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IIT Delhi graduate Jatin Yadav wins the 10th edition of Code Gladiators 2023 ● Over 3.15 Lakh coders and tech-enthusiasts participated in this 10th edition of the Guinness World Record holding coding competition ● Jatin Yadav, an IIT Delhi graduate was declared the winner of the fierce coding competition. This is the second year in a row that an IITian has claimed the title ● After 3 years of going virtual, the competition was held in a hybrid mode with the grand finale being conducted on the ground in Bengaluru, India ● Participants from more than 80 countries fought tooth and nail to claim the most coveted title and prizes worth INR 50 Lakh. New Delhi, August 2, 2023: TechGig...

Thirty-four year old Prachi Mittal from Team Nettwork beat 8,500 ideators to win the UNFPA India ‘Hackathon: Crack the Code to Prevent and Address Gender Based Violence (GBV)’.  An automotive engineer by profession, she developed an inclusiveness rating tool for assessing access for marginalized communities, including persons with disabilities. The tool has immense potential to scale and can be adopted by a range of stakeholders to map inclusive and accessible right-based services, including services to respond to GBV. Other winners included Team Stemlabs Nigeria, who developed a low-tech tool for reporting and managing GBV cases and linking survivors to appropriate services ; and Aindriya Barua from Team Aari who developed a bot to detect hate speech online.    Gender-based violence is...

– Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology and Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, presided over the 8th edition of TechGig Geek Goddess and invoked the ethos of Digital India and the role of technology in the country’s progress – TechGig Geek Goddess is India’s biggest coding competition for women programmers – Overall, five winners were awarded prizes worth Rs 10 Lakh and merit certificates National, Nov 26, 2022: Who would have known Hathras a while ago? Today, this sleepy city from west Uttar Pradesh, is the proud home of India’s top woman coder. Yes, Hathras-based, IIIT-Una student Muskan Agrawal beat 69Thousand women coders to claim the title of ‘Top woman coder’...

National, October 3, 2022: About 80% Indian women technologists spent their COVID-19 lockdown time in upskilling, found a new recent survey by TechGig – the county’s largest technology community. TechGig’s survey with 1,283 women techies was conducted to understand the skilling trends in this workgroup. Among those who upskilled, most learned Cloud skills (43%), followed by Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (35%), IoT (12%) and other technologies such as Robotics (10%). These stats outline a healthy trend that Indian women techies are keen on learning new-age technologies to remain relevant in workplaces. Technology is an evolving domain that has witnessed the most transformations in the last decade; and thus the concentrated efforts of tech workplaces, and industry at large, to promote upskilling...

National, Sep 8, 2022: Gender-based violence (GBV) is one of the most prevalent human rights violations in the world. It knows no social, economic or national boundaries. Worldwide, an estimated 1 in 3 have women experienced physical or sexual abuse in her lifetime 1 . The most recent data from National Family Health Survey (NHFS-5) also reported that around 29.3% married Indian women between the ages of 18-49 years have faced domestic violence/or sexual violence. The risk of and vulnerability to GBV increases on account of intersections of gender with sexual orientation, disability, caste, age. Similarly, GBV risks are known to increase during humanitarian crises such as public health emergencies, natural calamities and conflicts. Today, with the increased use and reliance on technology and digital spaces, we...

Aug 10, 2022, New Delhi: It’s a narrative straight out of a Bollywood film script where two ex-champions fight it out for the winner’s crown and the Indian super coder edged out the world grandmaster to bring home the top coding title. The battle in question here was the finale of the world’s biggest coding competition – Code Gladiators 2022. IIT-Delhi’s Kalash Gupta (1st runner-up of Code Gladiators 2021) fought tooth and nail against the title’s defending champion Yury Pisarchyk and 3.3 Lakh other participants and won the title. With this, the UK-based ex-champion Yury occupied the 1st runner-up spot. Simply put, the winner and 1st runner-up of the 2021 edition exchanged their positions at the winner’s podium this year!...

Cities with highest M-o-M talent demand growth in Jun’22: Jaipur (23%), Hyderabad/Secunderabad (15%) and Ahmedabad (2%) Pune slipped from its #1 spot for talent demand in May’22, saw the steepest fall of 19% in Jun’22 Mumbai only metro city to note 1% M-o-M increase in talent demand in study period, rest all metros saw subdued demand Sectors with highest M-o-M talent demand growth in Jun’22: Projects/ Infrastructure (11%), Petrochemicals/ Oil and Gas (7%) and Automobiles (4%) Job profiles with highest M-o-M talent demand growth in Jun’22: Doctors/ Medical Professionals (13%), Customer Services/ Tele Calling (11%) and Quality/Process Control (8%) National, Jul 9, 2022: With Work From Office (WFO) becoming a mandate at most workplaces, Tier II cities that are aflush...

National, June 21, 2022: India’s IT/Telecom sector is bustling with hiring activities, with talent demand noting a growth of over 30% in M-o-M and Y-o-Y analysis in May’22. This sector recorded a successive single-digit M-o-M increment in talent demand since Jan’22 but the May’22 gain surpassed all the earlier statistics, reported RecruiteX. TimesJobs RecruiteX is a monthly recruitment index that records the demand and supply of talent at India Inc. RecruiteX noted an overall growth of 42 basis points from Apr’22 to May’22, corresponding to over 30% uptick in talent demand. This growth was led chiefly by the IT/Telecom (over 30%), Manufacturing & Engineering (14%), BFSI (14%), Automobiles/Auto Components (11%) and Retail (9%) sectors. “The IT/Telecom sector is witnessing a...

