The current inflow of IT professionals from Belarus could bring some $120 million of foreign currency to Ukraine each year, based on the estimate that 1,200 such people have moved to Ukraine since the beginning of the unrest in belarus in August. According to Ilya Neskhodovsky, who heads the Institute for Socio-Economic Transformation, each IT …
On October 4 President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree to facilitate the relocation of Belarusian IT professionals to Ukraine, following the example of several countries of the region. These measures target Belarusian IT programmers and entrepreneurs as well as their families. Starting from now, the maximum duration of their stay in Ukraine without a visa …
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Ukraine will introduce an immigration quota for 5,000 foreign information technology specialists per year, the Digital Transformation Ministry announced on Feb. 26. The quota will come into effect on March 2. Since the announcement was published, the ministry has already received requests from IT companies to offer jobs through the program, Oleksandr Bornyakov, the deputy minister, said. …
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Last week, as ThredUP, a leading US online platform to buy and sell second-hand clothing, announced a $175 million round of funding, the Ukrainian tech blog AIN.UA revealed that “almost half of [its] engineering team is based in Ukraine.” As many Silicon Valley companies, thredUP has difficulties in hiring programmers. “To fill technical vacancies thredUP …
Successful US startups raise millions and develop R&D offices in Ukraine Read More
“Technical training helped a new class of Ukrainian outsourcing professionals branch out into new markets,” says a new report about cross-border freelancing trends. Released in early August by international digital payment company Payoneer, the research is based on data from a sample of more than 300,000 freelancers, service providers and outsourcing professionals in the Payoneer …
Earlier this month Paymentwall, a global payment service provider with Ukrainian roots, but headquartered in San Francisco, announced the opening of a new research and development office in Kyiv (Kiev). The move is explained by the recent launch of new products by the company. This requires to hire and accommodate new personnel, reported local tech blog …
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise has shut down its Kyiv (Kiev) office. Now the Californian company will provide its services via an intermediary, Sophela, which has become its exclusive representative in the country. In a press release, HPE says it took this step to “optimize expenses in the current market environment,” but that the provision of services …
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Work.ua, an online resource which claims to “provide the very best job search service“ in Ukraine, is now available in English language. Thus, international employers may post their job offers and seek potential applicants more easily, while job seekers may use an English-language interface to post their resume. The site’s base of resumes and job …
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In late December, Lviv IT Cluster released the third edition of its research about the IT industry in this major city of Western Ukraine. Completed with support from the FAMA poll agency, the research included a poll involving over 800 local IT specialists, a review of the 317 identified IT companies and eight in-depth interviews with local …
Tech companies are viewed as good employers in Ukraine, mainly because of the relatively high salaries they offer. But there’s more to a good employer than good money — the brainpower industry of information technology also takes good care of its employees, its main asset. Apart from a generous compensation, it includes creating a comfortable …
Ukraine’s IT firms embrace corporate social responsibility Read More
Last week US President Donald Trump signed a decree “Buy American, employ American workers,” which strengthens the protection of certain goods produced in America and calls for a revision of the H-1B visa program. This program promotes the work of highly qualified foreign specialists in the US in order to reform this program. The working visas …
Trump’s decree could affect Ukrainian IT specialists Read More
Ukraine’s export IT segment showed an increase of 15 per cent in 2016, and continued to occupy the third place, by volume of total country exports, after agriculture and metallurgy. While we are speaking about the rates of growth, there are very solid grounds to expect that this positive tendency will be maintained and will …
How the human factor is boosting Ukraine’s promising IT export sector Read More
