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The most engaging way to grow in IT, prepare for interviews, and find job openings and other opportunities.
Run FAANG-style mock interviews with a peer, timed coding quizzes, a pet-project portfolio and remote job matches.
- Basic plan is freeSuper when you want more
- Telegram is optionaleverything works on the website
- International hiring loopsnot a regional job board
What's inside the platform
A practice gym for engineers targeting product-company interview loops
- FAANG
- Big Tech
- Scale-ups
- Remote-first
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Reviews
A genuinely useful tool! I quickly found a practice partner, we rehearsed typical questions and tough cases together. Prep was efficient and low-stress — and it ended with an offer! Huge thanks to the creators; the bot really helps build skills and confidence before interviews. Highly recommend! 🚀
Thank you 🙏 It really helped with prep and landing a job 🔥
An absolute gem! 🔥 Saved my interview prep. Studying alone is hard; with a partner it feels like a real interview. We drilled algorithms, debated architecture, and fixed each other's mistakes. I felt much calmer walking into the employer meeting. Result: offer received! If you're tired of prepping in a vacuum — try it! 🙌
Great bot! Helped me find a partner for IT interview prep. Studying together was far more effective, and I passed the interview and landed a job. Thank you ☺️
Interesting project! Connecting developers is exactly what we need right now.
A useful trainer for IT interview prep 🔥🤙
Awesome bot — great for finding practice partners. Recommend.
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Blog
Field notes on interview loops, hiring practice, and growing as an engineer.
Do AI coding assistants make teams faster?
55% faster in one lab task, 19% slower in a field trial, more throughput and more incidents in DORA 2025. What the numbers measure and how to test it on your team.
How to write a job post engineers actually read
Engineers decide in the first screen: stack, salary, team, interview steps. A template in that order, a before-and-after rewrite, and the EU pay rules since June 2026.
Kubernetes interview questions 2026
Twenty questions that keep coming up for platform and backend roles, with the follow-up that separates juniors from seniors, plus what changed in 1.33 to 1.35.
Internship interview questions
What a two-round intern loop actually asks: one coding problem with follow-ups, a few questions about your project, and host matching that can take eight weeks.
Behavioral interview for senior engineers: 15 STAR stories
Fifteen story slots a senior loop keeps probing: conflict, a wrong call, an outage, influence without authority. How to fill them from your own work.
Structured technical interviews: less bias, better hires (and AI Act ready)
Same questions, anchored 1–4 scores, notes before the debrief. Validity 0.42 against 0.19 for a chat, and the paper trail the AI Act will ask for in Dec 2027.
AI product manager career path: skills and first job
AI PM is rarely anyone's first product job. Three doors in, the six skills interviewers test, one eval you can build in a weekend, and pay bands for 2026.
System Design at DoorDash: How to Pass an Interview in Real Logistics
DoorDash system design is logistics, not vacuum abstractions: courier dispatch, ratings, promos, and real-time tracking. Round format, rubric, typical prompts, and an IT Career Gym prep plan.
System Design at Amazon: How to Pass the Interview Without Failing on Soft Skills
Amazon system design tests architecture and soft skills: Leadership Principles, Bar Raiser, trade-offs. Round format, rubric, typical prompts, and an IT Career Gym prep plan.
How AI Product Manager Interviews Are Structured
Real AI PM interview questions from OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Anthropic in 2026: Product Sense, RAG, hallucinations, vibe coding, strategy, and behavioral rounds.
How Is AI Changing Interview Processes? Not Much—and Very Much at Once.
A survey of FAANG and startup engineers: what actually changed in questions, cheating detection, and the return to in-person interviews.
How a pair mock interview works: five steps and finding a teammate
A pair mock is five steps: match a partner at your grade, pick a slot, prep questions, run two timed halves with feedback, then keep the pair if it works. Board, call links, and a 60-minute teammate session included.
How Stripe System Design Interviews Work: A Complete Guide
Real Stripe tasks instead of "design Twitter": ledgers, transaction APIs, authorization, rate limiters. Evaluation rubric, top 5 questions, and prep strategy.
More Filters, Same Broken Process: How AI Sourcing Tools Make Hiring Worse
Why the new wave of AI sourcing tools fails to fix hiring—and spins the technical recruiting death spiral faster than before.
Improving App Performance: Strategies for Optimizing Network Requests
How Coinbase cut excess API calls by 64% at peak: over-fetching, polling, GraphQL cache, and guardrails. An adapted engineering case study.
45+ Interview Questions and Answers for AI Engineers (2026 Guide)
A complete AI engineer interview guide: LLM concepts, serving infra, RAG, agents, evaluation, and coding. Real questions from OpenAI, Anthropic, Scale AI.
Stop Making Recruiters Think: Why Your Resume Fails and How to Fix It
Six edits that make your resume scannable in ten seconds: drop clichés, add company context, and show impact instead of duty lists.
The Other Side of the Coin: Why Interviewers Make Mistakes and How to Fix It
Candidates prepare for interviews like an exam, but interviewers often don't. We explore the imbalance, digging skills, and building an interviewing culture.
