Topic: tech insights

The OfferZen development team are attending ScaleConf this year. There were many excellent talks, but one that inspired us particularly was Michael Gorven’s talk on Continuous Delivery at Facebook. We took home a number of lessons we plan on applying at OfferZen. Michael is a production engineer at Facebook (on the Instagram team) and he shared how his team deploys backend code 40 times a day, to millions and millions of users. Michael Gorven https://github.com/mgorven The Instagram team run

by Malan Joubert

Topic: Uncategorised

This post is a quick summary of what's happened in the first 3 months of our existence. When we started OfferZen we wanted to be as transparent as possible about the company's growth, and to share our data as we learn more about the software development job market. Now that we're growing our tech team I'm finding myself coding less, and finally have more time to write! By the numbers More than 130 companies have applied to join OfferZen, of which 35 have been accepted and are actively hiring o

by Philip Joubert

Topic: Uncategorised

The #BreakTheRules team have built a world class event that attracts companies like Facebook, Amazon, ACI and Oracle. I’m proud to say that when #BreakTheRules takes place on 23 April this year they’ll be using OfferZen as the platform for companies and students to connect. What is #BreakTheRules? BreakTheRules is a student run initiative that help student developers from UCT find internships at local and international software companies. You can think of it like speed-dating for internships: p

by Philip Joubert

Topic: tech insights

tl;dr We built www.coworkingsa.co.za [https://www.coworkingsa.co.za/], a site that aggregates coworking spaces in South Africa. We need a bigger office When we launched OfferZen [https://www.offerzen.com/] in December we used our apartment as the office. For the most part this worked fine, but in January we started growing the team and realized we needed to find real offices. We didn’t want to tie ourselves into a long term rental contract, and someone had the idea of finding a private offic

by Philip Joubert

Topic: tech insights

I spent the past year in Silicon Valley and got to experience ground zero for tech innovation. It made me worried about the future of tech in South Africa.

by Malan Joubert