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Salary is one of the most important criteria when looking for a job. Often, salary expectations and the company’s budget do not coincide, and the expected match between the candidate and the employer does not occur. There are also often situations when the employer promises regular salary reviews at the beginning of cooperation, but as a result, after some time the conditions change, and the candidate is forced to remind himself of the promised increase. Or the employee realizes that he is worth more and dares to ask for a salary increase. dev.ua asked experts how to properly ask for a salary increase. Here’s what they told us.

Senior Technical Recruiter Kyrylo Kyrychenko has created a selection of Job Boards in Europe and the UK that are focused on IT professionals.

Denis Levchuk, Senior SEO Specialist, shared a selection of real interview stories on LinkedIn, heard from colleagues. His list was supplemented by other IT professionals. So, here are 10 strange interview stories that should cheer you up. Or vice versa.

An interesting precedent has occurred in Ukrainian IT: recruiters mistook a deepfake video of a candidate for the real thing. The hero of this story was Philip Shurpyk, Head of Engineering at a Ukrainian AI startup. As he told DOU, the man found out that he was supposedly applying for a job that he never applied for. Moreover, he allegedly went on a video call with recruiters, and his fake resume was selected.

Gamification has its origins in the simple game that people have been playing since tribal times. Back then, gaming practices began with rituals and mysteries, but today games unite thousands of people around the world and take many different forms. Can this practice be extrapolated to work processes? Definitely yes, because gamification is a way to make interactions in a company more natural and dynamic by giving real-world tasks the characteristics of a game world. Game mechanics engage people not through coercion, but through interest and competition. This creates an environment in which learning occurs organically, and work processes become clearer and less routine.

IT Project Manager Konstantin Latoshkin complained about how he was «caught» by his employer and took on a multi-hour test task. His post was met with a response from the community — the post collected over 100 comments.

A 21-year-old computer science student at Columbia University, Chung-in «Roy» Lee, decided to create his own startup, Interview Coder, which will help software engineers use artificial intelligence to cheat in job interviews.

Former Amazon Prime Gaming VP Ethan Evans has reviewed over 10,000 resumes and conducted over 2,500 interviews in his career, so he knows what recruiters and hiring managers want to see on a resume — and what mistakes can cost candidates the job.

Treads user Kateryna with the nickname nemirovka_3 asked the community about the level of pay for IT juniors. A heated discussion ensued.

The trend of returning employees to the office is becoming increasingly popular in the US, but for Generation Z, those born in the 2000s, this can be extremely unusual and, in their opinion, counterproductive. After all, since the quarantine times, they have become accustomed to online learning, and some of them have never even worked in an office. At the same time, now, representatives of Generation Z, coming to the office, are faced with a dilemma — how to appear to their colleagues, and most importantly — to their boss — to be busy enough, despite the fact that they are not actually working at that time. That is, to simulate work in front of the eyes of the team. This imitation of work even got its own name — taskmasking.

Frontend Developer Serhiy Belyakov talked about how he is looking for a job in 2025, and why it is now a task with an asterisk. Aitov residents are actively sharing their thoughts on this matter.

Hello! It’s #fuckingvacancies again. And in our first spring selection — pearls found by IT professionals in February-March, as well as a few crunk resumes that recruiters received from candidates.

Working in recruiting is not only a routine of selecting the best candidates, but also an opportunity to collect non-trivial manifestations and requests of potential specialists. Every day, dozens, if not hundreds, of resumes pass through recruitment specialists. And some of them are compiled in a rather strange form. Recruiters make entire collections of such copies.

Last week, I attended HRD Summit Ukraine, where industry leaders discussed changes in corporate culture. One of the main conclusions is clear: adapting a company’s culture to external changes is not just desirable, but vital for the sustainability and long-term development of a business.

Product Manager from Lviv, Oleksiy Rubanyak, went through 52 interviews with recruiters and finally received an offer. The specialist shared detailed job search statistics and interesting details on the path to work on LinkedIn and is now ready to help anyone who wants to in their search.

Changing jobs — a necessity or a challenge? How often should IT professionals change roles in a company or even an employer? In today’s realities, this issue is complicated, since the market has fallen, and whether it will recover to the level of pre-Covid times is unknown. However, updating a workplace can be both a springboard and a stupor for a specialist — it all depends on the conditions, willingness to take risks, engage in new processes, etc. dev.ua asked hiring specialists how often IT professionals should change jobs, and whether recruiters distrust or suspect a candidate who has stayed in one place and position for too long.