How to Find Great Non-Traditional Candidates (When You Can't Rely on Brands)
Resume signals that reveal strong engineers without FAANG or elite schools: teaching assistants, focused programs, and how experience is framed.
Stop Memorizing STAR for Behavioral Interviews. Start Picking Better Stories.
At Senior+ level, story choice matters more than answer format. A five-step prep algorithm with before/after examples from Meta and Amazon.
How to Win the Interview When the Interviewer Is Unprepared
Candidates prep like pros; interviewers often do not. How to avoid looking memorized, ask echo questions, go beyond URL Shortener, and still get an offer on a raw problem.
Complete Security Engineer Interview Guide 2026: From Theory to System Design
Security Engineer interview stages: technical round, SALT, STAR and behavioral. Networks, AppSec, cloud questions and how to practice on IT Career Gym.
Who Is an AI Product Manager?
What an AI Product Manager actually does after ChatGPT: company types, day-to-day work, hiring red flags, and real interview questions. How to prep at IT Career Gym.
An ML file assistant: how Dropbox taught algorithms to tidy folders
Dropbox smart move: human-in-the-loop, synthetic labels from already-organized folders, name embeddings, and why offline accuracy is not the same as users accepting suggestions.
The Last Week Before the Interview: A Playbook for Senior Engineers
Seven days to a technical interview: two routes — in shape vs in panic. A 5-day triage, a talking algorithm, a Big-O cheat sheet, and mocks instead of grinding LeetCode.
Why AI Will Not Replace the Recruiter (and What Your Career Has to Do With It)
AI is great at emails and calendars, not at judging people. Why LinkedIn and GitHub lie, why chemistry still decides offers, and how to prep for a live interview at IT Career Gym.
AI Won’t Replace Data Analysts. It Will Create New Ones — and You Can Be One of Them
AI takes data cleaning and boilerplate SQL, not business judgment. Who the Augmented Analyst is, which roles appear in 2026, and the skill checklist to close at IT Career Gym.
How Bitbucket Cloud sped up Git push over HTTPS by 8x
How Atlassian sped up HTTPS Git push in Bitbucket Cloud by 8x: HTTP/2 flow control and Edge proxy settings. A 2 GB import dropped from 2 hours to 15 minutes.
What is MLOps and why is it your ticket into serious AI?
MLOps is skill #1 for an ML career: the model lifecycle, how it differs from DevOps and AIOps, market tools, and an IT Career Gym career track.
How to Write a Resume for a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) Role: A Complete Guide
Write an FDE resume that proves ownership, production code, and customer work. Bullet formula, before/after examples, a one-page template, and prep at IT Career Gym.
Forward Deployed Engineer vs Solutions Architect: Key Differences You Should Know
FDE vs Solutions Architect: who owns production vs the rollout plan. Skills, sales-cycle timing, 2026 pay, and how to prep at IT Career Gym.
Will AI Take Engineers’ Jobs? The Bar Is Rising
AI is not killing software engineering — it is raising the bar. Downleveling, architecture, and how to prep at IT Career Gym.
Microsoft System Design Interview Guide (2026)
How Microsoft system design interviews really work: hiring-team panels, final loop leveling, Azure/Copilot domains, security/compliance, and growth mindset.
Topgrading: The Ultimate Playbook for Hiring A-Players
Bradford Smart's method: A/B/C players, a Scorecard instead of a marketing JD, TORC, and a five-stage funnel. How hiring managers verify the past — and how candidates practice at IT Career Gym.
Software engineering internships 2027: timeline and where to apply
Amazon opened in July, Google's window lasts two to four weeks in October. Month-by-month calendar, pay per hour, and what to do if you are starting late.
Efficiency DNA: How Stripe's Principles Shape the Dream Team
The stripes' code: Users First, Politely Relentless, and writing over meetings. Three culture dimensions, an interview red-flag map, and a feedback loop for engineers and managers.
The Avito Interview in 2026: How to Pass Every Hiring Stage
Avito’s 2026 engineering loop: HR screen, Go and distributed systems, practical algorithms, listing-search system design, and a final culture round. A two-week plan plus mock interviews and quizzes on the gym.
My manager won't promote me. What do I do?
The three pillars of promotion and stories from Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft: readiness, perception, and when to speak up about your career.
Go Interview Theory: 22 Core Questions Explained with Tables and Diagrams
A Go theory cheat sheet: goroutines vs threads, buffered channels, the G-M-P scheduler, concurrent GC, slices vs arrays, maps, strings, interfaces, defer, data races, context, and runtime init. Tables, pitfalls, 30-second answers.
System Design Interview Theory: 12 Must-Know Concepts
Master 12 core System Design interview topics: replication, sharding, databases, indexes, proxies, load balancing, distributed transactions, outbox/inbox, backups, partitioning, replication modes, and delivery guarantees.
Data Scientist vs Data Engineer in 2026: The Complete Career Guide
A 2026 career comparison: Data Engineer vs Data Scientist across work, stack, salaries, degrees, specializations, and market growth. Tables, workflows, a decision framework — then practice the answer on a mock.
