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16 facts from 2 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
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Andela connects global technologists with Fortune 500 companies to help them build engineering teams for the AI era, according to the host.
“Andela connects global technologists with Fortune 500 companies to help them build high-performing engineering teams for the AI era.”
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Andela scraped about 2 million jobs and analysed nearly 70,000 tech postings to map them to skill taxonomies.
“we scraped like 2 million jobs and analyzed down like almost 70,000 tech postings”
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Andela keeps a large network of technologists and breaks all of them down by skills.
“Andela has like a big network of individuals. We break everything down by skills.”
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Cory Hymel said most Andela skills assessments take about 30 to 40 minutes.
“Most of them we've done in like 30 or 40 minutes”
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Cory Hymel said Andela customers reassess skills quarterly, twice a year or annually.
“we see people do it quarterly, we see people do it twice a year, uh, we see people, some people just do it annually.”
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Andela built assessments for a large bank that wanted engineers with experience in mortgage-backed securities.
“we built assessments and for a big bank that wanted specifically engineers that had experience with mortgage-backed securities.”
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Andela connects global technologists with Fortune 500 companies to help them build engineering teams.
“Andela connects global technologists with Fortune 500 companies to help them build high performing engineering teams for the AI era.”
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Carrol Chang says Andela has specialized in software engineering for more than a decade.
“software engineering is the profession and the job that Andela has specialized in for our entire decade plus history.”
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Andela's hiring process gives candidates a prompt and data and a week to prepare a final presentation, which is treated as a live conversation.
“We give them a prompt, we give them some data, and then we ask them to take a week and to come back and deliver a presentation.”
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Carrol Chang says recent candidate presentations of five or ten pages have been hard to read because so much was obviously AI-written.
“those five or ten pages are incredibly hard to read because so much of it is so obviously written by AI”
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Andela invested heavily in technical assessment over several years because it runs a large global network of engineers.
“we invested a lot over the last several years into assessment because we run this very large global talent network of engineers.”
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Andela built an assessment system that assumes and encourages candidates to use AI.
“So we actually built a system in which we assume and encourage that people are gonna use AI, because that's actually how the job is changing anyway.”
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Carrol Chang says Andela can detect answers that merely reproduce a coding agent's output and gives them no credit.
“we can spot that, and they'll effectively be scored a zero. They'll get no credit for that answer.”
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Carrol Chang says Andela was founded as a learning-focused company.
“Andela is a company that was founded as a learning focused company.”
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Andela follows the 70-20-10 learning model, under which about 70% of learning comes from doing the work.
“We believe in the seventy, twenty, ten learning model, which says that 70%, meaning the vast majority of one's learning comes from actually doing the work.”
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Carrol Chang relays that an Andela customer had her best quarterly business review because AI meant engineering was no longer the bottleneck.
“I had my best QBR ever, or I had my best QBR of my last year just recently. Because now engineering is no longer the bottleneck, and AI is what's enabling this.”
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