The Kommersant publication reports that Russian IT companies intend to create additional jobs and raise wages for specialized specialists. However, according to experts, large banks are cutting development budgets and laying off staff. IT organizations and recruiting companies are talking about a decline in market hype, employers are optimizing projects, and job seekers are lowering salary expectations.
Kaspersky Lab announced plans to create about a thousand new jobs in the areas of development and research. In April, the company increased salaries by 20%. Solvery mentor Evgeny Kravtsov notes that Yandex and Avito intend to index the salaries of employees.
Yandex this month will complete the calculation of new salaries based on economic indicators. Avito paid additional wages to all its employees in March.
According to the head of the Russian Association for Electronic Communications Sergey Plugotarenko, from February 24 to March 22, 50-70 thousand IT specialists left Russia. In response to this, the Russian government has taken a number of support measures for the IT sector and specialists in particular. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin personally asked not to leave IT personnel.
In early April, the government allocated 21.5 billion rubles. to subsidize the interest rate on loans to IT companies, increase the maximum grants and provide preferential mortgages for employees of organizations in the field of IT. At the end of March, Mishustin signed a decree exempting Russian IT companies from scheduled inspections for three years.
Nikolai Komlev, executive director of the Association for Computer and Information Technologies, says that at first specialists began to leave the country due to fears of conscription and the closure of borders. He adds that some of them have begun to run out of resources, and the cost of renting housing in popular relocation destinations has increased significantly.
A Kommersant source reports that banks are reducing costs for their own IT development and outsourcing. In particular, VTB cut IT costs, other banks acted in a similar way. Reduction is more often subjected to front-end specialists. The expert explains that banks are developing IT-direction at the moment of growth, which will not happen in the near future. The VTB press service denies cutting the budget for development and IT specialists.
Solvery mentor Phillip Delgado says companies have become less likely to hire iOS developers as Apple actively enforces sanctions by removing apps from its digital store. Ekaterina Selezneva, head of IT recruiting company Benchmark, reports on the reduction of projects and the termination of their financing. She adds that a number of companies have stopped hiring new employees.
Yesterday, Forbes announced that some of the employees of the Ozon marketplace were being laid off in order to reduce costs. The company carried out optimization in the period from March to April. The changes will affect 20% of the 45,000 employees.
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