Algorithm & Data Structure Interview Questions: The Complete Guide
The six theory prompts that show up beside coding tasks: sorting families, graph shortest paths, dynamic arrays vs lists, balanced BSTs, complete trees, and hash collisions. Trade-offs, follow-ups, and a complexity cheat sheet.
System design for agentic AI: interview questions and answers
Eight prompts that showed up in 2026 loops, a six-box skeleton for any agent, and the follow-ups that sink candidates: retries, approvals, cost per task.
System Design Interview Prep & Questions (2026 Guide)
A 2026 prep map: what changed, real prompt families, a five-step 45-minute loop, week plans — then timed quizzes and a pair mock so the list is not memorization.
How to pass a coding interview when AI assistants are everywhere (2026)
Some loops hand you an assistant, others disqualify you for opening one. Which companies do what, how the AI-enabled round is scored, and a drill for both.
The 10 Best System Design Books to Sharpen Your Skills in 2026
A 2026 reading list for system design interviews: Kleppmann, Xu, Newman, Huyen — then quizzes, a pair mock, and Gym courses so the books do not stay theory.
What Is a Data Scientist? Role, Skills, and Career Path for 2026
A 2026 guide to the data scientist role: daily work, vs analyst and engineer, Python/SQL/ML, pay bands, and a skill map you can practice on a mock.
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to the most popular questions about the IT‑Career‑Gym platform
IT‑Career‑Gym is a platform for IT professionals and employers: it matches you with a partner for mutual mock interviews, offers quizzes on technologies and languages, a participant rating, and job and resume postings. It runs as two interfaces over shared data — the website and a Telegram bot.
You create a request: pick a direction (IT or a foreign language), a specialization, your own grade and the grade range for your partner. The system looks for a counterpart request that suits both sides and, once a pair is found, shows the contact in your account on the website (My subscriptions). You may also get an email or Telegram notification depending on your settings. You run the interview yourselves — time and format are up to you.
Click "Register" in the top menu, enter your name, email and password, and pick a role — specialist or employer. A confirmation code is sent to that address. You can also sign in with Telegram, in which case no password is needed.
No — Telegram is not required. Registration, partner search for mock interviews, vacancy matching, quizzes and the leaderboard all work on the website. When a pair or vacancy match is found, you see it in the header bell and in your account (My subscriptions, Match history). You can link Telegram in your profile for messenger alerts — it is optional.
The rating is the sum of points from quizzes, pet projects and matches. More practice moves you up. Reviews do not affect it.
IT interview courses and guides: mocks, System Design, C4
A paired-mock guide and two Stepik courses: System Design and C4.
How to run paired mock interviews
How to run an IT section, a language mock, and a walkthrough checklist — the meeting frame, not a video course.
Open the guide →System Design Website
Design a website from scratch the way engineering interviews ask for it. Price and progress live on Stepik.
Open on Stepik →C4 + AI: architecture diagrams without a messy board
Context / container / component / code — how to get a readable diagram, including with AI.
Open on Stepik →Nothing in this category yet
FAQ
Price, Stepik vs our guide, signup, and what to do after a course.
The IT Career Gym guide on this site is free. The two architecture courses are on Stepik — price and access live there. On this platform you can open the list, find a mock partner, and take quizzes without buying a “course pack”.
The guide is how to run a paired mock: IT section, languages, a walkthrough checklist. Stepik hosts full courses on System Design and the C4 model. Different formats — we do not glue them into one “learning path”.
You can read the on-site guide and open Stepik without an account. Finding a mock partner or taking a quiz on IT Career Gym needs registration.
Do not leave it as a “read later” tab. Find a partner on the match page or run a quiz. System design sticks when you explain the diagram out loud.
Not yet — we do not draw empty cards for those roles. Security, FDE, and hiring are covered in the blog. If another real course appears, it will land in this list.
Blog write-ups
PET projects
IT specialist portfolio: publish projects, earn likes and XP
Пет‑проект — это сигнал навыков сильнее строки в резюме: видно, что человек собрал, какой стек использовал и как оформил результат.
- Выберите стек и уровень в фильтрах ниже.
- Откройте карточку — GitHub, демо, описание задачи.
- Перейдите в кабинет кандидатов или опубликуйте вакансию под этот профиль.
Чтобы открыть полный каталог пет‑проектов, добавить работу или посмотреть свои проекты, войдите в аккаунт. Настройки подбора, примеры карточек и описание раздела ниже доступны без регистрации.
Настройки подбора
Примеры карточек — полный каталог после входа
Каталог проектов
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Станьте первым — опубликуйте свой пет‑проект
Как устроен каталог ПЭТ‑проектов на IT‑Career‑Gym
ПЭТ‑проекты — портфолио IT-специалистов: стек, категория, сложность и статус. Работодатели и коллеги смотрят живой опыт, а не только резюме. Публикация даёт лайки и XP в рейтинге.
Filter settings on this page are public: JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, Go, React, Django, FastAPI, Docker; categories Web, Frontend, Backend, Mobile, Data/ML, DevOps, QA, Security. Sample cards are below. The full catalog, “My projects” and publishing unlock after sign-in.
Связка с платформой: прокачать стек — квизы, найти партнёра для мока — мэтч, вакансии — подбор работы. После входа проект появляется в каталоге с репозиторием, демо и описанием.
