Anna Kutarba is a QA Engineer for JetBrains RubyMine with a PhD in Physical and Mathematical Sciences. Learn about Anna's QA karma, her relationship with bugs, and the luck and determination that help her stay on track in this interview with Ekaterina Ivanova, a JetBrains Technical Writer and Copywriter.

Roman Prokashev, the Team Lead of Digital Marketing, shared his vision of internet marketing at JetBrains with Artem Sarkisov, a PMM for IntelliJ IDEA

Tatiana Vasilyeva, Product Manager for JetBrains Educational Products, shares her story with Maria Lebedeva, QA Engineer in the MPS project, about finding inspiration and fulfillment in her work. Tatiana Vasilyeva, Product Manager for JetBrains Educational Products Table of Contents: Journey to Product Management RubyMine A Good Release Personal Efficiency Educational Products and Educational Content Project-Based Learning Journey to Product Management Maria Lebedeva: I want to begin with the fact that you and me, we both followed the same path: we went to the Physics and

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 believe is an important place to be for a developer advocate. We are the bridge between the product teams and users. Okay, then being in the middle, how do you advocate developers' needs when thou

“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 the specifics of the job. Olga Berdnikova, UI/UX designer at JetBrains First of all, let’s sort out the terminology. I’m talking about the roles of a UX architect and a UI designer. As I see

Kotlin Developer Advocate Eugene Petrenko talked with Maria Antropova, Head of the JetBrains Marketing Research department, about her work, her team, their current tasks, and future plans. Your team has been around for quite a while. How did you start out and what kinds of research do you do? It was back in 2012, when I came to the ReSharper team as an analyst. As more analysts joined me over time, we formed a team as part of the Marketing department. We started with product surveys, market research, and sales analysis—small-scale tasks that addressed our colleagues' ad hoc requests

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 even stand a chance if you're not a Senior Developer? Read our interview with Natalia for answers to these and other questions. Photo by Alexander Nefedov Today, all new hires go through the HR

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 extension for .NET, the second oldest JetBrains tool after IntelliJ IDEA; Rider – an up-and-coming cross-platform .NET IDE; a family of profilers including dotTrace and dotMemory; dotCover for analyzing code

Anna is a technical writers' team lead at JetBrains. In this interview, she let me look under the hood of our technical writing. Online documentation is one of the pillars of our connection with developers, and Anna is dedicated to making it even better and more user-friendly. Q: Anna, how long have you been working for JetBrains? What background do technical writers normally have? I’ve been with JetBrains for three and a half years. Though any company that produces software products has technical writers in their staff, in Russia you still cannot get a degree as a technical writer.

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 progress, sharing some tips and highlights. Let him tell you about this project! David, could you please tell us a bit about yourself and the journey you’re ready to start? Hi, so I am pretty new here

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: people believe you’re not a real person but some advanced futuristic AI! I guess it’s because you work from home, invisible to your colleagues, and you respond to user requests almost 24/7, at lightnin

Background: Having joined JetBrains in 2012 as a Product Marketing Manager (PMM) for PhpStorm, Mikhail (Misha) Vink is now focused on refining and optimizing our marketing processes. Graduated from the Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University (LETI) majoring in Computer Security. Former owner of a web development studio. (I’m interviewing Misha on Skype as I’m based in St. Petersburg, Russia, while he’s in Munich, Germany.) Hi Misha! Let’s start with the times before you joined JetBrains. Most of our colleagues have an interesting story of how they ended up here. Can you share yo