Work

In a world where office walls have become a metaphor rather than a physical reality, remote work has transformed the IT landscape. It has opened the door to flexibility and freedom for thousands of professionals. But is this «new normal» really the golden ticket to higher productivity and a harmonious life, or does it hide pitfalls in the form of constant overtime and the threat of career plateaus? Today, it is difficult to find a company in IT that does not at least partially support hybrid or fully remote work. HR specialists see this transformation every day — both from the employee’s and the company’s point of view. However, often due to the availability of an alternative, businesses face the loss of a candidate: IT professionals who are used to working from home often refuse to consider an office or hybrid work format. Therefore, Ukrainian IT specialists are increasingly choosing solitude in their own apartment or a country life away from civilization. However, remote work has its pros and cons. dev.ua spoke with Oksana Petrenko, CHRO at SharksCode, about the advantages and disadvantages of remote work for IT professionals. Here are the main conclusions from the conversation.

During April-June, 26,900 vacancies were published on Djinni. This is 300 more than in the previous three months, and 2,300 more than in the same period in 2024. Marketing and Fullstack lead the top five in terms of the number of vacancies published.

Soham Parekh, a 24-year-old Indian programmer, worked full-time at seven different American IT and AI companies in Silicon Valley for at least three years straight. He worked remotely from India all the time, so no one noticed that Parekh was receiving pay from multiple employers at once. The mega-worker was exposed after a post in X by Suhail Doshi, CEO of AI startup Playground AI. «There’s one guy who works in 3-4 startups at the same time,» he wrote, not yet knowing that in reality the number of companies the IT guy worked with was almost twice as many. We tell the story of a specialist who managed to hold an incredible number of positions at once.

HRD Pavlo Tkachenko was interested in the recruiter vacancy, but he clarified that he might not even apply because he does not qualify for the company based on age.

PMO and Odoo engineer Anastasia Myroshnyk complained in Threads that she has a developer on her team who writes all the code using artificial intelligence. However, this does not add dynamics to the project — the code often does not work. She asked the community if it is normal for AI to do all the work of a programmer. Here is what IT professionals think about this.

I communicate with dozens of candidates every week. On the outside, everything is familiar: experience, resume, salary expectations. And most live in a country where war is ongoing. Where the background level of anxiety has long been off the charts. And that’s why something deeper is often hidden under classic career questions.

C++ Developer Vyacheslav S. asked the community whether it is necessary to add information about the military accounting specialty and deferment, if any, to the resume. The community is considering this issue — the conclusions are disappointing.

Recruiter Margarita N. shared on LinkedIn a list of the strangest situations she’s had to interview candidates in. In the comments, hiring experts and IT professionals added to this list, and dev.ua also asked recruiters from large companies about the most interesting interviews they’ve had in their practice over the past year.

“This is already a must-have, there are already cases where engineers are asked to write online coding prompts during interviews,” is one of the comments we saw on LinkedIn. It was written by Software Developer Viktor Svertoka after discussing such cases with colleagues during a meeting at the DOU Day IT conference. So we decided to ask team leaders whether they practice such a task, and vice versa — we asked developers whether they have encountered such a requirement. In addition, we monitored vacancies on jobs.dou to check how often employers require candidates to have such a skill. Here is what our small study showed.