Создай свой пет‑проект
Заполните форму, чтобы поделиться проектом с сообществом и работодателями.
Post a Vacancy
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My jobs
Список объявлений, отклики и статусы найма — без отдельной ATS.
Войдите как работодатель, чтобы открыть свои вакансии и отклики. Как устроен кабинет — в тексте ниже.
Статус меняется в списке на карточке; на компьютере карточку можно перетащить.
Что лежит в «Моих вакансиях»
Это рабочий список работодателя, не публичный каталог. Здесь черновики, активные объявления и архив: сколько человек открыли карточку и сколько отправили резюме.
Новую роль собирают в размещении вакансии. Как платформа ищет людей с практикой, а не только PDF, — на странице для работодателей.
Отклики по этапам
Доска делит отклики на новые, скрининг, интервью, оффер, наняты и отказ. На телефоне колонки листаются вбок; статус всегда можно сменить без перетаскивания.
Частые вопросы
- Чем «Мои вакансии» отличаются от каталога?
- Каталог видят специалисты. Здесь ваш список: черновики, активные и архив, просмотры и отклики. Публичная карточка открывается по своей ссылке.
- Что будет, если закрыть вакансию?
- Она пропадает из каталога и остаётся в архиве на этой странице. Отклики не удаляются. Решающий навык можно записать в базе знаний.
- Как смотреть отклики по этапам?
- Откройте «Доску». Статус меняется селектом на карточке или перетаскиванием. Сводка по одной роли — в воронке найма.
Hiring funnel
Просмотры, отклики и этапы по вашей вакансии
Knowledge base
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What gets in the way of hiring, and how the platform handles it
You can't tell the real level from a résumé
The application shows stack quizzes, mock practice and the candidate's pet projects.
Hundreds of irrelevant applications
Job match in %, filters by stack and level, pre-screening questions.
Hiring lives in spreadsheets and email
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It's unclear what the job post is missing
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Where candidates drop off, for every job.
Candidate comparison
Match, quizzes and projects side by side.
ATS check of the job post
A score and hints before you publish.
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- Flexible publishingPublic, by link or scheduled. Drafts and an archive.
- Knowledge baseThe deciding skill for each closed role, so you see who you actually hire.
Your first job post in 5 minutes
- Employer sign-up
Email, or Google, GitHub, GitLab.
- Job post with an ATS check
Role, stack and level; the score shows what to add.
- Applications and matches
Candidates with a match score.
- Board up to the offer
Stages, funnel, knowledge base.
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Product Modernization - ACC+AJO Migration - Senior Technical Consultant
VML · from the company careers page ·
- Format
- Office
- Employment
- Full-time
- Grade
- senior
- Who can apply
- office or hybrid in the city · IN
- Location
- Noida, India
You apply on the source site: we do not keep recruiter contacts. Build your CV in the Resume section
Did you apply on the source site?
Who We Are
VML is a global creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce to create connected brands that drive growth. Guided by a Human First philosophy, VML is known for its innovative work for brands and consistently ranks among the world’s leading creative companies, including the WARC Creative 100. VML’s global network spans 55+ markets with principal offices in Buenos Aires, Kansas City, London, New York, São Paulo, Shanghai and Singapore.
VML is part of WPP, the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. Powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform WPP Open, WPP unites cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, creativity, production, enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel.
For more information, please visit www.vml.com and follow along on LinkedIn #WeAreVML.
The opportunity
We seek Senior Consultants and Architects with deep, hands-on expertise in Adobe Campaign Classic (ACC), Adobe Campaign Standard (ACS), Adobe Experience Platform (AEP), and Adobe Journey Optimizer (AJO) to help enterprise customers modernize campaign and customer-journey programs. The role leads discovery, current-state assessment, target-state architecture, implementation, integration, testing, coexistence, cutover, and enablement. You will understand how customers use ACC or ACS today, identify use cases suited to AJO, and redesign them for AEP and AJO. Some functionality must be rebuilt, redesigned, retained, or handled through an integration or alternative solution. Candidates must explain product boundaries, assess feature and use-case fit, surface gaps early, and set realistic customer expectations. In AJO, a migrated use case lands on AJO Journeys (profile-centric, event-driven orchestration on AEP Real-Time Customer Profile) or AJO Orchestrated Campaigns (campaign-centric, batch, multi-step workflows on the AEP relational data store). Candidates must design and build on both, and recommend the right path per use case.
What you’ll be doing
Description 11
- Assess and plan
· Lead discovery workshops with marketing, campaign operations, data, architecture, security, mobile, and IT stakeholders.
· Inventory the Campaign estate: use cases (batch, scheduled, transactional, event-triggered, real-time); assets (campaigns, workflows, audiences, deliveries, templates, content blocks, personalization, typologies, suppression rules, reporting); data (schemas and extensions, custom resources, relational data, targeting dimensions, identifiers, consent, opt-out, quarantine, bounce, engagement history); and infrastructure (on-premises or Managed Services hosting, network access, firewalls, file transfer, decommissioning needs).
