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A year ago, the typical scenario for a graduate of a technical faculty looked pretty bleak: dozens of responses to Junior Software Engineer vacancies, several test tasks, and almost guaranteed silence in response. The candidate, who is being talked about in SKIFTECH, also came to look for a job as an engineer. He had no commercial experience — only a good theoretical base, his own knowledge and a desire to work in defense tech. There was no engineering vacancy for him at the time. Instead, the company offered to start by assembling the equipment. For the first month, he worked as an assembler, studying the product, getting acquainted with electronics and production processes. And only then did he move to an engineering position. SKIFTECH says that this was a conscious path of development within the company. This story well illustrates the changes currently taking place in Ukrainian miltech. While classic IT has been experiencing a crisis of junior vacancies for several years, manufacturers of drones, communication systems and other military equipment are increasingly ready to train people practically from scratch. dev.ua talked to manufacturers of solutions for the military about which positions they are ready to hire people with minimal or no experience at all.

It is difficult to imagine the modern corporate world without endless online calls, which often drag on and exhaust the team. The problem of ineffective calls has become so acute that it has become the subject of countless jokes. However, sometimes an ordinary Internet meme can become the impetus for the creation of a real digital product. This is how the idea of ​​​​a service for anonymous voting for the early end of rallies was born - it was created in just two days by UX/UI designer Anna Shevelova using artificial intelligence.

The Ukrainian gaming community was outraged after the creators of the tactical cat game Mewgenics announced the addition of Russian localization. Previously, famous indie developer Edmund McMillen conducted a survey about which localizations players want to see, and Ukrainian was in the lead.

Head of Project at Sense Bank Oleg Klyapko, with over 30 years of experience in programming as a hobby, created the free iOS app Seizure Dairy for people with epilepsy. The idea to develop this digital seizure diary came from a personal need — to help his own son. Thanks to the synergy of parental motivation and the involvement of modern AI tools, the developer managed to create and release the app on the App Store in just one month. And Seizure Dairy has already yielded the first results: thanks to accurate tracking, the number of seizures in his son decreased by 30%.

Oleksiy Kuts, a resident of AIT, wrote on LinkedIn to reach the Ministry of Defense, called the academies of three cities, transferred from the rear to the combat unit after months of correspondence with the General Staff, and eventually managed to break through the wall of military bureaucracy and join the newly created IT vertical of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. We talked with Oleksiy about how the IT vertical works from the inside and which IT worker would be suitable for the position of army digitalizer.