9 people), BlaBlaCar saved 1.6 million tonnes of CO2 in 2018 (the equivalent of traffic in Paris for a year).

What they are looking for

The team is looking for agile software engineers, database reliability engineers, data scientists, mobile engineers, functional analysts, as well as community relations agents, product managers, marketing experts, design lovers and sales/account managers. BlaBlaCar is looking for people who dream, people who deliver, and people who love to learn and grow into their role. We are looking for genuine team players, who are truly committed to changing the future of mobility.

Last but not least, BlaBlaCar welcomes talented individuals who share its 6 team principles:

  • “Be The Member.”
  • “Dream. Decide. Deliver.”
  • “Share More. Learn More.”
  • “Fail. Learn. Succeed.”
  • “Be Lean. Go Far.”
  • “Fun&Serious.”

Good to know

As a BlaBlaEmployee, you will:

  • start discovering our story and vision and get a warm welcome during your Onboarding Days,
  • get an overview of ongoing projects during our team-all BlaBlaTalk
  • have fun at our weekly afterwork or breakfast,
  • innovate outside of the roadmap during one of our Coding Nights,
  • work out at the Gym in our centrally-located Paris Office,
  • attend top-notch Tech conferences in France or abroad,
  • enjoy our yearly BlaBlaBreak which takes us all to a memorable 3-days of fun&serious activities
  • travel to one of our offices abroad during your annual BlaBlaSwap
  • carpool for free in exchange for recommendations on improving the service and many many more opportunities to be fun&serious together!

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