· Reverse-engineer custom logic and document the business rules: technical and marketing workflows (query, enrichment, split, deduplication, reconciliation, update data, JavaScript code activities), custom JavaScript, JSSP, SOAP/JS API calls, SQL functions, stored procedures, custom relational structures, typology rules, input forms, web applications, landing pages, subscriptions, Message Center, Triggers/pipeline, offer logic, external accounts, APIs, middleware, and enterprise integrations.
· Map each use case and dependency to an AJO/AEP target pattern and classify it as reuse, redesign, rebuild, integrate, defer, or retain elsewhere. For custom logic, decide whether to re-express it in AEP/AJO (data model, Query Service, custom actions, external services), redesign or rebuild it separately, or retain it in Campaign.
· Choose the execution path per use case based on the target customer experience, not the shape of the source Campaign workflow. Use AJO Journeys when each profile should progress individually based on behaviour, events, or elapsed time, including many scheduled and recurring Campaign workflows rebuilt as Read Audience or business-event journeys. Use Orchestrated Campaigns for relational or multi-entity data, complex audience construction and enrichment, exact pre-send counts, and multi-level sending. Use action campaigns for simple scheduled or API-triggered sends. Document the rationale, combined patterns, and license prerequisites (e.g., the Journey Optimizer Campaigns package).
· Surface product-fit gaps and operational impacts before committing to scope or feature-parity claims. Advise when Campaign coexistence or another path fits better: Campaign v8 for ACC customers, or the ACS-to-Campaign v8 transition for ACS customers.
· Develop phased roadmaps, effort estimates, dependency plans, risks, and customer decision points.
- Architect and implement
· Design the AEP foundation: XDM schemas and field groups (profile, event, lookup); identity namespaces, identity resolution, profile enablement, and data relationships; datasets, sources, destinations, batch and streaming ingestion, and event design; data quality and governance; audience qualification and segmentation; and Query Service or other processing for transformation, aggregation, and enrichment.
· Replace common Campaign data patterns with AEP capabilities: Federated Audience Composition on Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Databricks, or other warehouses (closest to ACC Federated Data Access); computed attributes for profile-level aggregates; Data Distiller for scheduled SQL transformations; merge policies; and profile and segmentation guardrails.
· Design customer experiences and build AJO journeys and campaigns across batch and event-driven engagement: event- and segment-triggered orchestration, conditions, actions, custom actions, message content, personalization, and decisioning.
· Apply journey and campaign governance and optimization: business rules, frequency capping, quiet hours, journey priority and arbitration, conflict management, wave sending, content experimentation, and decisioning policies and rankings.
· Define security, access, permissions, governance, and operational controls.
- Build channels, integrations, and extensibility
· Configure AJO channels end to end: email, mobile and web push, in-app, web, code-based experiences, content cards, inbox, live activities, SMS/MMS, RCS, WhatsApp, LINE, and direct mail. Cover channel configurations, subdomains, API credentials, feedback webhooks, mobile app and SDK dependencies, channel-specific data and consent requirements, and template approval rules (e.g., WhatsApp/Meta).
· Connect messaging providers: native SMS providers (Sinch, Twilio, Infobip); bring-your-own-provider (BYOP) setups with provider payloads, inbound keyword handling, delivery receipts, and opt-in/opt-out webhooks and flows; and Channel Builder custom channels for non-native platforms or customer-owned gateways (e.g., regional or industry-specific providers), covering endpoint, authentication, throttling, payload structure, and monitoring.
· Design and build integrations using supported APIs, source connectors, file exchange, middleware, or Adobe solution integrations, including custom actions that call external systems from journeys (CRM, loyalty, order, recommendation, call-center, notification services) with request/response schemas, authentication (OAuth 2.0, API keys, mTLS), capping, throttling, retries, and error handling.
· Implement event and API-triggered patterns: unitary and business events, API-triggered and transactional campaigns, Interactive Message Execution / Journey and Campaign APIs, and streaming ingestion via HTTP API.
- Design and build Journeys (profile-centric)
· Select and configure the journey entry pattern per use case: unitary-event journeys for behavioural and transactional signals; audience qualification journeys on streaming audiences for real-time lifecycle moments; Read Audience journeys, one-shot or recurring with incremental read, for scheduled and batch-initiated programs that previously ran as recurring Campaign workflows; and business-event journeys that release an audience when an operational event occurs (e.g., a price drop or flight delay). Configure identity namespaces, reentrance and wait periods, exit criteria, and time zones.
· Build multi-step journeys where each customer progresses at their own pace: Wait activities; the Optimize activity for conditions, path targeting, and path experiments; reaction events on opens and clicks with timeout paths; Update Profile; Content Decision for offers; external data sources and custom actions for real-time lookups and system writebacks; and Jump activities to split complex programs into reusable journeys.
· Use supplemental identifiers (e.g., order, booking, subscription, or policy IDs), where enabled, to run one journey instance per entity and personalize with its attributes. Decide when per-entity use cases fit journeys versus orchestrated campaign multi-level sending.
· Support phased migration and coexistence from the journey canvas, including Adobe Campaign v7/v8 and ACS actions that let AJO orchestrate while Campaign transactional messaging delivers, until channels and content move to native AJO.
