Russia’s biggest bank is paying up to keep the nation’s best tech talent from emigrating to Silicon Valley. To analyze 135 million customers, it needs the power of big data. Sberbank PJSC, which holds 46% of Russian retail deposits, says it’s luring experts in the field with some of the highest salaries at the state-owned …
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Which countries have the best programmers in the world? HackerRank, a platform that ranks engineers based on their coding skills and helps companies discover talent faster, has tried to answer this question based on coding challenges. Attracting hundreds of thousands of developers from all over the world, these challenges involved a variety of languages and knowledge domains, …
According to the research company Bersin, the international market for interactive instruments used to evaluate job seekers is estimated to be worth $2 billion a year. The market recently welcomed the arrival of a new member, Skillaz, created by a former Kaspersky Lab collaborator, Andrei Krylov, and Grigory Dudash, a former employee of Nival, which is the company behind …
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For most of the last decade, Igor Gladkoborodov worked his way up in Moscow’s vibrant high-tech scene, going from web developer to co-founder of an online-video startup that drew $3.5 million in local funding. Last month, he abandoned Moscow for Menlo Park, California, joining a growing flow of professionals leaving Russia amid recession, deepening international isolation …
Putin faces growing exodus as Russia’s banking, tech pros flee Read More
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has simplified the process of hiring foreigners at Skolkovo, the international tech hub under completion on the outskirts of Moscow. Medvedev, who signed the original decree on the creation of Skolkovo as president in 2010 and sits on its board of trustees, has included all of the project’s legal entities …
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Last week, the Russian Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) announced that the salaries of its staff are being reduced this year “from 23% to 54%, depending on the region,” news agency TASS reported. For example, “a Roskomnadzor employee who received last year 50,000 or 55,000 …
The Luxoft Personnel company conducted research on attitudes toward emigration among Russian IT specialists in the fall of 2014. It was seen that 65% of the 4000 participants in the survey consider moving to another country a possibility, and 18% are prepared to do so in the near future. There were also participants (17%) who, …
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Last month international online recruitment service Zartis.com announced the launch of its platform in Moscow. Zartis provides employers with access to pre-screened IT professionals in an online marketplace making it quicker and cheaper for companies to hire tech talent. The service, which started in Ireland, is available in Dublin, London, Berlin and now Moscow – …
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Artem Kulizhnikov, founder of a startup designed to help musicians annotate music, is packing his bags to leave Moscow in December. His destination: Dubai or Singapore, where he sees a better chance of securing funding for his second company. “Russian venture-capital funds want to invest their money only in Russia, but we want to build an international business and …
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Russia and South Korea are ready to step up joint R&D efforts in IT and a number of high-tech areas. Envoys of the two partners’ political, business and scientific circles reached preliminary agreements on this and other matters last month in Seoul. Commenting on the results of the talks, Oleg Plaksin of RVC, Russia’s state-owned …
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AmazingHiring, a Moscow-based service for finding IT professionals, has attracted $500,000 in a second seed round, with equal contributions brought in by SMRK, a Kiev-based venture fund, and Altair, the seed-stage fund backed by Russo-Austrian serial investor Igor Ryabenkiy. The startup is developing a search engine and browser plug-in for Chrome that recruiters can use to search …
Communications and Mass Media Minister Nikolai Nikiforov has announced that “no quicker” than in three years the ministry plans to develop such a strong IT sector that the country no longer needs foreign software. “We are aiming for total IT sovereignty in Russia. And it’s achievable in principle. Russia has always been renowned for its programmers,” …
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