Work

Head of IT Department Andriy Smetana believes that not turning on the camera with HR should become a trend and a rule for HR itself. In his opinion, this will allow HR to not be biased and focus on selecting people. In the future, he believes that the camera should be turned on during interviews with the team. How did IT professionals and recruiters react to such a proposal?

HR Business Partner Victoria Zakharova shared with the IT community a trigger that has a significant negative impact on recruiters' performance of their duties and reduces their desire to respond to all candidates' resumes.

Despite its rapid growth in popularity, many developers have not heard of this tool or do not know enough about it to confidently use it in their daily work. Although the ViteConf 2024 conference announced that the number of Vite downloads exceeded 15 million per week, which is twice as much as the previous year. It seems that this tool will soon catch up with the more well-known Webpack among developers and can significantly affect development in the web industry. So let’s now understand what Vite is and how it can be useful in the frontend.

In 2024, 1,122 graduates of Mate academy, an online IT academy, took their first step in their careers by starting to work in junior positions. Here are the key figures and insights to show how their story before the offer unfolded compared to last year .

Talent Acquisition Specialist Oksana Hnatiuk told a story about a candidate who turned out to be sexist.

In 2024, Sigma Software lost to Genesis as the best employer. Ukrainian IT professionals believe that service companies have better working conditions, but product companies have more interesting projects. How have the leaders of the ranking of the best IT employers changed since 2017?

Finding the right person who will be useful to the team and the project is the main task of recruitment specialists, regardless of the conditions prevailing in the market. This is equally difficult to do in a scarce market and in a market where there are a lot of candidates. Among talent hunters, the idea sometimes prevails that it is easier to find specialists in the employer market, however, as most of them assure, often the variety of candidates only complicates the search and takes up precious time. dev.ua spoke with recruitment specialists from key Ukrainian IT employers and found out what they expect from the market at Softserve, GlobalLogic, Ciklum, and leading product companies.

What will Ukrainian IT be like in the coming year? This question interests both the business community and specialists involved in the industry. Students preparing to enter the market and switchers who have decided to change their profession and are waiting for their offers are also closely following the development of the industry. dev.ua asked top managers of large IT companies about the challenges they faced during 2024 and what they expect from 2025 for the industry. The heads of EPAM Ukraine, Ciklum, Capgemini Engineering, ZONE3000, Futurra Group, Genesis, Railsware and Master of Code Global told dev.ua about the biggest challenges of 2024 and their hopes for the next year.

Experienced IT professionals shared how they prepared for interviews at Google, Meta, and Microsoft. For example, a product manager shared two lists of questions: one for managers, the other for IT workers.

Front-end Developer Denys Stepanets posted a job opening for a Juner that has the community buzzing. The candidate is offered $200-300 in rewards, but the requirements for the developer «look like the company is looking for a superhero.»

New technologies have made it easy to apply for jobs with the click of a mouse, overwhelming employers with far more candidates than they can handle. As a result, old methods of job searching don’t work, and sending hundreds of job applications can be a recipe for frustration.

Senior Global Recruiter/Career Coach Anastasia Andrushchenko raised the question of why, from the employer’s point of view, he would be willing to pay a higher salary to a new specialist than to a specialist with similar experience who has been working in the company for a long time.