Interviews

Anastasia Kazakova, our Product Marketing Manager for C++ tools, talks with Hadi Hariri, Team Lead in Developer Advocacy at JetBrains, about teaching people, helping, and inspiring them. Hadi Hariri, team lead in Developer Advocacy at JetBrains Being a developer advocate, are you closer to the users or to the product teams you are working with? I think we're kind of in the middle, which I

“A good day is when there’s some tangible result at the end when you’ve completed a task or a part of it”: An interview with Olga Berdnikova, a UI/UX designer at JetBrains. One rule for a good interview is: ask the questions you're interested in. Anna Gasparyan, the Team Lead for the IntelliJ IDEA Technical Writing team, asked Olga Berdnikova about everything she wanted to know about UX design and

In the eight years Natalia Chisler has been with JetBrains, the number of staff has exploded from 120 to over 800 working across 6 distributed offices. JetBrains software is used by millions of developers worldwide, and many of them dream of joining a JetBrains team to help improve the professional tools for themselves and their peers. So what does it take to become a part of JetBrains? Do you eve

Anastasia Kazakova, our Product Marketing Manager for C++ tools, talks with Sergey Coox about controlled chaos, internal competition, and keeping 90 colleagues happy at work. Q: Hi Sergey! You lead the .NET Department at JetBrains. How big is your department and what products does it work on? According to the latest ‘census,’ we’re 90-strong. We work on ReSharper – our Visual Studio extensio

Next post of this series >> When learning something new, you are never alone. Look around and you find a friend, a colleague who is learning as well. We invite you to share one learning journey – the journey to becoming a ‘half decent programmer’ from David Watson, Marketing Copywriter at JetBrains. David is going to self-learn how to program in four months and will write about his progre

Here’s what Serge Baranov, JetBrains’ legendary tech support engineer, had to say to on the matter. Hi Serge! Have you heard of Jony Ive, Apple’s chief design officer a.k.a “the man from the white room”? Every Apple press conference (WWDC) has a video with him, showing an empty all-white room. Some say Jony Ive is not a human but only an app. There’s a similar myth about you at JetBrains: p