Hiring Romanian Developers

Maybe you’ll look on the map and see Romania is an Eastern European country, less developed, which you’ll think most definitely means fewer costs.

Maybe your investor recommends it as a rising IT hub with a great workforce.

Or maybe you have friends here or have previously worked with Romanian developers and you know the quality of their work.

No matter how the idea of hiring Romanian developers comes to your mind, one thing is for certain: it’s most definitely biased unless you do some research. So start here. Read about the three most important agents that define the Romanian IT market and will mould your business plan.

As with so many other things in life, when you think about hiring new people it seems easy. Post the job description, wait for the candidates to apply in their hundreds and worry about how you are going to filter all of them. Yeah, you get it, it’s not like that. But why might you ask?

Because it’s IT we are talking about.

Every developer that you want in your team is already taken, working on an interesting project, using latest technologies, and on top, is on a very competitive payroll and bonus schema. You need strategy, plan, resources and a lot of patience to succeed in attracting the talent you want, and to accomplish that is nothing but easy.

Perhaps the best way to look at Employer Branding, as a concept, is by asking yourself this simple question: “Does the market know who we are?” And by market, I mean current employees, future candidates, clients, stakeholders - basically the whole ensemble. I’ll explain here why this is important.

Extreme Programming, Feature-Driven Development, Crystal Methods, Scrum, Dynamic Systems Development, and Adaptive Software Development: What do they all have in common? Cooperative software development.

While innate intellectual abilities and programming experience underlie performance under traditional settings, the new demands yield for interpersonal skills when creating teams of software developers under the Agile umbrella.

We have been receiving lots of messages and questions from junior programmers along the way. Whether it was live, at a dedicated tech event, or via email, we loved all your questions and decided to compile a few of the answers that can speed up the process of boarding into your first role as a programmer. Take a look!

As you may already know, we are a team of psychologists, so we have an intense sense of analyzing the consequences of every decision we make that affects our team, on several levels: productivity, well-being, confidence, motivation, future career. Remote work is one of those very important cases and we want to share the ideas we got from doing it.

An introduction to the technology we're using, built in-house or SaaS, while trying to achieve growth and better efficiency in IT recruitment.

Job interviews can be stressful. We understand that.

They get you out of your comfort zone, force you to pitch a self-selling marketing tone that’s so not you or come up with desirable answers on the spot.

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But we’re good peeps and we want to really help out.

JavaScript is amongst top 3 most popular programming languages around the world, no doubt about it. But it hasn’t always been like this. And the story goes a little something like this. In mid 90’s the predominant programming language was Java, a language that was fairly difficult to learn and somewhat too sophisticated for simple applications. And this is where Netscape comes into play.