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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.

Working in a young team of IT professionals when you are already a pensioner is a reality or a dream? Having the opportunity to demonstrate your professional qualities after 65, when there are only young people around, is more fiction than truth? The absence of gender and age stereotypes in the most dynamic sector of the economy — IT — a chance to prove yourself or be disappointed again? These questions are probably asked by professionals who want to realize themselves even in their seventies. And, whatever stereotypes exist, IT breaks them down, accepting specialists into the ranks not by age, but by skills and professional qualities. dev.ua has prepared three stories of IT professionals aged 65+ who work in leading IT companies and are extremely happy to move up the career ladder, even when most of their peers choose home comfort and a modest life in retirement.