Student Insider: Keyhole News
If you rewind the film about eleven years ago (in some cases the figure is smaller, in some more, but this is not the point), then we recall how once upon a time at the university, or already sitting at a lecture, we really wanted to start working as soon as possible . We waited for a sign where to direct forces to succeed, or did not wait, but asked questions to those who are a little more experienced. But what if someone suggested we take a look at the keyhole and see ourselves in the future for a moment, or even a few hours? Maybe even meet your colleagues. In fact, this is - Student Insider.
The first EPAM student conference gathered in one room more than 130 people who were not indifferent to their future profession. They invited mainly second and third year students, because this audience already has enough knowledge. For those who did not have time to register or simply could not attend the conference, a live broadcast was conducted.
Olga Fedorinchik, Senior Marketing Specialist EPAM:
Openness and willingness to share knowledge is a characteristic feature of this conference. The EPAM experience includes the expertise of 25 thousand colleagues around the world, which is why the speakers talked about real cases from practice and answered all, even the most tricky questions. For example, what is better .Net or Java.
Alexander Shaduro, who spoke with the report “.Net - is fashionable!”, Had to find an answer.
Alexander Shaduro, Lead Resource Development Lab Head EPAM:
To answer the already familiar question “How to enter IT”, a panel discussion was organized at the conference where colleagues in the field, but not in expertise, each told their own story. The youngest IT person in this conversation, Olga Chausova, has been in EPAM for six months. She went through the laboratory and now works as a tester in the company. The most seasoned in this dialogue, Nikita Syskov, celebrated 11 years in the field. “The secret is that there is no success,” the statement began with these words, “the secret is to achieve success every day again and again, to constantly grow and develop.” Each of the speakers told a story: Maxim Borisov - about how he became a UX designer, Yuri Semenov - about the path to business analytics, and Vadim Anisimov about how he came from trade to IT and never regretted it. In this discussion, most of the time was devoted to a Q&A session.
No less questions were asked to Vadim Volkov, who spoke about a rare profession in the field.
Vadim Volkov, Chief Performance Analyst EPAM:
The reports in two streams were arranged to cover the maximum number of directions. There was also a talk about Data Science: Mikhail Karanik compared expectation and reality, Ivan Isachenko revealed the secret in the report “Who are you, Mr. BI”, Viktor Vedmich dispelled 7 myths about DevOps, Andrey Zhilka allowed listeners to look under the hood of EPAM Garage, and Valentina Thunder told how to change the country without changing jobs.
A separate block was devoted to testing. Olga Polstyuk devoted her report to artificial intelligence in testing, and Vitaly Shulga, together with the audience, was looking for the answer to the question, what is automated testing - the “killer” of manual testing, a fashion trend or a silver bullet?
Vitaly Shulga, Test Automation Lab Head:
Vitaly devoted another report to the hype blockchain topic. With the advent of cryptocurrencies, we expected to see the digital economy with its bonuses in action and the emergence of smart contracts. And they got a lot of unresolved questions, the answers to which the whole world has been looking for 10 years.
In order not to spend as much time searching for an answer to the eternal "who I want to be," Student Insider was definitely worth a visit. Live communication with those who walked along this path several years ago will definitely help those who are looking for find it. Well, you must admit, peeking into a keyhole is always curious.
The first EPAM student conference gathered in one room more than 130 people who were not indifferent to their future profession. They invited mainly second and third year students, because this audience already has enough knowledge. For those who did not have time to register or simply could not attend the conference, a live broadcast was conducted.
Olga Fedorinchik, Senior Marketing Specialist EPAM:
“The students were in great demand. We even had to close the registration a week earlier than we planned. This suggests that activities targeted at the student audience are not enough. And this leads to the idea that it is worth developing the student community, and such events are part of the global work. We create a platform not only for the exchange of knowledge of "senior and junior" in the profession, but also for students to communicate with each other. At the conference, the agenda was made in such a way that students learned about the development opportunities in production, and that we have many non prod areas. For example, projects for doctors, which were described by Ivan Zatsepin, our volunteering in IT in a report by Maria Bryantseva and Inna Efimchuk ... You can participate in volunteer projects without being an employee of the company. ”
Openness and willingness to share knowledge is a characteristic feature of this conference. The EPAM experience includes the expertise of 25 thousand colleagues around the world, which is why the speakers talked about real cases from practice and answered all, even the most tricky questions. For example, what is better .Net or Java.
