The High Cost of Poorly Onboarding Remote Engineers
Poor onboarding can be devastating to engineering teams. A Bamboo survey found that 33 percent of tech workers quit a job within six months of their start date. One-third reported that a lack of...
View ArticleGoogle Africa Developer Scholarship 2020 is Live
Registration is now open for the Google Africa Developer Scholarship program supported by Grow with Google, Andela, and Pluralsight. Software engineers (and aspiring software engineers) looking to...
View ArticleSetting up for success while working from home
This post is an excerpt from an internal company email sent by our CEO Jeremy Johnson to all Andela employees, as part of an ongoing series of update emails to touch base with everyone during the...
View ArticleHow Andela Onboards Remote Engineers
Onboarding takes a different flavor when an entire team is remote. Onboarding all-remote engineers is different still. Engineers work together in a unique way, sharing codebases and using internal best...
View ArticleSoftware Engineering Staff Augmentation vs Outsourcing in Uncertain Times
In the immediate aftermath of global COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders, job postings for software engineers fell by 20-30 percent. Clearly, many firms put hiring plans on hold. At the same time,...
View ArticleHow to Hire Software Engineers in an All-Remote World
Managers that need to hire software engineers post-COVID-19 pandemic face a new challenge–hiring and onboarding new employees without an office. The standard rituals of back-to-back-to-back office...
View ArticleWhy Remote Staff Augmentation Makes Sense in an Agile Environment
In tough economic times, the business mantra tends to be “do more with less.” The focus shifts from enabling growth to efficiency and the right use of resources while still meeting roadmaps....
View ArticleRemote Engineering Staff Augmentation Aids the Race to Digitize
While the economic shock and aftershocks of the global pandemic continue to ripple through the economy, there are pockets of growth in some sectors. In software engineering, the need for “remote...
View ArticleTips for Handling Remote Team Emergencies
Guest post by Ashley Kent. If your company is in the process of transitioning to a remote team, there’s often an adjustment period when it comes to managing everyday issues as well as more serious...
View ArticleThe complete guide to Debug Swift code with LLDB
This guide contains the following content to ease your journey to become an lldb ninja: — Object inspection — Code modification — Breakpoints manipulation — Tips and tricks Object inspection In this...
View ArticleAndela Named “Next Billion-Dollar Startup” by Forbes
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How to keep engaging your tech community in a fully-remote world
In-person (offline) tech community meetups have, for the longest time, been the major engagement platform for techies the world over. It wasn’t uncommon to see tech communities in your city or country...
View ArticlePartners in Delivery: Andela’s Model of Remote Software Engineering Staff...
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses are looking to streamline operations and find new efficiencies. Remote staff augmentation is emerging as an option that can help by building...
View ArticleEngineering Staff Augmentation: Flexible Hiring without Compromising Quality
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View ArticleThe Next Normal: The Need for a Talent Roadmap to Meet Product Roadmaps
The COVID-19 crisis has been called a “before and after moment” for digital transformation–a broad term for the migration of internal and customer-facing processes and products to digital platforms....
View ArticleA Guide to Hosting Webinars for Your Company:
Webinars have become popular as a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Here at Andela, we continue to bridge the gap between Software Engineers in the continent and global tech thought leaders via...
View ArticlePreparing for What’s Next: Distributed Engineering Teams for Business Resilience
A Gartner a survey of 1,500 businesses, found that just 12 percent felt prepared for the COVID-19 crisis. While this is somewhat understandable given a hundred-year event, it also points to disaster...
View ArticleWhy Diverse Software Teams Are More Innovative
A 2018 Boston Consulting Group (BCG) study of 1700 companies in eight countries found that businesses with above-average diversity realize 9 percent higher margins and 19 percent more revenue from...
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Telehealth Company, Medici, Leverages Andela to Improve Products
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...
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Lessonly Hires Andela Engineers and Moves Upmarket With Enterprise Solutions
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...
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