Caissa in 2018: A Year in Review
Just a handful of days are left till the end of the year. Looking back at 2018, we’d like to sum up all the beautiful, silly, and insightful things that we’ve done, experienced, participated in, created, enjoyed, laughed about, learned…
New in 2018
→ A new Team member (Lily) + one more 👤 to start in 2019 (stay tuned!)
→ One of us got married 👰 and another one had a baby born 👶
→ We did 1 Survey 📜:
→ …and 1 event 📢:
→ Our Team had two big gets-together in Berlin 🎉🎉 (and fell in love with the city even more)
→ The Myth of a “Rockstar Developer”, our article, got 1.3K reads on HackerNoon 📰
→ Konstanty started a video blog 📹
Fun facts
→ Our shortest recruitment process ⏳ lasted 4 days (including the weekend!)
→ One of Ewelina’s longest boolean search strings: 2611 characters 🏆
→ Our Team were approached dozens of times about engineering jobs (sorry, we stopped counting) 👯
→ Our most prevalent hires in 2018 were Java Developers ☕
Talking about money…
Our candidates’ average offers in Berlin:
- Frontend Developers — € 62,000
- Java Developers — € 63,800
- Scala Developers — € 63,700
- Ruby Developers — € 58,800
- PHP Developers — € 64,500
- DevOps Engineers — € 68,600
Other learnings
→ Summers in Berlin can be incredibly hot and last 5 months… 🔥
→ There are misunderstandings between candidates and companies when it comes to the hiring process. Fortunately, the dialogue is possible. 🙌
→ There are so many new cool tech companies in Berlin! 💥
That’s about it from us in 2018.
Enjoy your holidays! 🎄🎄🎄
And we hope to see you in 2019!
♘ The Caissa Team
