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March 12, 2021

How to have efficient 1-to-1 meetings with your team lead?

We’ve previously shared the secrets to 1:1 meetings from a managerial point of view and it’s hight time we share some tips for the other important side of the process – the team member. Simply said, these meetings’ purpose is to discuss tasks, goals, processes improvements and career growth opportunities in order to achieve better performance, higher engagement and work satisfaction. To do so, both parties should be equally involved in the process and make some efforts. Here are our tips for you about how to have an efficient 1:1 with your manager: February 17, 2021

Top 3 considerations when choosing a service provider for a Dedicated team or BOT model

The BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer) and Dedicated team models are an efficient way for a strategic expansion of a company’s development capacity. Of course, the process of building a team in another location requires some planning and careful research in order for this remote operation to be successful. This process usually starts with shortlisting a few destinations for your future team. February 16, 2021

Working in the Funding Circle team: curiosity, collaboration & teamwork

On February 11th, the world celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in Science! This special day, established in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly, honors the incredible contributions of women and girls in science and technology. It's a chance for women in organisations and companies around the globe to come together, share their experiences and inspire future generations. February 12, 2021

Celebrating Ruby’s B-day with our incredible Rubyists from the Funding Circle team

Celebrating Ruby's 24th birthday with insights from Ruby masters at Pwrteams and their passion for teaching at Rails Girls Sofia. February 12, 2021

“Programming is what will deliver the future from the SCI-FI movies”

To honour International Programmer’s Day, we had a very insightful talk with our colleague Stiliyan Kanchev from team News UK. He is a Senior Backend Engineer and very passionate about his work. Scroll down to find out what we’ve talked about and may your code rock! February 11, 2021

Mission Possible: Hiring PMs in Bulgaria

In recent years, Project Management profession has gained popularity not only in Bulgaria, but also globally. Surprisingly or not, locally, there's a wide range of perspectives on what it means to be a project manager. February 11, 2021

International Girls in ICT Day: Insights from Gergana Dobrikova, Team Lead

Happy International Girls in ICT Day! Today we celebrate the incredible achievements of women in the tech sector and encourage the young girls to pursue a career in this exciting field. To mark this special occasion, we invited Gergana Dobrikova, Team Lead at News UK’s team at Pwrteams, to join us with a fascinating interview. We can say a lot about her: she's an innovator in the tech world and an inspiration to women who want to build successful careers. February 11, 2021

Tool for Vulnerability Checks in Golang

November 10 marks the 13th anniversary of the first release of Golang. To celebrate the occasion, we invited our colleague Rostislav Bagrov, Senior Machine Learning Engineer in the News UK Tech team at Pwrteams, to share his observations on one of the newest tools introduced in the language – “govulncheck”. Check out what he shared:  January 16, 2021

Pwrteams accelerates the strategic expansion of News UK

Pwrteams accelerates the strategic expansion plans to Sofia of News UK, the group behind some of the most powerful media brands in the English-speaking world, such as The Times, The Sun and The Sunday Times.