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Global tech giants are cutting back on inefficient employees. Microsoft is planning to cut jobs soon, with a special focus on underperforming employees. To do this, the company’s managers have been evaluating employees up to level 80, one of the highest levels, for several months. And Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg has decided to raise the bar in performance management and quickly fire about 3,600 underperforming employees. Ukrainian companies, when reducing staff, cite other reasons for layoffs. In particular, it is about optimizing the organizational structure and reducing costs. dev.ua decided to find out how Ukrainian IT evaluates the productivity of specialists and what influences this indicator. Below are interesting facts from EPAM, Ciklum and ZONE3000, as well as Railsware and P2H.

The growing amount of short-form video content posted on TikTok, Instagram, and other platforms has prompted researchers in China to investigate how their constant consumption affects brain activity, mental health, and behavior. Andriy Ryzhyk, a psychologist at the educational media platform for psychology and sexual education PSY talks, explained, based on research, how watching short videos is associated with changes in the brain and certain personality traits, in particular envy.

With the coming to power of President Donald Trump, American politics and the economy are moving into his «manual control» mode. And although the system in the US is built so balanced that the president will always have a real counterweight from the parliament, Trump’s drastic decisions could lead to a «split» of America. Here’s how.

Recently it became known that the company «Nova Poshta» has introduced a new service. From now on, you can put your logo on a «Nova Poshta» parcel. It was reported that advertising can be placed both on the digital platforms of «Nova Poshta» — the website, application, account, and on physical media: in branches, in fitting rooms, on screens, on post machines and even on the parcels themselves. dev.ua contacted the company to find out the details of the implementation of innovations, as well as how the service works and what earnings the company expects. Here is what the press service of Nova Poshta answered.

Typically, to assess the level of knowledge and skills, developers are given a test task at one of the interview stages — to write code. However, sometimes a conversation with a technical expert is enough. How «just from words» can determine your strengths and weaknesses in working with code — find out in the article.

Bosch, which has chosen to create products that make people’s lives safer, more efficient, and more convenient through software and AI, introduced the Revol smart crib, which uses sensors, cameras, and AI, at CES 2025 in Las Vegas.