Every developer on Honeypot is prescreened before being accepted into a batch. This is beneficial for both sides: for devs, passing the challenge grants access to a platform with high quality companies and job offers, and for companies, pre-screening simplifies their work. Here’s how it all works…

Relocating to another country is scary and complicated. Amongst all those cultural clashes, one of the biggest comforts is help and advice from fellow countrymen. As a Russian-speaker myself and a (fairly) recent arrival in Berlin, this post is designed as a guide to the Russian-speaking IT-community in the German capital.

Thinking about moving to Berlin, but confused about all the paperwork. Follow our infographic for a smooth transition to the German capital.

The Blue Card is Europe’s visa for highly-skilled “third-country nationals.” Third-country nationals sounds like something from a spy novel to us, but it’s common parlance among legislative types and is used to describe non-EU nationals who are applying for visas.

My girlfriend and I recently moved to Berlin. Given my German citizenship and extensive stay in the U.S., I have had my fair share of experiences with immigration services, the countless barriers and hurdles, the ever “friendly” and “welcoming” government employees and, of course the obscene application and processing fees that would be far more usefully put towards rent, food, or even a brief get-away.

Salary is one of the biggest taboo topics in work environments. Developers, like other employees, want to know whether they’re getting paid well enough, how they rank compared to their peers, and whether they could be getting more somewhere else. Yet, people have a hard time asking for a raise – in fact, “how to ask for a raise” is one of the highest ranking “how to” questions on Google.

You have heard you are being entered into a batch. But you’re a bit confused about what it is, how it works and why Honeypot uses it to organize your job hunt. In this post, we chat to Fabio, one of Honeypot’s hardworking Talent Reps to figure it all out.