Or how to play down with failed productions — The way we handle releases evolves a lot during our career. When we start our developer life, and for some us even long after, pushing the big red button can be a little scary. What if something goes wrong? What if our code is not that perfect? What if the whole site…

In OpenClassrooms, over the past year, important investments have been done to reinforce the Security and Privacy aspect of the company. Our approach is to make Security and Privacy accessible (like our company’s mission is to “make education accessible”). We decided to organize a first edition of the CyberSecurity Month…

It’s time for our team at OpenClassrooms to take a step back and look at everything we’ve achieved in the past year. So, what have we been up to? Let’s just say we’ve been busy! Read on to find out… Our organization Recruit The last time we wrote about our team at OpenClassrooms…

My ongoing “real life” journey to Quality Assistance If you work in the Quality World you’ve probably heard of Quality Assistance, but how much do you really know about it? When I arrived at Openclassrooms I was the first to wonder what this Quality Assistance buzz was all about “for real”. There are some great articles ( here…

Why have we changed our team name? — Terminology and the research around it is an important part of our work. We spend time reflecting on how we name our offers, our features, and even the smallest elements that make them up. We do all this while respecting our principles: be clear, conversational, accessible, and purposeful. So why…

Stumbling upon this article explaining how Doctolib managed to handle hundreds of onboardings per month made me realise how much we progressed at OpenClassrooms on the same subject. We already presented how it was lived from a newcomer perspective, let’s see how it goes from the IT side. Last year…

One year ago, I wrote an article on accessibility at OpenClassrooms without any idea of the repercussions it would have on my everyday life. That article was linked to my objective for the first half of 2021, and this one corresponds to my objective for 2022. My second objective for…

What do you want to do when you grow up? We have all heard this question at least once in our life as a child, as a teenager, or after graduating high school. The possible answers are endless but often difficult to find. It took me more than 30 years…

No, it isn’t only to be proud of ourselves! — It’s normal today to test your codebase. Any company whose business is based on a technical solution has implemented an automated testing solution. We’re all in agreement on that. Now the question is: “What should we test?” In this article, we are not going to talk about the different types…