Ukrainian IT abroad: Poland and Spain are among the top countries for relocation, but «net» salaries are only 8% higher than in Ukraine
The DOU website has conducted a salary survey of 2622 Ukrainian IT professionals currently working abroad. The full report is available at linkWe will briefly summarize the main indicators.
Happiness Index in Ukrainian IT: tech leaders and analysts rejoice, while RnD engineers need support
Skylum and VP Team conducted a study (via dev.ua) and compiled the happiness index of Ukrainian IT employees — based on factors, that affect their level of satisfaction (including salaries and bonuses), as well as the reasons why specialists change jobs.
An IT specialist earned $470,000 a year from 6 remote jobs — it turned out that he had a whole team working for him
An experienced IT quality control specialist who tells his story under the pseudonym Harrison «juggled» six remote jobs during the year and earned $470,000. His goal for the next year is $800,000, but how does he do it?
At home, but without a bonus: Vodafone cancels bonuses for «remote» employees
The British telecommunications company Vodafone has launched efforts to intensify its return to office (RTO) policy and threatens to withdraw bonuses for non-compliance.
Anthropic boss: «Artificial intelligence will write 90% of the code in six months, and in a year — it will take over everything»
CEO of Anthropic and «father» Claude chatbot Dario Amodei made a sharp prediction about the future of software engineers, hinting that their main job will be 100% performed by artificial intelligence in a year.
A fired developer planted malware in the company’s IT systems — wanted revenge, but got 10 years in prison
Davis Lu, a 55-year-old developer, had been working for Eaton Corporation for 12 years and was facing redundancy in 2019 — but he decided he wouldn’t quit so easily and left his management and colleagues with a «parting surprise».
The HR manager hired fictitious employees and «earned» $2.2 million on their salaries — the fraud was discovered only after 8 years
The HR manager of a technology company from Shanghai «earned» $2.2 million in 8 years by hiring non-existent employees and misappropriating their salaries.
Nvidia Chief Architect: «Young programmers should develop 2 key skills — and they will help to outperform AI»
Nvidia Technical Leader Bryce Adelstein Lelbach in a new podcast interview TechBytes (via Business Insider) discussed the hiring processes in the IT industry and the challenges faced by human professionals due to the expansion of AI — and, among other things, outlined the key skills that young programmers need to develop to make their way in a…
ISACA report: 73% of IT workers suffered from stress and burnout, with deadlines and high workload among the reasons
According to the latest ISACA report (via TechRadar), about three-quarters of IT workers (73%) have experienced work-related stress and burnout — the vast majority of them are young professionals.
A student passed a technical interview at Amazon with the help of AI and received an offer — now wants to drop out of university
Companies such as Amazon, Apple, or Google conduct a series of interviews for potential candidates, and one of the most difficult ones is a technical one, which often has to be done online on camera and under the supervision of another employee.
Instagram founder: «The work of programmers will change dramatically in the next 3 years — they will be left with what AI cannot do»
Mike Krieger, co-founder of Instagram and now Chief Product Officer at Anthropic, predicts that the work of software engineers will change dramatically in the next three years — and it will be all about artificial intelligence.
Developers spend only 16% of their working time on coding, the rest is spent on background and operational tasks
The latest analyst report IDC (via InfoWorld) shows that the vast majority of developers’ efforts in 2024 were spent on background and operational tasks, while coding took only 16% of the total working time.
A Japanese IT company offers «sick leave for hangovers» and gives away free alcohol at work. What’s the catch?
And there is no trick to it — this is simply how a small IT company, Trust Ring, based in Osaka, is trying to attract new employees and compete with large players in the industry that offer higher salaries.
The most popular programming languages in Ukrainian IT: TypeScript has overtaken JavaScript, and the shares of C# and Java continue to fall
The DOU website has published its annual rating of programming languages based on a survey of about 7,500 Ukrainian IT professionals.
The average salary in Ukraine «increased» to ₴21,946. The largest increase is in IT (+37,7%), while the education sector lags behind
According to State Statistics Service, the average salary of full-time employees in Ukraine in the third quarter of 2024 increased by 22.3% to ₴21,946.
Kharkiv IT specialist blows up a car with a Ukrainian soldier — along with three local GRU agents
SBU detained in Kharkiv, a group of GRU agents consisting of four local residents — two unemployed, a former military officer and a software engineer.
A young «IT specialist» from Kryvyi Rih created a program to hack AUTO.RIA, which he tried to sell online for 2600 UAH
The 16-year-old boy was an active participant in the hacker forum «zelenka.guru», where he offered his services in creating malware.
Ukrainian Armed Forces Capture Egyptian — says he came to Russia to study IT, but received a summons
The captured Egyptian says he came to Russia to get a higher education in IT technology, but for some reason he decided to get citizenship and a summons at the same time.
Ukrainian robot_dreams has launched a contest for «coders» — giving $1000 for the «weirdest» one-line code
Ukrainian educational platform robot_dreams launched a contest for «shitcoders», in which the winner will be offered a cash prize for the strangest one-line code.
Google spent $2.7 billion to rehire its IT guy — he was rejected for «uninteresting» product
Three years ago, a software engineer proposed an AI chatbot project to Google, but it was rejected, and the man quit the company to found his own startup.
OnlyFans instead of Netflix: an IT professional changed her job and now earns almost twice as much
The 36-year-old OnlyFans star, who goes by the pseudonym Space Ghost, attracted the attention of X (Twitter) users with her post about a radical career change. The girl told how, after 15 years of working in the IT field, in particular at Netflix, she left the industry to work in the adult industry.
85% of Ukrainian IT professionals use artificial intelligence in their work — most often juniors and executives
Profile resource of DOU analyzedhow Ukrainian IT professionals use artificial intelligence — it turned out that the most active users were beginners and managers, although the vast majority of respondents are still wary of the technology.
A portrait of a Ukrainian IT professional by DOU: A 30-year-old married Kyiv resident who donates $180 to the Ukrainian Armed Forces every month
Profile resource of DOU analyzedhow Ukrainian IT professionals live and work in 2024, and created an average portrait of a specialist.
The IT specialist told how Apple’s HR managers forced him to go through 13 interviews to finally… reject him
An experienced product manager shared his negative experience with an interview at Apple, calling it «the worst interview experience» in his career.
Experience, title, specialization, and English: who gets $6K in Ukrainian IT and why
Only 9% of Ukrainian IT professionals have a salary of $6000. Most often, these are developers (68%) or DevOps specialists (9%).
The top 10 IT companies with the highest revenue in 2023 have been named
The data monitoring service Opendatabot has published a rating of the best companies in Ukraine in 2024. The list includes the largest businesses with impeccable business reputation.
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