We are pleased to announce opening of our first office in Novosibirsk city. Located in downtown, the new office is able to accommodate about 30 Sibersers who live in the city. Close connections to main bus, tram, trolley and subway lines make it possible to avoid traffic jams.... read more →
Today we received presents from our partner – Eye-Fi. They’ve sent Canon cameras and Eye-Fi cards to members of their team. Thanks a lot – they must be one of the first Eye-Fi cards in Russia.... read more →
Yesterday we all celebrated New Year and although my head still feels sick, I must tell you about one of our best parties ever. Since it’s too boring to just drink to the new year, our idea was to launch a spaceship to 2008 because in the space it was already 2008. Alexey Shpak, Director of Development, counted down to zero and we took off. Space rock-n-roll (kudos to Artem Grinevich and Evgeniy Odnoval), fireworks and final crashing of CRT monitors were the highlights of that night!... read more →
Some time ago I ran across such or similar articles. In general, their idea is that we don’t need template engines in PHP since PHP is template-driven by itself (obviously, in fact, that’s true not only about PHP because there exist JSP, PSP etc. in other technologies). And of course, in all articles of this sort they throw mud at Smarty, the most popular template engine... read more →
Last Saturday our Sales Manager Artem Grinevich rocked a new place with his band The Third Step.... read more →
Last weekend (24-25 November) we didn’t celebrate Thanksgiving: we don’t have it in Russia. Instead, we demonstrated our skills in the Counter Strike Tournament held in Novosibirsk for the second time. Our rivals were about a dozen Novosibirsk IT companies. Sibers demonstrated a very high result taking the II place in the most difficult group, Masters, yielding the championship only to one company, Dixis... read more →
November 19, 2007 – Novosibirsk, Russia, – Sibers Group LTD, a Russia-based software outsourcing company, announces that its development center in Novosibirsk has been chosen by Eye-Fi, Inc. to develop the Eye-Fi Service, the first photo sharing service based on Wi-Fi technology. The service works with the Eye-Fi Card, a standard-sized SD memory card that is designed to universalize and simplify the process of uploading pictures from users’ digital cameras to the PC or Internet. With just an active Wi-Fi access point and no wires, the Eye-Fi card automatically transfers all photos on the card to one of many popular photo sharing and printing services, blogs and social networking sites. First beta-testers and customers have already confirmed that this new gadget will certainly overthrow the whole concept of digital freedom and mobility... read more →
Our October results show stable and steady rise in production, which is thanks to all the staff contribution. The month turned out loaded, and we grew both extensively and intensively — Sibers welcomed its 100th employee and has demonstrated good performance. S&M department brought 16 new projects; HR department processed 83 resumes and conducted 6 qualifying evaluations; our social projects are being implemented and some new ones are under development; infrastructure is constantly improving. The rise is continuous and systematic, which is a factor of stability... read more →
We joined the 53 million Facebook audience. The new HireRussians Facebook page will allow us to connect to many professionals and executives that make up 34% of Facebook users, according to blog.hubspot.com. This article also claims that although Facebook started as a student-oriented network connecting US campuses, it is now growing out of it... read more →
I recently posted a question to LinkedIn Answers trying to figure out what makes people outsource to Russia if there exist cheaper options in India and Pakistan. I got 27 answers, all different, and majority was quite detailed. I selected 4 most popular answers why outsourcing to Russia is worth it... read more →