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Every year in August, two apprentices start their software development training at our Cologne office. Martin Vollmar, Senior Software Engineer at Avenga Germany, accompanies our new apprentices Cihan and Doğuş as a mentor throughout their first year of training. Here, Martin describes the first week with them.

Have you ever heard of Avenga Ralley before? This article gives you all the information you need in order to understand why when and how we started this interesting series.

The IT industry knows no borders. Avenga has professionals who’ve moved to Poland from abroad. Why did they decide to come here to live and work? What are the main differences in working styles between. Now you can find out. Meet Celso Pereira from Porto, Portugal, now living in Poznań. Celso has been working with us since 2015 as Test Lead & Senior Testing Specialist

I’ve been working at Avenga for more than 8 years. Started as a junior developer with no experience, I evolved into a senior engineer. So, I definitely  had a chance to improve myself. I would like to share some tips from my report on UX design and techniques that would be useful to FE developers in their daily work!

Working remotely now, when business isn’t as usual, is more important than ever before. Until recently a remote work model was favored only in some lines of work, but today companies are trying to adapt their operations to a fast-changing world. So, amid the pandemic in 2020, we found ourselves moving our offices to our homes and embracing remote work options together along with remote hiring.

At the CGN WebPerf Meetup #29, our colleagues Angelina and Ingo explained how to make website performance better without having to change the code. Our SEO Manager Elisabeth summarized the Meetup for us.

Our Berlin Senior Project Manager, Manuela, traveled all the way from Berlin to Cologne to attend the Digitale Leute Conference at the event location Palladium, and describes the impressions and inspirations she took away with her from this exciting event.

If you want to attend a Lean Coffee, you have to get up early. And those who get up early are rewarded with croissants and coffee. Our colleague Elisabeth set her alarm clock, received her reward – and, as a token of gratitude wrote us a summary of Lean Coffee Cologne on November 15, 2019.

Looking back at one year DevOps am Dom! For the first anniversary, Sophie, the organizer of the Meetups from day one, interviewed Shorty, who has been the second part of the organizer duo for the last few months.