· Design within journey guardrails (one active instance per profile per journey, one Read Audience per journey and concurrent-run limits, entrance and processing throughput per sandbox, Jump and supplemental identifier restrictions, reaction event placement, custom action capping, and versioning impact on live profiles). Flag gaps to the customer early.
- Design and build Orchestrated Campaigns (relational)
· Design the data model with AEP relational (model-based) schemas, built manually or from a DDL or Excel upload: tables, primary and composite keys, version descriptors (e.g., lastmodified), ENUMs, data governance labels, identity fields mapped to identity namespaces, and links with correct cardinality (1-N, N-1, 1-1) to recipient and profile entities.
· Configure target dimensions, including the profile target dimension linking XDM profile and experience event data to relational data; decide what belongs in the profile store versus relational tables to avoid duplication.
· Set up Change Data Capture (CDC) ingestion from supported sources (e.g., Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, SFTP, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Azure Databricks, Data Landing Zone): the _change_request_type field for file-based loads, table logging for cloud warehouses, complete-record loads, deletion handling, and latency planning.
· Build multi-step canvases with targeting, flow control, and channel activities (Build, Read, and Save audience, Enrichment, Change dimension, Combine, Deduplication, Reconciliation, Split, Fork, AND-join, Wait, Alert), including multi-entity segmentation and multi-level sending (e.g., one message per booking, contract, subscription, account, or address linked to a profile) personalized with enriched relational attributes. Configure scheduling, recurring runs, and pre-send count validation.
· Design within orchestrated campaign guardrails (table count and schema size limits, daily change-volume limits, scalar-only audience attributes, uncached audience evaluation, permanent dataset table names, channel availability by license). Flag gaps to the customer early.
- Migrate data, logic, and personalization
· Translate the ACC/ACS relational data model to AEP: map recipient, custom, and relational tables to XDM profile, experience event, and lookup schemas, or to relational schemas for orchestrated campaigns; define primary and secondary identities, relationships, cardinality, and denormalization trade-offs.
· Migrate historical and operational data (profile attributes, subscriptions, consent and opt-out status, quarantine and bounce history, engagement data) via batch backfill, delta loads, and reconciliation reports. Map ACC/ACS denylist and subscription data to the AEP Consent and Preferences field group and AJO subscription lists; load quarantined and bounced addresses into the AJO suppression list via the Suppression API so blocked recipients stay blocked from day one.
· Rebuild Campaign workflow logic according to the chosen path. For journeys, express targeting as AEP audiences (batch, streaming, or edge) and computed attributes, recurring workflows as scheduled Read Audience journeys, and waits, splits, and tests as Wait and Optimize activities. For orchestrated campaigns, rebuild queries, enrichments, splits, union/intersection/exclusion, deduplication, change dimension, and reconciliation as canvas activities. Use Query Service (SQL/CTAS) jobs or source dataflows for scheduled imports/exports and data preparation. Move logic neither canvas supports (JavaScript activities and code, SQL code, loops, file manipulation) to the source system, Query Service or Data Distiller, or external services.
· Re-architect lifecycle programs (welcome, onboarding, renewal, win-back, abandonment) built in Campaign as chained or recurring workflows into journeys, replacing workflow-based state tracking (custom flags, prior-recipient exclusion lists, wait loops) with journey state, reentrance rules, and exit criteria.
· Convert ACC/ACS HTML content, templates, and personalization (<%= %> scripting, JavaScript in content, personalization blocks, conditional content) to AJO content templates and Handlebars/PQL: helper functions, conditional and dynamic content, expression and visual fragments, and decisioning outputs. Validate matching output with seed and test profiles.
· Map Message Center, Triggers/pipeline, and other transactional or signal-driven flows to AJO unitary-event journeys or API-triggered campaigns, and typology, pressure, and fatigue rules to AJO business rules, frequency capping, suppression rules, and quiet hours.
· Migrate ACC Interaction offer logic (catalogs, categories, eligibility rules, weights, typology and presentation rules, inbound and outbound environments) to AJO Decisioning: decision items,
collections, selection strategies, ranking formulas or AI models, and capping. Confirm whether the customer is licensed for Decisioning or legacy Offer Decisioning.
· Rebuild Campaign landing pages, subscription and preference centers, web and survey forms, ACC web applications, and JSSP pages as AJO landing pages, subscription lists, or customer-owned web front ends connected through AEP APIs, writing consent and preferences back to AEP.
- Deliver, test, and transition
· Establish development, test/stage, and production delivery practices with Git version control and a sandbox strategy. Support controlled promotion and release management with AEP sandbox tooling packages (schemas, audiences, journeys, content templates), journey versioning, simulation, and dry-run checks before publishing.
· Build requirements-traceable test strategies and plans covering data and identity validation, audience counts, journey logic, personalization, rendering, API behavior, consent, suppression, channel delivery, and reporting.
· Design dual-run and cutover plans, synchronizing and reconciling consent, opt-outs, quarantine, bounces, profile data, and engagement history as needed.
