Pymetrics is a soft skills platform redefining hiring and talent management. They use data-driven behavioral insights and audited AI to create a more efficient, effective, and fair hiring process across the talent lifecycle. As Pymetrics looked to scale their engineering team, they ran into roadblocks and realized they needed a more streamlined hiring process. Engineering […]
Percolate is a leading content marketing platform, built by marketers for marketers. They build solutions to introduce visibility into the marketing process, improve coordination of work, and effectively build marketing campaigns and content. After offshoring for mobile development, Percolate wanted more team integration for their primary application. With main offices in New York, San Francisco, […]
ProdPerfect is built to serve software startups. They exist to solve the hardest, most important, and until-now unsolved problem in end-to-end (E2E) quality assurance testing: identifying, with data, what should be tested. When the ProdPerfect team was ready to scale their engineering team, they knew time was of the essence. They needed both test and […]
Crossover Health believes that meaningful change stems from innovative ideas. Their mission is to design a better way to deliver and pay for health while engaging and guiding a community of members. They do this by offering digital-first, integrated healthcare that is accessible to anyone, anywhere in the United States. They leverage technology and data […]
With the Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) market expected to increase by $1.5 trillion by 2026, a digital-first approach is critical to the future of payments. Leading payment technology provider, Stax, offers innovative solutions for software platforms (ISVs) looking to embed payments, as well as individual customers ranging from small businesses to large enterprises. As Stax […]
In 2020, 20% of Americans identified as unpaid caregivers, and 26% of that cohort reported difficulty with coordinating care. Wellthy provides services and solutions for individuals and families with complex, chronic, and ongoing care needs. By supporting users with finding providers, scheduling appointments, and navigating other administrative tasks related to caregiving, Wellthy hopes to transform […]
GitHub is a code hosting platform for version control and collaboration. It lets software developers work together on projects from anywhere. GitHub provides one of the most widely used tool sets for supporting the software development lifecycle in the world. As Covid forced more companies to operate on a distributed basis, GitHub’s products, providing collaboration […]
Founded in 2015, Mastercard Foundry is part of Mastercard’s broader commitment to connect one billion people to the digital economy by 2025. In 2017, Mastercard Foundry sought to expand its engineering teams to help scale the products that had shown promise in the market. Over the past four years, 10 Andela engineers have contributed to key […]
According to London & Partners, $51.3B was invested in global healthtech startups in 2021. Still, with this influx of investment, technical challenges need to be solved in order for innovation to take place. How can engineering teams in the healthcare industry meet these challenges and keep their company at the cutting edge? Our latest whitepaper, […]
See what the talent landscape has to offer in 2022 The past two years have completely shifted the talent and recruiting landscape for both companies and candidates. Many companies have considered moving to a fully remote workplace, while more candidates prefer or expect flexible working options. Meanwhile, talent shortages continue to be a major challenge […]
As financial services firms set their eyes on emerging markets around the world, a top 10 global investment bank needed more capacity to rapidly yet safely expand the footprint of its offerings. With more of the bank’s business moving to digitally driven products, the bank partnered with the Andela Learning Community to access over 100,000 […]
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Mindshare, the global media agency network and a part of WPP, is the maker of Synapse, a flagship product that ingests marketing data from advertisers and provides predictive simulations showing how marketing spend will drive customer behaviors and ultimately growth for many of the world’s most influential brands. Mindshare was growing the data science and […]
All major data benchmarks indicate that remote work is much more than just a passing trend, and for many innovative tech companies, a distributed workforce model is here to stay. This can be attributed to a variety of factors. On the employer side, organizations are starting to embrace the fact that talent is boundaryless and […]
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GitHub is a code hosting platform for version control and collaboration. It lets software developers work together on projects from anywhere. GitHub provides one of the most widely used tool sets for supporting the software development lifecycle in the world. As Covid forced more companies to operate on a distributed basis, GitHub’s products, providing collaboration […]
There’s no question that measuring software development ROI is… controversial. But as engineering leaders, you still need to prove the value of your team’s work. But how? Do you measure based on development frequency or sprint velocity? Internal employee survey scores? Process or collaboration? In this on-demand webinar, co-hosted by Andela and Jellyfish, we bring […]
Is remote staff augmentation right for you and your business? Read on to find out.
