EPAM Educational Program and IT services from East Europe

IAOP EE Week 2013

2013 © EPAM Systems

In Pursuit of Excellence in Education

Challenges of IT education in EE

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EPAM Educational Program Overview

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Results and Achievements

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Future steps

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Agenda

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Challenges of IT Education in East Europe 1

With all well-known benefits IT education has in East Europe there

are few main challenges which create obstacles for growing IT

services here some of them are:

Low ratio of IT graduates who join IT companies after universities. According different researches this is

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EPAM Educational Program Overview 2

As a separated corporate process Educational Program was started in the middle of 2006. The objective is to provide production units with Junior/Specialists (D1/D2 level). Process is divided into two streams:

• External (epam-university joint laboratories)

• Internal (pre-production pool)

Newcomers Flow Diagram

EPAM Production

EPAM Labs (Internal) University Trainings

(External)

Talent acquisition

Education Program

IT Specialists IT Graduates, including 4th, 5th year students

Typical Optional

Stages of the process

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Pre

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Selection Practice results, tests, technical interviews

4-6 months Cyclic training, mock projects,

supervisory control

Pre

-hir

ing

Selection HR interviews, tests P

rod

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ion

Selection

Up to 2 months Participation in project activities Students’ production projects

Tests, exams, Lab Manager’s assessment

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New employees can start at any stage according to their knowledge and experience Full process cycle takes from 8 to 12 months

Up to 3 months Quarterly trainings Extracurricular classes

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Step 1. External process

Step 1

Outside of EPAM

Step 2

Inside

Step 3

Inside

Goal: Short-listing skilled students. Training up to qualification

standards.

Form: Quarterly training in joint university laboratories.

Based on the collaboration with Universities

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Step 2. Internal process. Pre-production

Step 1 Outside of EPAM

Step 2 Inside

Step 3 Inside

Goal: teaching employees of EPAM up to necessary professional level for work in production units

Form:

- Part-time employment - Pre-production laboratories of EPAM Systems

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Results and Achievements 3

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EPAM has partnered with 10 universities in 4 universities in Ukraine opened several joint laboratories .

• 6+ fully equipped classrooms with 120+ workplaces in total •150+ trainees per year •15+ dedicated trainers

NULP

NTUU KPI

KNU KhNURE

Partnership with Universities in Ukraine

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Partnership with Universities in Belarus

The goal is achieved together with the leading local IT universities; EPAM has partnered with 10 universities in Belarus and opened joint laboratories to

conduct professional trainings for students and to share its practical software development experience with the local IT education institutions.

• 20+ fully equipped classrooms with 300+ workplaces in total

• 600+ trainees per year • 30+ dedicated trainers

The cooperation also entails: • joint publications and

participation in conferences;

• organization and support of programming contests.

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EPAM’s Educational Seminars

for University Teaching Staff

Jun

2007 Jan

2008 Jun

2009 Jun

2011 Jun2012

Java Java Java .Net Java .Net Java .NET SFT Mng Minsk 10 10 7 3 6 5 3 3

Vitebsk 2 2 3 3 1 2 1

Polotsk 1

Gomel 3 3 3 3 4 1 2 1

Grodno 2 2 2 3 3 1 1 1

Mogilev 3 2 2 2 2 1 1

Brest 3 2 2 1 1

Kiev 2 3 1

Kharkov 2

Karaganda 2 2

Saratov 2

Total: 20 17 17 13 21 12 16 5 4 7

EPAM Edu Global Dynamics

2010 2011 2012

University Trainees 692 1044 1077

Pre-Production Employees

358 626 743

Moved to Production 438 564 632

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2010 2011 2012

University Trainees

Pre-Production Trainees

Production

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Future Steps 4

Unification and Modularity: Improving Learning Process

Designing and preparing of the curricula materials for the new training modules (lectures, praxis, coursewares, tests) 125 modules developed

Key Actors: Trainers, Production People, Lab Managers

Flexible programs, ability to build PDP (Personal Development Plans)

Education Plan for Custom/Specific Project

SFT

Java Automation

Common Tech

Modules Catalogue by Primary Skill

OOP

JVM

jUnit/TestNG

Wrapper

Generic Collections

Patterns

DOM, SAX, JAXB

XML/XDS/WSDL

Frameworks Thoughtful

Testing

Web Services

Custom Program for ABC project

Go on-line

EDU Portal, MOOC and EPAM online courses

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Thank You for Attention

By Yury Antaniuk

Senior Director, EPAM Systems Ukraine