IT COFFEE BREAK

Meet our newest colleague, Dominika Hruskova. 

She joined EPAM three months ago and has great plans for this year. 

Let’s explore her professional and personal journey.

N.B: We start a new season of our IT coffee break podcast in collaboration with the Magenta Podcast Studio in Magenta Experience Center in Prague.

Join us as Sever Pop – Business Analysis Team Leader at EPAM, discusses some common BA myths and truths, and learn more about the role of a Business Analyst.

Timestamps:

· (00:00) – Intro, “This or that game.”

· (01:45) – Myth or Truth#1: Business Analyst (BA) professionals must have an IT background with strong technical skills.

· (04:15) – Myth or Truth#2: BAs require a business background.

· (09:30) – Myth or Truth#3: Business Analysis is all about documentation and requirements management, so there’s no role for a BA on an Agile Team.

· (15:30) – Myth or Truth#4: BA is about working with large datasets, number crunching and statistics

· (25:30) – Myth or Truth#5: It is easy to shift to a BA career

· (26:30) – Main takeaways and Outro

To help raise awareness for the Open Source (OS) projects at EPAM, we connected with Christopher Howard - Lead Open Source Program Manager at EPAM, and asked him a few questions!

Timestamps:

· (00:00) – Intro, “This or that game”

· (01:15) – Meet our co-host Chris Howard - Open-Source (OS) Lead at EPAM UK

· (02:30) – FAQ#1: What are the hidden costs of the OS software?

· (04:45) – FAQ#2: Why is there an upper trend of adopting OS projects?

· (07:00) – FAQ#3: Open-Source office (OSPO) at EPAM

· (08:30) – FAQ#4: OS projects at EPAM. OS contributor index

· (11:30) – FAQ#5: How to join OS projects at EPAM?

· (13:00) – FAQ#6: How does OS fit into the larger business goals of EPAM?

· (15:15) – FAQ#7: OS community at EPAM

· (17:30) – FAQ#8: Consultancy offerings at EPAM: OS excellence

· (20:30) – FAQ#9: Why contribute to OS projects?

· (23:15) – FAQ#10: Why use GitHub?

· (24:30) – FAQ#11: What’s the value of OS?

· (26:15) – Outro

Today we virtually step inside EPAM’s new office in the tech hub of Eastern Slovakia: Košice. Our guides are Scrum Master Zuzana Klimekova and Project Manager Liudmyla Melnykova. They share insider information about EPAM Košice. Listen on and tune in to learn all the details.

TIMESTAMPS:

· (00:00) – Intro, Quiz

· (03:30) – Q#1: Why did EPAM build an additional office in Košice?

· (04:50) – Q#2: WFH vs WFO mode: what are the opportunities at EPAM Slovakia?

· (08:45) – Q#3: What’s it like working at EPAM Slovakia?

· (12:45) – Q#4: What are the projects and tech stack at EPAM Slovakia?

· (15:45) – Q#5: What are the benefits of working at EPAM Slovakia?

· (20:15) – Q#6: What opportunities for career advancement are there in EPAM Slovakia?

· (22:00) – Q#7: How the projects are set up in EPAM Slovakia?

· (26:45) – Main takeaways and Outro

Today’s interview features Zuzana Klimekova, an experienced Scrum Master at EPAM Slovakia. Let’s explore more about her professional and personal journey!

A happy coincidence brought Jitka Tarhonska, People Lead of EPAM Czech Republic, to EPAM almost four years ago. She was about to terminate her employment with another company and decided to post her CV on a website. And in just 30 minutes, she received a call from an EPAM recruiter. She was so impressed with such speed and efficiency. How is EPAM so efficient and what is it like working at EPAM? Those are some of the tricky questions we’ve received from our readers and listeners who may be future EPAMers. Let’s learn from Jitka as she answers some FAQs.

Timestamps:

· (00:00) – Intro, Quiz

· (02:20) – FAQ#1: Why join EPAM Czech Republic?

· (06:10) – FAQ#2: What’s it like working at EPAM Czech Republic?

· (10:25) – FAQ#3: Are EPAMers happy with their work?

· (14:45) – FAQ#4: What’s the community life at EPAM like?

· (22:30) – FAQ#5: Where can you find all information about open positions?

· (28:45) – Main takeaways and Outro

Vítáme Vás u naší první epizody v češtině!📢

S ní probereme čím se zbývá EPAM, a zda-li jsou u EPAMu zaměstnanci spokojení!

Příjemný poslech!🎧

Mastering the language of your new country is a big part of your integration journey. At EPAM Czech Republic, we have Czech language courses for EPAMers and their family members so they can feel at home in Prague. However, we still hear a lot of myths about the Czech language. We’ve sat down with our Czech language trainer, Jakub Seiner, to understand how to learn Czech quickly and enjoy it.

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To mark Girls in Information and Communication Technology Day (ICT), we asked inspiring women of EPAM from Central Europe to share their thoughts. We wondered: what influenced them to pursue a career in IT, the impact of their role at EPAM, and their vision of women in tech!

What do you really need to know to ace your tech interview at EPAM? Today we look behind the scenes to learn what happens during a tech interview at EPAM and how decisions are really made. Our tech interviewer, Illia Sudakou, is a Lead Software Engineer at EPAM Prague. He has conducted more than 200 technical interviews so far. With him we inspect some common tech interview myths and discuss the coding tasks at EPAM.

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