Another 100 participants of School 21 completed their training and became qualified IT professionals, Sber press service reported. During the school’s lifetime, 500 people graduated and more than 2,100 people are already working in the country’s largest IT companies and start-ups.
It is stated that the most popular workspaces for this release are Backend (C#, Java/Kotlin, Python, Go), DevOps and operating system development. For 67 percent of respondents, school was their first programming experience. The average age of graduates ranges from 21 to 30, with 25 percent of graduates being girls.
As emphasized by Natalya Zhuravleva, director of the Education Industry Center of Sberbank, School 21 provides an opportunity to acquire in-demand knowledge and quickly enter the IT profession. According to him, the project methodology makes it possible to train highly qualified specialists for the digital economy of the country.
“From today, we can say that trainees and graduates progress faster in their careers and perform tasks more efficiently. The demand for IT specialists in our country is very high, and School 21 aims to solve exactly this problem – the graduates of the school help large companies in various sectors develop innovative products for digital transformation and accelerated development of our country.
At the start of the holiday, the school team congratulated the graduates on their graduation and talked about the innovations that will appear on the educational platform of School 21. For example, assignment texts from the most popular fields will always be in the public domain for the alumni community.
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In his congratulations, the director of “School 21” Alexander Fedyakov emphasized that the doors of the school are always open to everyone. Here, every participant will surely find support and inspiration on their way to achieve their professional goals in the IT world.
The duration of study at School 21 is determined independently by each participant. The Peer-to-Peer methodology allows you to complete the program at your own comfortable pace. On average, after one and a half years of training, participants can apply for the position of entry-level developer (Junior), and after three years – to the position of intermediate developer (Intermediate).