People from post-Soviet countries pay a lot of attention to the technical side of completing tasks, but they lack communication skills and empathy. A recruiter and startup owner in Silicon Valley told Voice of America about this. IT specialists are among those who often leave...
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed a lot in our lives, but not all of the changes have been negative. In some cases, quarantine has opened up new possibilities. One of them was the expansion of online education. Many cool specialists, who previously could only be trained offline, have created ...
When Sasha Sturme was 15 years old, her father gave her a book about programming on Android. She now lives in the United States and works as a WhatsApp programmer. For the online magazine Happy Monday Talks, Sasha Sturma shares his impressions of working on WhatsApp and gives advice on ...
When you arrive in Silicon Valley, you find yourself in an alternate world where everyone is chasing the Next Big Thing. But, becoming a part of this close community with a single line of thinking, you forget about how the rest of the world looks and lives ...
Andy Triba, creator of a platform for remote team work and recruiting Crossover specialists, told MC Today how Ukrainian developers differ from colleagues from other countries and how Crossover organizes the work of 5 employees. Ukrainians help to identify and resolve critical issues With Ukrainian ...
While still a student, Viktor Radchenko was the head of the Internet security department at the largest Ukrainian bank. Seven years ago he took a risk and left for the USA. By the age of 27, Radchenko had become the founder of two startups, which he successfully sold to international companies. First project - assistant...
Roman Apostol’s career in IT can be called bright. After graduating from university, he and his friends founded their own project - a successful Ukrainian startup Preply, and a few years later accepted not the first offer to interview at Google - and got a job at...
Russian students again won the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). This year, the World Cup and the winners' medals were brought home by a total of four universities: Moscow State University. Lomonosov Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, ITMO and the Ural Federal University. Russian teams participate in ICPC ...
Everyone knows that life in San Francisco, California is very expensive, but the complaints from a person who receives a salary of $ 160 thousand a year that he can barely make ends meet, looks rather unexpected even in this metropolis. This is exactly the statement made ...
Dnepropetrovsk IT company “908” is moving all its employees from Ukraine to Poland, to a new office. When asked by the editors about the reason for this decision, company co-founder Andrei Khorsev briefly answered: “The country is fucked up,” but then told details about the move. In the fall the company moved...