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The IT job market today has two striking characteristics that often contradict each other. Candidates complain that they have no offers, recruiters — that there are no worthy applicants for open vacancies. This leads to the fact that hiring slows down, significantly stretches out in time. And often candidates on a professional social network complain that a lot of time passes from the first contact to the offer — sometimes months. Marathons of interviews in several stages, long tests and waiting for feedback slow down the hiring process. dev.ua asked leading IT employers how long their hiring cycle lasts, and whether it is possible to get a job for an IT specialist not in a few weeks or months, but in a few days. Here is what recruitment experts say.

Senior Media Buyer Eduard Khristoforov shared his experience working with TrafficMinds, which, according to the author, did not pay him for the work he did. After the publicity, it seems that candidates began to refuse interviews, at least one such case is already known.

Over the past decade, the cloud has become the default way to launch projects. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and others have given us what we dreamed of: a quick start, flexible scaling, and a bunch of ready-made services «out of the box.» This is especially true for startups: a few clicks and the MVP is already online, no hardware purchases, and you only pay for what you use. But at some point, as businesses grow, the magic of the cloud becomes too expensive. That’s when companies stop, calculate the economics, and… look toward dedicated servers.