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I’m Sven, and I’m the first Developer Advocate here at Manfred. To be fair: Manfred has always been doing developer advocacy, with David being THE brand ambassador and creating a lot of noise in the community. Actually, everyone at Manfred is an advocate for developers, and that’s also a big reason why I joined. What […]

On January 13th, StackOverflow CEO announced that the company would discontinue Developer Stories, the online CV format used by the popular technical Q&A site. As of March 31, MILLIONS of developers would lose their professional data, created and updated over more than 7 years. Thus, the solution proposed by StackOverflow –exporting the Developer Story as […]

"Your data is yours" is the claim of many professional social networks. We have a different concept of what "yours" should mean. If your data are yours, you should have the chance to take them with you whenever you want. But exporting your data is USELESS if you do it in an uneditable format (like […]

Disclaimer: on 10 December 2021, the Spanish Government announced a draft bill on Start-ups. The project aims to reduce the tax on Stock Options and, de facto, make Phantom Shares a thing of the past. It’s expected to be passed in June/July 2022 and, from that point, start-ups may offer Stock Options to their employees […]

My dad just worked for 2 companies in his career, almost doing the same job for 50 years. My career was much different: After now 20 years, I already worked for 7 organizations and changed my profession 3 times. I studied electronics, but fast figured out that I don’t have a passion for hardware. I […]

The desire to change your job can have different motivators: You might be unsatisfied with the current work situation, you want to experience another company culture, or you simply want to do something completely different. Figuring out the next career move can be a very hard and emotional process. The new work, the uncertainty, the […]

We’re recruiters. We might seem a bit like Martians, but we’re recruiters at the end of the day. We try to do things differently, of course. Also, we don’t embody the prototype of recruiters that you see in general, we don’t send spam, we’re not dull, and we don’t wear ties (although if a Fredder […]

As you already know, at Manfred we make a mad dash to post releases every Friday. Buuuuut this week, between #Tarugo21 and the little job that’s leading us to nickel-plated onboarding of our Manfredites, allow us to share something else that we hope you’ll find useful. A while ago, David launched a debate on how […]

How would we behave if a Manfredite who asked us for help in finding a new job ended up working for one of our clients? Or if one day that same client or any other company bought Manfred, how would we protect their privacy? Or how would we act if a candidate was already involved […]

After investing 3 months learning all about the tech recruiting business we reached a conclusion: it’s broken and we want to try to fix it. We're starting by providing a Talent Agency Service for both candidates and companies.