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Recently, the media reported that Telegram, one of the most popular messengers among Ukrainians, is connected to the Russian FSB. However, the management of the messenger’s developer denies this information. Meanwhile, many Ukrainian companies use Telegram for internal communication. According to a survey conducted by dev.ua, 71,4% of respondents use dev.ua to resolve work issues. And only 14,3% prohibit the use of Durov’s messenger at the level of corporate rules. dev.ua asked what messengers Ukrainian IT companies use to discuss work issues. Of those companies that responded, none use Telegram, according to the answers.

Sometimes, even before the first question, you feel like you have a strong candidate in front of you. Experience, understanding, logic — everything is in place. But there seem to be doubts between the words. The voice trembles, phrases begin with «I probably can’t» or «I was just helping out there» (although in reality the candidate was managing the project).

DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer Konstantin Khomko asked the community about a potential exit from the IT industry and an alternative to his current job. His LinkedIn post garnered over 100 comments. So what do IT professionals dream of?

Junior Project Manager Valeria Zolotareva spoke on LinkedIn about an unscrupulous employer who did not pay the team for the work done. In the comments, IT professionals write that this is not the first time — such «partings» with teams seem like a well-established pattern. We tell you the details.

A user with the nickname maximalist14 asked the community: «Is a programmer as a profession everything? Is it still synonymous with success?» Dozens of comments shine a light on the not-so-inspiring mood of IT professionals.

Ukrainian IT specialists, when looking for a job, often come across offers from so-called «offices» — organizations that masquerade as a serious company, but in fact, in most cases, are engaged in scams. dev.ua often describes such cases, but today we decided to figure out what these offices are, what they are like, and how to recognize them among thousands of employers. The text contains several eloquent stories from former employees of «offices» and candidates who almost «fell into» «office» work.

When we talk about a career change, we often imagine a change of job. But sometimes this change starts not with a radical decision, but with interest and observation of what you are truly interested in.

IT professionals complain online that they are sometimes denied an offer because they are so-called overqualified, that is, because they have more experience or advanced skills than are required for the position they are applying for. dev.ua decided to ask recruiters and hiring specialists in which cases they tell a candidate: «We are not hiring you because you are too qualified for this position?» The answers shed some light on this issue.

AQA with 20 years of experience, Nataliya O., told how she refused the most expensive offer in her life because she did not want to betray her principles.

Hi! It’s #vsrativakansii again. Summer selection of trashy job offers as usual on Friday’s broadcast. Today we’ll talk about offices, AI vacancies, cheap developers, HR for online fans and interrogation before an interview.

Ukrainian IT professionals are creating a job search platform called Matchsy, which is changing the approach to recruiting. In six weeks, the startups have formed a community of almost 2,000 subscribers, recorded almost 1,000 applications for the whitelist, and the platform threatens to become a full-fledged competitor to jobs.dou and Djinni. How the experts came to the idea of ​​developing a startup, what innovative things they offer, how they lost a developer, thanks to which they found a new one in a few hours, and what they can offer candidates now, was told to dev.ua by the co-founder and CEO of Matchsy, IT entrepreneur, experienced startup marketer, and Dnipro resident Oleksandr Burlachenko.

It seems to me that one of the key skills of a businessman is the ability to change "hats" depending on the circumstances and situations he works in. I will give an example, of course, from my own experience.

FrontEnd developer Denys Tkachenko recently received unexpected feedback on a test assignment that was hotly discussed on LinkedIn. It turned out that a test that was done too well can make an employer doubt whether it was really done by a human, and not by an AI.