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• Best Again: ITMO Tops AI Alliance Ranking of Universities in AI

  Recently, AI Alliance has published its second ranking of Russian universities that provide training in the field of AI. Like last year, ITMO was placed among the leaders, alongside the Higher School of Economics (HSE) and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). 

  22.07.2024

• Meet Russia’s First AI Service for Outstaffing IT Teams

  Students of the Artificial Intelligence Master’s program by ITMO’s AI Talent Hub and Napoleon IT have created an AI-powered platform for browsing job offers and hiring IT experts. Talent Matcher helps novice specialists find suitable internships faster; startups and corporations can turn to the service to assemble efficient teams for their projects. Currently, the online platform is used by over 5,000 people and 89 companies, including Wildberries, Napoleon IT, Rabota.ru, RuTube, and X5 Tech.

  14.06.2024

• How To Get Your First Offer in Infosec

  Companies are experiencing a shortage of cybersecurity professionals. One-third of Russian businesses are searching for specialists in this field. Employers are often on the lookout for mid-level experts, however nearly half of those surveyed are also lacking interns. How can you increase your chances of a job offer? Where should you seek work experience if you don’t have any? And what should and shouldn’t you include in your CV? Anastasiia Krasnova, an IT recruiter at Avito, tackled all these questions at Positive Hack Days Fest 2.

  10.06.2024

• ITMO IT Graduates' Salaries Continue to Increase

  According to the latest ranking of Russian universities based on the salaries earned by graduates in the IT industry, conducted by the research center SuperJob, the average salary of ITMO graduates working in IT has grown by 11% since last year. In 2024, an IT graduate’s average salary equals 260,000 rubles per month, making it the highest among graduates of St. Petersburg universities and second-highest in Russia.

  05.06.2024

• Recap of IT_Conf 3.0: Careers in IT, AI in Business and Cybersecurity

  What does the future hold for the IT sector? What role will AI play in it? And what does it take to thrive in IT today? At this year’s IT_Conf, experts from SberMarket, Yandex, VK, HeadHunter, MTS, Tinkoff, and ITMO covered these and other questions in great detail. Here are the highlights of the event.

  19.04.2024

• QA Engineers: What They Do and How to Become One

  Integrated software and hardware systems are used for many purposes, including to store databases for banks and hospitals, automate and monitor production, and manage outdoor lighting. To function swiftly and reliably, these systems are maintained by specialists, among whom are quality assurance (QA) engineers. We talked to Maksim Terichev, a software testing engineer at YADRO, to learn more about this job and the skills required to perform it.

  19.03.2024

• ITMO Named Leader in Training Digital Economy Specialists

  ITMO University made it into the top universities in St. Petersburg and Moscow that train IT professionals according to the recent ranking published by ANO Digital Economy with support from the Russian Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media.

  09.02.2024

• ITMO, HTML Academy and Yandex To Host Contest for Frontend Developers

  On February 18, HTML Academy online school will host Russia’s first national frontend development contest, organized in collaboration with ITMO and Yandex. Joining online, participants will solve real-life industry cases on developing web interfaces to be then ranked by their performance, as well as awarded within two categories – Best in Design and Best in JS. Those who make the top of the ranking, as well as winners in each category, will be invited for jobs or internships to Yandex and other leading Russian IT companies.

  18.01.2024

• ITMO Alumnus & YADRO Engineer On Developing Systems-on-Chips in Russia

  Six years ago, Viktor Ovchinnikov graduated from ITMO with a Master’s degree. Since then, he’s worked in various fields at companies like Arrival and Electrolux, where he developed an electric bus and security systems for the Internet of Things (IoT). Now, Viktor is a senior engineer in systems-on-chips programming at YADRO. In this interview, he shares tips for transferring from embedded development to other fields and sheds light on the industry of systems-on-chips. 

  01.11.2023

• Gamedev Leader at Lesta Games Shares His Path From Programming to Gamedev

  As a university student, Danila Lychkin went from a programmer at a Moscow-based company to a  team lead at an international corporation but ultimately decided to quit his job to pursue gamedev instead. Now, he heads the gamedev department at Lesta Games and oversees the production of World of Warships. In this interview, the former programmer weighs in on how to quit everything to chase after your dreams – and succeed.

  10.08.2023