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Last week we launched a brand new release of our platform under the pretty bold promise of 'The New Manfred'. In this post, we wanted to tell you all about what was developed during the 3 months prior to the launch, which has propelled us to this very exciting new stage: Manfred no longer runs […]

Two weeks ago we released the Manfred Developer Career Report, a Report on the current state of the tech sector that would advocate transparency and information symmetry in the industry. We wanted to take full advantage of our wide database to produce this much-needed source of information. The Report compares the skills, preferences and projections […]

There might be a general thinking that a Software Architect only need technical skills, when the reality is that soft skills can be even more important. Soft skills have become essential for companies when hiring a new technical profile. Like everything else, the set of skills needed depends on the role to which it is […]

Remote work has gone from being an option to a trend. Every year, more and more companies are choosing the fully-remote modality for their workers, and every year more and more workers deny to work in other way but remotely -for instance, in this article Forbes relates how Facebook workers denied a big perk for […]

Every day, more and more Manfredites are storing their professional information in our platform for sharing and growing their career. This, besides being great news, gives us a volume of information that, transformed into conclusions, will allow us to draw useful insights… or curious ones. Not long ago, we started working hand in hand with […]

Tired of not knowing where your CV has ended? Or if your job application has been opened or not? At Manfred, we’re completely changing how job applications are dealt with in selection processes. Are you still sending a PDF including your CV into a black hole? Now, you can now follow any interest shown in […]

Txema León shares his own experience using our open CV format (MAC) and GitHub sync for his About-Me page at Manfred's page.

When talking about developer career paths the discussion moves quickly to popular technologies and how to become a React, Typescript, or Python developer. Often the conversation is about whether to move into a management role or staying on the individual contributor track. There are much more alternative developer career paths than you think. Moving into […]

tl;dr marketgoo's engineering team recently had a general salary increase to keep pace with the market Read on to discover why they started this process and how they did it, and which role has Manfred played along the way. Background We have known the marketgoo team for years. Not only because we are contemporary startups […]

We have expressed time after time that our approach to product delivery is all about splitting the big tasks into smaller features and ship value continuously. Likewise, we are always fighting against the feeling that the code that is just about to be deployed must be improved a bit more before reaching our community. I'm […]