So you want to hire great engineers. Cost-effectively. And as soon as possible. But with the demand for great engineers rapidly growing, big companies scooping up all your talent (ahem Microsoft), and your unmet product roadmap goals tormenting you, do you know if your current talent acquisition strategy is actually working? Watch our newest on-demand […]
Lantern, a public benefit corporation, is a single source of guidance for navigating life before and after a death. The team had a three-month deadline to rewrite its entire product. Every day they weren’t hiring, they were losing time as new releases introduced bugs in their core platform with every commit and deploy. Technical Lead, […]
Headquartered in Chicago, Vibes is an international leader in mobile marketing engagement, helping brands build personal relationships with consumers by delivering compelling and profitable mobile conversations. With so much competition for engineering talent, Vibes was finding it difficult to hire top developers quickly and cost-effectively. They also wanted a hiring solution that went above and […]
Lessonly’s software enables businesses to quickly and easily build “powerfully simple” training that enables teams to learn and grow. As the company was moving upmarket, it needed new products and features and some existing ones had to be upgraded. The Lessonly team was trying to take their product to the next level for enterprise clients […]
Based in Austin, Medici had a challenge many local tech firms faced—competition for engineers was driving up the cost and time required to hire top talent. At the same time, the company is very selective when growing its teams, making hiring even more difficult. Getting the right people on the team for Medici was extremely […]
This month’s workshop will be facilitated by Brian Douglas – Staff Developer Advocate at GitHub. The move to GraphQL marked a larger shift in GitHub’s Platform strategy towards more transparency and more flexibility in our API. Over the past few years, GitHub has been iterating on their schema to bring it closer towards feature completeness and strengthening the use for […]
Talks at Andela is a webinar series open to the tech ecosystem in Africa, with the aim of connecting tech thought-leaders and experts around the world with technologists in Africa, sharing experiences, lessons, and advice in multi-faceted tech and tech-related topics. Due to its low overhead and centralised management, companies often start building products under a […]
2020 has been a year of reacting to change for software teams. With 2021 just around the corner, how are you planning to right-skill and right-size to meet roadmaps and budgets?It’s time to get ahead of the game. Watch our discussion with GitHub VP of Engineering Dana Lawson, and IZEA Worldwide CTO V.J. LeBlanc to […]
Finding top software developers is extremely challenging for all businesses. Deep-pocketed tech giants offer high salaries and luxe benefits to attract the best engineers, leaving smaller companies and those outside tech hubs with few resources. A new form of staff augmentation—call it Staff Augmentation 2.0— has emerged to help CTOs quickly and cost-effectively build and […]
SalesRabbit’s software turns good outside sales reps into great ones and helps good businesses transform themselves into elite brands by powering a streamlined customer engagement experience. Finding great engineers to develop the great software the company on the roadmap was becoming increasingly difficult, and the pain caused by a few hiring miscues had made the […]
When 2U went into all-remote mode, the company was in uncharted territory—along with most of the world. The 50 person engineering team, about half of which worked in 2U’s Brooklyn office had to reorganize without slowing down as new and existing customers needed more support. “Working with Andela has raised the bar for what remote […]
KindHealth’s value proposition is simple: helping people save money on health insurance, medical bills and prescriptions. Because health plans, pricing, and regulations change every year, the complexity that the software team faces never ends. KindHealth was looking to ramp up its team and needed to quickly find specific skills with a limited budget while hiring […]
Great software engineers are hard to find, and remote engineering staffing businesses have arisen to give companies access to software developers with the skills you need. But not all staffing firms are created equal, and few are positioned to recruit and retain top talent. How do you know if a staffing agency has access to […]
Crossover Health needed to effectively scale their engineering team’s capacity without the significant costs that come with local hires. It was important that their existing engineering team be freed up to work on new areas crucial for business development, while maintaining the same quality of work in maintaining and expanding the feature set in their […]
ProdPerfect, as you might guess from the company’s name, has a lofty goal: to perfect software products through machine learning-driven automated testing. ProdPerfect was ready to scale the engineering team and time was of the essence. They were looking for test and automation experts to write scripts to build end-to-end JavaScript testing frameworks using Node.js, […]
Should I stay or should I go? That’s a looming question for CTOs when / if we emerge from all-remote work requirements. It has been two decades months since engineering teams around the world were abruptly forced into an all-remote mode. After the adjustment to pajama jokes and kids in meetings, it’s time to start thinking longer-term. […]
Talks at Andela is a webinar series open to the tech ecosystem in Africa, with the aim of connecting tech thought-leaders and experts around the world with techies on the continent, sharing experiences, lessons, and advice in multi-faceted tech and tech-related topics. For this webinar, we are having Jossif Tomash; Release Manager at Truecaller. Jossif has focused […]
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