· Plan deliverability readiness and email domain migration: subdomain delegation (full or CNAME), SPF, DKIM, DMARC, BIMI, one-click List-Unsubscribe headers, Gmail/Yahoo bulk-sender requirements, IP pools and strategy, ramp-up and warm-up, bounce, quarantine, suppression, and opt-in/opt-out handling, and operational monitoring and reporting.
· Rebuild Campaign reporting and tracking with AJO built-in journey and campaign reports, Customer Journey Analytics where licensed, and Query Service on AJO system datasets (message feedback, email tracking, journey step events). Agree with the customer which ACC reports, KPIs, and tracking logs need equivalents.
· Define measurable launch and migration acceptance criteria; support business validation, production readiness, go-live, stabilization, and continuous improvement.
· Hand over with implementation documentation, architecture diagrams, reproducible data mapping specifications, runbooks, testing evidence, and operational and support materials; coach customer teams on the AJO operating model, AEP concepts, changed workflows, new responsibilities, and adoption needs.
What we want from you
- Adobe Campaign Classic - ACC v7/v8 architecture and implementation, including mid-sourcing, FFDA/Snowflake on v8, and Federated Data Access. Campaign data model and XML schema extensions; workflows and technical workflows; targeting and enrichment; deliveries, templates, personalization, typologies, and rules; transactional messaging (Message Center) and Triggers where applicable; tracking and delivery data; JSSP, web applications, SOAP APIs, packages, and external accounts; customizations and integrations.
- Adobe Campaign Standard - ACS campaign and workflow design; audiences, deliveries, templates, personalization, channel configuration, data resources, imports/exports, APIs, and consent and subscription practices. Assessing ACS implementations and translating requirements to AEP/AJO design.
- Adobe Experience Platform - XDM modeling; schemas, datasets, identity namespaces and identity resolution; Real-Time Customer Profile concepts; batch and streaming ingestion; sources and destinations; segmentation; Query Service/data transformation; governance and consent considerations; sandboxes and environment strategy.
- Adobe Journey Optimizer - Journey and campaign design (action, API-triggered, orchestrated); unitary, business, and audience-based patterns; journey activities, conditions
What we can offer you
Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, we’ll also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. We’ll empower you to make a difference, allow you to be yourself, and respect who you are.
Our culture thrives on our core values, designed for impact-driven individuals: Heart, Brains and Courage.
We lead with Heart , fostering empathy and trust where genuine connections and human-centric work flourish.
We empower your Brains for innovation, valuing relentless curiosity and collaborative intelligence to solve complex challenges.
And we champion Courage , inspiring you to speak up, embrace experimentation, and advocate for bold solutions that push our thinking to be better than yesterday.
AT VML Enterprise Solutions
Our Enterprise Solutions division houses strategic consultants, creative and technical architects and skilled developers and operators that together help some of the world’s leading organisations to deliver outstanding digital experiences across all major routes to market worldwide: marketplaces, online retailers, D2C, B2B and social platforms. With over 4,200 experts in 55 operational centres across 34 countries, our capabilities span the entire buying journey from customer acquisition, through engagement, to conversion and loyalty, driving multi-channel growth for world-leading brands.
We work with some of the most exciting brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, EY, Bosch, Unilever, Ford, DFS, Mercedes-Benz, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Sainsbury’s, Selfridges, Shell and Tiffany & Co. We’ve built over 500 platforms for brands and retailers and generate in excess of $29bn annually for our clients and work with over 50 strategic partners including Adobe, SAP, Salesforce, HCL, Shopify, Sitecore, BigCommerce, commerce tools and Acquia. Our reputation is based on our people, and we believe we have some of the best in the business.
As our business grows internationally, we’re looking for new people to join us on our journey to inspire and take a key role in shaping some of the best commerce solutions, services, and websites in the world. Working as a team, no problem is insurmountable; we share in our client’s successes and believe that anyone can show creative bravery no matter what their role is in the team.
We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a
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Vacancy matches
Filters → a search request → matching. We notify you when a job fits.
Sign in to create a vacancy search request. How matching works is explained below, no account needed.
How vacancy matching works
IT‑Career‑Gym looks for jobs against your request: role, stack, grade, work format and city. You can still browse the job catalogue — the request keeps working when an employer posts something new.
Applications send your base resume. The platform does not call HR for you: match, notification, vacancy card — you decide whether to apply.
Requests and notifications
Active requests live under My searches: pause them without dropping history. Matched jobs collect in a separate list — handy after a few notifications.
Email, Telegram, or both — pick a channel in your profile. While a search is running you may get a short reminder that the request is still on.
My vacancy searches
Active requests: pause or delete them while matching runs.
Sign in to see and manage vacancy search requests. How requests work is explained below, no account needed.
How to manage vacancy search requests
My searches holds your requests: role, stack, grade, format and city. Pause a request and the matched jobs stay in history.
A new filter set is built under vacancy matches. Each card shows whether search is running and how many jobs already fit.
When a request finds a job
Matched jobs open from the request card and also collect in match history. Applications send your base resume — the platform does not call HR for you.
Email, Telegram, or both — pick a channel in your profile. While a search is running you may get a short reminder that the request is still on.
Vacancy match history
Jobs that fitted your search requests
Sign in to see jobs that fitted your search requests.
