5 Tips to Find and Hire Software Developers
The race for hiring software developers hit a new level last year, and it’s about to get even more competitive. Here are 5 practical tips to get you going.
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The 5 Non-Technical Skills Any Great Software Developer Needs
By Jeremy Johnson, Entrepreneur With less than 1 percent unemployment in many technical fields and a skills gap that’s widening, finding a job as a software developer may not seem like the most challenging professional hurdle. But it’s also true that it still takes more than just technical skills to advance through the ranks […]
5 Top Mistakes Hiring Managers Make When Recruiting Software Developers
By Jeremy Johnson as published in Entrepreneur The tech world prides itself on its ability to push boundaries and question long-held assumptions, but it is all too easy for hiring managers to get trapped in traditional hiring mindsets, especially when they recruit software developers. Here are the top five mistakes they tend to […]
The Pros and Cons of Hiring a Distributed Workforce When Talent Is Scarce
By Jeremy Johnson as published in Entrepreneur It wasn’t long ago that labor came in two varieties: in-house or outsourced. Today, however, the team dynamic is increasingly shifting to a distributed workforce: employees work in a range of locations from the office, to home, to off-site locations, while some juggle multiple locations in the same […]
Is Africa Hiding the Next Mark Zuckerberg?
By Jeremy Johnson and Iyinoluwa Aboyeji as published on The Wall Street Journal On May 14th, 1984, Mark Zuckerberg was born in Westchester County, N.Y., to a dentist and a psychiatrist. Twenty years later, he launched the initial version of “Thefacebook” out of his Harvard dorm room. In August, a decade after opening to […]
4 Reasons Africa is the Rising Star of the Tech World
By Jeremy Johnson, CEO & Co-Founder of Andela With the world’s youngest, fastest-growing population, Africa is also the world’s largest source of untapped talent. But that talent pool is starting to be tapped as tech employers, large and small, turn their attention to the continent’s potential. There are many economic, cultural, political and […]
Talking Talent with Stack Overflow & The Muse
Last week, in honor of the two Andela developers in town from Lagos, Nigeria, we hosted an event at Fueled with Jon Chan, head developer evangelist from Stack Overflow, and Yusuf Simonson, CTO of The Muse. The evening offered us and others in the ecosystem a chance to peer into the minds of two super […]
Why Udacity Chose Andela to Accelerate their Tech Team
“With Andela…We actually took a project that took 90 days and did it in 45.” Meet Udacity – creators of the “Nanodegree,” builders of an online university and one of Andela’s latest partner success stories. Udacity needed to quickly scale their tech team to build platforms that supported email marketing and connected graduates with […]
Tech Talent Born in Africa Will Play a Transformational Role in IT
By Gary Beach as published in CIO Journal of The Wall Street Journal By 2025 I guarantee every chief information officer reading this column will employ staff in Africa in some capacity. My unorthodox prediction is based on data culled from “The Skills Gap Almanac,” a project I manage on Twitter at #skillsgapalmanac. […]
New Guys- An Orientation For Offshore Colleagues
By Lizzie Widdicombe, New Yorker It’s tough being the new guy at work. There are protocols to master, computer programs to navigate, desk locations to commit to memory. Then there are the social perils, best encapsulated by an old Onion headline: “INTERN STRIKES UP FRIENDSHIP WITH LEAST-RESPECTED EMPLOYEE.” When Tolu Komolafe and […]
Stack Overflow and Andela partner to provide education beyond borders
By Jon Chan, Stack Exchange When I think about the impact that Stack Overflow has had on the world, it’s tempting for me to think about numbers: how many active users we have, how many questions are answered in a day, how many jobs get posted on our Careers platform. These are things that […]
This is Andela
The journey that led us to start Andela began some time ago. In 2008, I co-founded 2U, an education technology company whose mission is to bring great universities online. By working with universities like Georgetown, Berkeley, and Northwestern, we helped build the first generation of online programs that had better student outcomes – graduation rates, […]
