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Topic: tech career insights

Fostering Talent - CodeX on Training the Next Generation of Coders

OfferZen met with the founders of coding programme CodeX, Michael Jordaan and Elizabeth Heathfield, to find out why it is hard to foster SA's talent.

by offerzen

Topic: Uncategorised

Reactifying OfferZen

We recently introduced React to OfferZen's frontend stack. Here our dev-team explains the approach they took migrating the frontend to React.

by Martin Pretorius

Topic: tech career insights

How to Set Your Hourly Rate as a Contract Developer

Simon Stewart is a freelance developer in South Africa. Here he shares what he has learned about setting an hourly rate and engaging with clients.

by Guest Author

Topic: tech insights

The Developer Languages Driving SA’s Top Companies

We decided to analyse developer languages further. Specifically we were interested to see which types of companies are hiring which languages.

by Harry Hands

Topic: salaries

Developer Salaries for Different Programming Languages

After analysing salary discrepancies between Johannesburg and Cape Town, we investigated the salary differences between programming languages.

by Harry Hands

Topic: tech insights

AMA with Estiaan le Roux - Head of Product at SnapScan

Estiaan le Roux is currently the Head of Product at SnapScan. The ZATech Slack community hosted an AMA with Estiaan on Friday, 2 June.

by Helené van Tonder

Topic: Uncategorised

Building OfferZen: Behind the Scenes of Our Product Team

We want to share how we decide what to build, plan the build and design the product. This should give you a good overview of how we do things at OfferZen.

by Gys Muller

Topic: tech insights

Inside JUMO's Development Team

JUMO [https://www.jumo.world/] is a financial services marketplace. Using behavioural data from mobile usage, their predictive technology creates highly accurate credit ratings for people - a “JUMO score”. Targeting emerging markets, 80% of JUMO-customers interact with banks for the very first time. Founded in 2015, JUMO currently operates in 6 African countries: Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Ghana, Uganda and Rwanda, and will soon be launching their services in Pakistan. In addition, the company ha

by Helené van Tonder

Topic: tech insights

How I quit Google and lost $100k - Interview with Jason Grishkoff

With Indie Shuffle, Jason Grishkoff created a successful music blog that once upon a time lost him $100 000 and many sleepless nights.

by offerzen

Topic: tech insights

Bootstrapper: Nic Harry - A business built on colorful socks

OfferZen asks Nic Haralambous about his bootstrapped project Nic Harry. Tapping into the gap of men's-accessories, his bamboo socks are now going global.

by offerzen

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