There are so many interesting tech startups here in Finland but too many are under the radar for most. That's why we decided to introduce some of the coolest of the cool!

Niklas is a software developer who was hoping to land a job that gets him working with JavaScript. The wish came true and he now works at Houston Inc., an agile software company, with ~80 easygoing Houstonians.

The first ever board meeting focused on the current status of Talented as well as how to improve a) the Talent experience in onboarding and b) the Talented community.

From developers' point of view, it’s easy to see that IT-recruitment is broken. We wanted to change the silly policies that direct IT recruitment in the wrong direction, and create a business model where the talent wins. Always.

In the first part, Jordan wrote about how to find in-demand talents. Here he focuses on screening the suitable candidates and selling the company to them.

Good developers are hard to find, and Jordan knows that even the most desirable places face strong competition. He wrote his thoughts about the matter and named a few strategies on how to employ in-demand talents.

Jaakko is a software developer turned DevOps consultant whose fav programming language is Kotlin. After having worked at Cake Solutions for almost 3 years in Manchester, he’s now back in Finland and already in new boots at Polar Squad.

Irina has been doing programming since 2010 and during her career, she's been the only female coder in the team in most of the cases. Here she shares what she has learned from her male colleagues.

Talented Epic Summer Party 6000 was held on June 7th at gorgeous Villa Grande. Hot sauna, cold drinks and guests covered in glitter. What else would you need!