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People — Biggest Asset in Offshore/Nearshore Software Development Outsourcing
Best software engineering minds
People are our biggest asset. Thanks to EPAM's reputation of the market leader and the diversity of offshore software development centers across Central/Eastern Europe and Russia, we have the most talented IT minds on board boasting top-notch technical educational background (over 70% hold IT, math, or science university degrees and over 18% are finishing their pre-graduate studies), real-world software development experience, and unquenchable desire to perform and deliver results.
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IT offshoring: It's not just for India anymore |
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| "Maynard McAlpin, vice president for strategic planning at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, said that many of EPAM's workers have engineering and science degrees, which he believes has added to the quality of the development work. "I used to think that any Java developer is a Java developer. But what I found is there is a huge difference between someone who is a developer and someone who does engineering," said McAlpin, who added that the developers have taken on some complex work. "We had some tricky things for them to figure out," he said." |
Ongoing professional development
We keep our associates motivated to enrich and expand the mix of software development skills and aptitude by creating the environment and opportunities that would facilitate ongoing professional advancement. Well above 90% employee retention rate for the last 5 years signifies the appreciation of the effort we put into the resource development.
At EPAM, we place great emphasis on education and make heavy investment in the field by supporting employees' participation in internal as well as external trainings and certifications. We specifically pursue partner engagements with leading IT schools and training houses across our nearshore and offshore development locations.
Thus every EPAM's newcomer attends a 2-week intensive training course to delve into the adopted corporate and production processes. Based on the results of the additional trainings on software development technologies and tools delivered to the EPAM applicants within 1,5 to 2 months, we hire those with greater potential. Altogether, on average, an EPAM employee receives 10 to 15 days of ongoing training per year.
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From Russia with Love |
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| "EPAM has this untapped resource of tremendous talent... By using 30 EPAM programmers, ServiceWare has cut developer costs by more than 60% in the past few years." |
An early start
At EPAM we are always on the watch for new sources of promising IT talent. We understand the importance of supporting educational initiatives of the leading technical universities and research institutions in word and deed: lectures delivered by our experts on cutting-edge real-world technologies, EPAM Training Center facilities for promising students, sponsorship of international programming competitions and Olympiads for students — are all a part of our contribution into upbringing of the world's software engineering elite.
Learning on the job
By serving such global software powerhouses as Microsoft, SAP, and BEA Systems, we gain a unique competitive advantage of providing our customers specific software development, application integration, and application re-engineering services in the early stages of a cutting-edge platform or product development. It is also an invaluable opportunity for our software engineers to build a high-demand skill set and advance the technological competence.
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Eastern Europe's Software Solution |
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"At the core they're extremely good engineers," says Andrew Parker, a vice-president at Forrester Research (FORR) in Amsterdam who specializes in IT services and outsourcing. "They have the kind of solid relationships in the West that only a few others can claim.
EPAM also tests new products or develops components for software, such as Microsoft business applications or programs designed for a specific task. That kind of work also helps EPAM hone its expertise and improve its services to other clients. For example, EPAM was involved with SAP's Netweaver software while it was still being perfected."
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Knowledge Management
We see knowledge management as one of the critical factors that drive the employees' motivation to perform and excel. At EPAM we encourage knowledge sharing among the colleagues and contribute to the process by providing the necessary resources and tools.
Another perfect way of getting on the fast track of the latest development standards, sharing insight into the best approaches and practices in utilizing cutting-edge technologies and tools, and propel knowledge and valuable project experience our employees really appreciate is participation in internal focused software development conferences which are quite common at EPAM.
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