SoftServe was founded in 1993 in Lviv by postgraduate students of local universities. In 2006 it opened the first corporate university in Ukraine. In order to develop employees, the company invests in their studies. Currently, the company’s offices are located in 12 countries. The company is headquartered in Lviv and Austin (Texas, USA). The company's development centers are located in Lviv, Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Sofia (Bulgaria) and Wroclaw, Bialystok, Gliwice, Warsaw (Poland).
This year SoftServe became a strategic partner of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. The company signed a Memorandum for a year, while sharing the ideas of education and science reform, recognizing the need to join efforts for digital transformation of education and science in Ukraine to build long-term trust in relations between state, business and society. SoftServe and the Ministry of Education and Science are working on the transformation of management processes in extracurricular education by creating and launching an information and analytical system “Extracurricular”. The solution will help with integration of the existing digital resources in the field of extracurricular education into a single centralized database and with introduction of an electronic educational system for extracurricular education institutions.
At Poltava Polytechnic, the company’s representatives shared their vision of solving the most pressing problems in the field of information technology. According to Volodymyr Plakushchenko, among the company’s worldview concepts is the creation of a space free of stereotypes.
SoftServe won gold in the Best Advance in Coaching and Mentoring category at the prestigious 2021 Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Leadership Development Awards. The award was given for the company’s ecosystem of individual-oriented development formats, including mentoring and coaching, which help employees increase personal efficiency, acquire new competencies, and improve leadership skills. In addition to SoftServe, the winners in this category are also Bank of America, Google Cloud, McKinsey, TD Bank, and Tata Consultancy.
“Our university is open to innovation, and it is important to fill each signed agreement with real doings. We have extensive experience in working with business and are happy to launch a new joint project. SoftServe was at the origins of the Ukrainian IT industry and has developed a large-scale business internationally. The experience in creating a special ecosystem of individual development of employees and modern approaches to teaching both specialized courses and the development of other important skills deserves special attention. Therefore, our cooperation will be mutually beneficial,” – commented the rector, Professor Volodymyr Onyshchenko. On behalf of the university, he concluded an agreement on scientific and educational cooperation and partnership.
The subject of the Agreement was close cooperation in the field of science, education and practical training of highly qualified IT specialists, exchange of practical cases and involvement of the company’s professionals. The curators of the joint project from the university were Acting Director of the Institute of Information Technologies and Robotics Volodymyr Pents and Kseniia Verhal, Candidate of Economic Sciences.
After concluding of the agreement, a meeting was held with university students to discuss the most pressing issues of higher education informatization and career prospects.
Viacheslav Laptiev, director of the SoftServe Talent Development Center in Kharkiv, spoke with second- and third-year students, as well as masters of the Institute of Information Technology and Robotics. Interactive communication, company presentation and discussion ended with a quiz and raffle of gifts from the company for the most active participants of the meeting.
In July, SoftServe announced the selection of educators for the Educational Grants project. It will soon be announced who will receive $ 2,000 to develop or update courses in applied mathematics, software engineering, computer science, information systems, computer engineering, cyber security, and linguistics.
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