National, June 10, 2022:  About 55% India Inc. recruiters struggle to find skilled developers from the LGBTQ+ work group and the attrition rate among this group is higher when compared to their male and female counterparts.  Both these statistics indicate that the basic indices have moved when it comes to the career progression of queer developers at Indian tech workplaces. India’s biggest community of 4.2 million software developers – TechGig – studied the hiring and employee engagement patterns for LGBTQ+ developers at tech companies. TechGig surveyed 568 tech recruiters from India Inc. firms for the ‘Gender Diversity Survey 2022’. Among the respondents, most (69%) were working in the IT/Telecom sector. Here are the key findings of this survey: Highest attrition...

– Biggest global coding hunt engaging over 15 Lakh developers in the earlier eight editions – Code Gladiators opened its ninth edition this year with one codeathon and four theme hackathons – 2022 hackathons are based on niche technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Virtual Assistants and Azure Cloud service – Highest choice of 56 programming languages for developers to code; latest ones as Java 11, Java 17, and TypeScript included – Partners include global technology giants Oracle, Paylogic, NTT DATA, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Kore.ai, Microsoft Azure, Persistent, Colruyt Group, RenewBuy, Providence, Publicis Sapient and Allstate India National, April 20, 2022: ‘Who are the world’s top developers?’- The fate of the world’s trillion-dollar companies hangs on the answer to...

National, March 15, 2022: The average annual appraisal for developers in the year 2022 will be in 8-10% range with the front-end developers taking home the highest increment, found a recent TechGig survey. TechGig – India’s largest developer community of 4.2 million technologists – surveyed 1,174 Indian tech recruiters to understand their preferences amid the ongoing annual appraisals. Top findings of the TechGig Developers’ Appraisals Survey 2022: Appraisal range: Most firms will offer an average appraisal between 8-10% Tech specialisations: Front-end developers (26% votes) will get the best appraisals Programming language: Python developers (27% votes) will fetch the best appraisals New-age skills: Machine Learning developers (37% votes) will get the best appraisals Appraisal criterion: Team work (26% votes), followed by...

National, March 9, 2022: ‘Technology is an enabler – and the most efficient tool to bring gender parity at workplaces. Women professionals – especially developers – must use it extensively to grow in their career,’ concluded a unanimous panel of women tech leaders at a virtual panel discussion hosted by TechGig. The panel discussion on #BreaktheBias: What women in tech want’ included women leaders from leading technology companies NetApp India, TCS, Thoughtworks, ServiceNow and Actu-Real Inc. The panel deliberated on how women technologists bring a different – and empathetic – viewpoint to the boardroom and having more women in the workforce is not a choice but a business imperative. At the discussion, Madhurima Agarwal, Director- Engineering Programs, NetApp India emphasised...

National, Feb 25, 2022: The Year 2022 started on an optimistic note with India Inc. noting 12% Y-o-Y and 6 % M-o-M growth in talent demand in Jan’22. This impressive growth came at a time when the Omicron COVID-19 variant caused restrictions and lockdowns, but economic recovery was in full swing accompanied by talent demand growth in all high volume industrial sectors. Consumer-centric sectors led the talent demand growth with Retail noting the highest growth of 22% M-o-M and over 30% Y-o-Y in talent demand analysis in Jan’22. The Consumer Durables/FMCG displayed another strong growth story with 18% M-o-M and over 30% Y-o-Y increment in the talent demand analysis. Here’s a sector-wise study of talent demand (arranged in order of...

TechGig honours best tech workplaces for women India’s biggest coding competition for women – TechGig Geek Goddess 2021 – declared the winners of its inaugural Diversity and HR Awards as: >> Tech Woman Leader Varundeep Kaur, Chief Information Officer, Spice Money >> Diversity Advocate Star Archana V, Business Partner – Communications & Engagement, Dunnhumby India >> Best HR Practises for Women Dunnhumby India The winners of the maiden edition of Geek Goddess Diversity and HR Awards were announced in Dec’21 with an aim to highlight the top technology leaders and companies doing outstanding work to promote gender diversity in three categories. Geek Goddess celebrated its sixth edition in 2021 with record breaking 73,000 registrations from women coders. IIT BHU’s student...

New Delhi, Dec 16, 2021: A sustained improvement in consumer sentiment, and the complete opening of markets and office spaces pushed the Consumer Durables/FMCG sector to post maximum talent demand of 18% in the Y-o-Y study of talent demand in Nov’21. This is akin to the pre-COVID-19 talent demand trends when the Consumer Durables/FMCG sector dominated the talent demand growth chart in the festive months. The IT/Telecom (12%), Petrochemicals (8%), Projects/Infrastructure (5%) and Retail (5%) sectors followed FMCG at the subsequent positions on the Y-o-Y talent demand chart in Nov’21, noted TimesJobs RecruiteX. TimesJobs RecruiteX is a monthly recruitment index that records the demand and supply of talent at India Inc. Commenting on the findings of RecruiteX Nov’21 edition, Sanjay...