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Tech Talks: Setting standards for your technical assessments

📆 29 August   🕞  12.00 SAST 📍 Online
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53% of developers dislike technical assessments.

No one likes an audition, and even the most seasoned developer worries about choking when asked to demonstrate their skills under the pressure of a ticking clock. Plus, technical assessments are often poorly aligned with the job requirements and the candidate's experience. Point blank: the process is either broken or horribly inefficient. 

So what are the technical assessment best practices to ensure the best candidates rise to the top and are eager to accept your job offer?

In this panel, we’ll learn from Ilya Sakharov (CTO at Codility) and Dawie Greyling (Head of Quality Engineering at Old Mutual) on the best practices for technical assessments to build an eager, high-performing tech team.

Join the conversation to dive into:

  • 👉 How to spot and fix inconsistencies in your current technical assessments

  • 👉 How to create standards that align with your team’s and organisation’s needs

  • 👉 How to design technical assessments that accurately reflect the role and test a candidate’s real skills

  • 👉 The role of AI in technical assessments

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About the event

📅  29 February
⏰  18.00 - 19.00 SAST
📍 Online Webinar

Salary discussions are some of the most critical discussions to happen between managers and employees – but often the constraints are already set in company wide budget meetings.   

Managers who know how to advocate for their team members are better set up to navigate these budget conversations. A solid budget can make or break how satisfied your new hires and existing team members are with their compensation. To make matters even more complicated, salary is an individual experience that should be tackled on a case-by-case basis. 

Should you match a counter offer? Should team members with similar roles earn the same? Making mistakes when it comes to salary can be really painful and can cost you high performing team members in the long run.

In this event, we’ll deep dive into these challenges to set you up to win in salary conversations with your tech team.

Join the conversation with fellow tech leaders to delve into:

🚀 How to manage your salary budget and its impact on your team.
🚀 How to advocate for raises for your current team members.
🚀 How to benchmark salary according to the market with the latest insights from OfferZen’s State of the Developer Nation reports.  
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Meet our Speakers

Dawie Greyling
Head of Quality Engineering, Old Mutual

Dawie Greyling is a trailblazer in the world of software quality engineering, boasting over 20 years of dynamic experience. As the Head of Quality Engineering at Old Mutual, Dawie is at the forefront of driving agile transformation and setting high standards with robust governance in the organisation's Quality Engineering landscape.

Dawie’s journey in quality engineering is marked by innovative approaches and a relentless passion for excellence. He’s not just a leader; he’s a visionary who’s revolutionising how organisations perceive and implement software quality engineering. His work ensures that quality is embedded in every phase of the development lifecycle, delivering exceptional value and reliability.


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Ilya Sakharov
Chief Technology Officer, Codility

Based in Berlin since 2018, Ilya is a technology and engineering leader with more than 20 years of experience working in scale-ups, start-ups, and large enterprises. Passionate about everything related to people-technology connection, platform engineering, SRE, developer experience, and delivery efficiency. Before stepping into the CTO role, Ilya joined Codility as VP to run a platform and infrastructure organization.

Earlier, Ilya was leading the infrastructure alliance and core engineering function in hyper-growing rapid-delivery pioneer - Getir, and before that, Ilya spent several years with HelloFresh modernizing the QA organization and quality-related processes as well as establishing the SRE function, and leading the platform group. Preceding his move to Germany, Ilya worked with RSA Security, Microsoft, CA, and Cisco out of Israel.

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