Alexander Shaduro, who spoke with the report “.Net - is fashionable!”, Had to find an answer.
Alexander Shaduro, Lead Resource Development Lab Head EPAM:
“My report is worth seeing to those who are currently in the process of choosing a technology or framework with which they plan to associate a career. There are many articles on this subject, but as a rule the discussion ends with a holivar. The main favorites for enterprise development are, of course, .NET and JAVA. Of course, no one drops C, C ++, Ruby on Rails or PHP, but they have a rather narrow niche. But people still want not only stability, but also want to be sure that the technology will continue to develop, and they along with it. An example would be Azure or .NET Core from Microsoft. I think Java with its conservatism is losing the .Net evolution. Our "dark side" (and for me in "Star Wars" still rule the dark forces), although more unpredictable, but more driving. I wanted to tell and show that.
To answer the already familiar question “How to enter IT”, a panel discussion was organized at the conference where colleagues in the field, but not in expertise, each told their own story. The youngest IT person in this conversation, Olga Chausova, has been in EPAM for six months. She went through the laboratory and now works as a tester in the company. The most seasoned in this dialogue, Nikita Syskov, celebrated 11 years in the field. “The secret is that there is no success,” the statement began with these words, “the secret is to achieve success every day again and again, to constantly grow and develop.” Each of the speakers told a story: Maxim Borisov - about how he became a UX designer, Yuri Semenov - about the path to business analytics, and Vadim Anisimov about how he came from trade to IT and never regretted it. In this discussion, most of the time was devoted to a Q&A session.
No less questions were asked to Vadim Volkov, who spoke about a rare profession in the field.
Vadim Volkov, Chief Performance Analyst EPAM:
“Most students most likely think that there are two professions in IT: programmers and testers. In fact, there are many more professions. And some of them are specific and interesting. About one of these, I told. Performance analytics is a cross between administration, testing, and programming. We know how to make large, complex computer systems work as efficiently as possible. And we, people with this profession, are few in number. ”
The reports in two streams were arranged to cover the maximum number of directions. There was also a talk about Data Science: Mikhail Karanik compared expectation and reality, Ivan Isachenko revealed the secret in the report “Who are you, Mr. BI”, Viktor Vedmich dispelled 7 myths about DevOps, Andrey Zhilka allowed listeners to look under the hood of EPAM Garage, and Valentina Thunder told how to change the country without changing jobs.
A separate block was devoted to testing. Olga Polstyuk devoted her report to artificial intelligence in testing, and Vitaly Shulga, together with the audience, was looking for the answer to the question, what is automated testing - the “killer” of manual testing, a fashion trend or a silver bullet?
Vitaly Shulga, Test Automation Lab Head:
“Automator is a person who saves time and money of the customer. And the one who allows you to free colleagues from routine tasks: checks, accurate data entry, working with the API. All this can be automated. The advantages are obvious: the program will never get tired, will not miss an extra character, will not be distracted for lunch and works without sleep and days off. The program can perform 1,000 tests per hour, while a person will take a week. Without it, releases of iPhones, VR-glasses and many other technologies very popular today are impossible. It frees people time for analytics, decision making and exploratory testing - for something that the machine can not yet do. But automation is not always cost-effective: if the project is short-term or too expensive for automation, then manual testing is necessary. ”
Vitaly devoted another report to the hype blockchain topic. With the advent of cryptocurrencies, we expected to see the digital economy with its bonuses in action and the emergence of smart contracts. And they got a lot of unresolved questions, the answers to which the whole world has been looking for 10 years.
In order not to spend as much time searching for an answer to the eternal "who I want to be," Student Insider was definitely worth a visit. Live communication with those who walked along this path several years ago will definitely help those who are looking for find it. Well, you must admit, peeking into a keyhole is always curious.