Matched jobs
Sign in to see jobs for this request.
My resume
One resume per account — it is what you send to employers when applying.
Sign in to upload a resume and apply to vacancies.
Why a base resume
One resume per account is sent to the employer when you apply from the job catalogue and from matches. Formats: PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, TXT — up to 5 MB.
You can browse the catalogue without an account. To apply, sign in as a specialist and upload a file on this page.
Find Specialists
Отклики на ваши вакансии и соответствие по навыкам
Подходящие по заявкам
Нет активных заявок, которые совпадают с этой вакансией.
Become a partner
IT‑компании публикуют роли и проводят подбор. Вузы и онлайн-школы подключают студентов к практике и вакансиям на платформе.
Кто может стать партнёром
IT-компании
Публикуйте стажировки и junior-вакансии, проводите дни подбора и смотрите кандидатов с живой практикой — квизы, пет-проекты, мок-собеседования.
Вузы
Площадка для практики студентов и контакт с работодателями. Платформа помогает выпускникам выйти на работу.
Онлайн-школы
Канал трудоустройства выпускников, видимость для HR и совместные карьерные треки с компаниями.
Как это работает
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Заявка
Заполните форму на этой странице
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Проверка
Уточним сценарий сотрудничества в рабочие дни
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Онбординг
Откроем кабинет организации или работодателя
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Публикация
Стажировки, карточка в каталоге, дни подбора
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Результат
Первые кандидаты и трудоустройство выпускников
A practice gym for engineers targeting product-company interview loops
Возможности для партнёров
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Помощь трудоустроить выпускников
Помогаем выпускникам выйти на работу: список вакансий и стажировок плюс подготовка — квизы, мок-собеседования и практика на платформе.
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Публикация вакансий и стажировок
Размещайте роли в каталоге и находите отклики по стеку и грейду.
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Мероприятия
Дни подбора, карьерные встречи и совместные активности с вузами и школами.
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Аналитика
Просмотры, отклики и метрики карточки организации в кабинете партнёра.
Заявка на партнёрство
Кратко расскажите об организации — мы свяжемся с Вами в рабочие дни.
Частые вопросы
После заявки мы связываемся в рабочие дни, уточняем сценарий и открываем доступ к кабинету.
Площадка для практики студентов, видимость для работодателей и канал трудоустройства выпускников — условия согласуем индивидуально.
Здесь Вы подаёте заявку на партнёрство с платформой. Каталог — уже опубликованные организации.
Оставить заявку
Подключим компанию, вуз или школу к IT‑Career‑Gym и согласуем следующий шаг.
Подать заявкуPartners catalog
Вузы, IT-школы, bootcamp и HR-партнёры для найма джуниоров и стажёров
Совместные мероприятия
Ближайшие дни карьеры, хакатоны и лекции появятся здесь.
Загрузка…
Organization cabinet
Карточка партнёра, заявки и рекомендации вакансий
Find a mock interview partner
Step-by-step partner matching for a practice IT or language interview
Чтобы создать заявку на поиск партнёра, войдите в аккаунт. Описание сервиса ниже доступно без регистрации.
Как работает подбор партнёра
IT‑Career‑Gym helps you find a partner for a practice interview: pick a track (IT or languages), specialization, your grade, and the grade range you want. The system searches website and Telegram requests and notifies you in the account bell when a pair is ready.
Собеседование вы проводите сами — в удобное время и в выбранном формате. Платформа нужна для мэтча, напоминаний и истории, а не для замены живого разговора.
Подписки и история
Активные заявки живут в разделе «Мои подписки»: их можно отключить, пока партнёр не найден. Грейд на карточке не меняется — новую заявку собирают в поиске. Прошедшие моки и отзывы о партнёрах собраны в «Истории».
Такой цикл — поиск, мэтч, практика, фиксация результата — помогает готовиться к реальному интервью без лишней бюрократии и с понятным следующим шагом.
My Subscriptions
Активные заявки на поиск партнёров по собеседованиям
Чтобы видеть и управлять заявками на поиск партнёра, войдите в аккаунт. Как устроены подписки — ниже, без регистрации.
Как управлять подписками на поиск партнёра
В «Моих подписках» хранятся заявки на поиск пары для мок-собеседования: специализация, свой грейд и диапазон грейда партнёра. Подписку можно поставить на паузу или удалить — грейд на карточке не редактируется.
Новую заявку с другими грейдами собирают в разделе поиска партнёра. Каждая карточка показывает, идёт ли поиск, и можно ли повторять уже найденных людей.
Когда подписка находит партнёра
Найденные люди открываются из карточки заявки. Прошедшие моки и отзывы живут в истории собеседований. Собеседование вы проводите сами — платформа нужна для мэтча и напоминаний.
Куда писать о мэтче — почта, Telegram или оба канала — настраивается в профиле. Пока подписка активна, можно получить короткое напоминание, что заявка ещё ищет пару.
Quizzes
Test your knowledge in the chosen sub-specialization: express, deep, and thematic formats.
29,590 questions across 1,499 sets in the bank — enough for lots of practice.
Чтобы пройти квиз или открыть историю попыток, войдите в аккаунт. Описание формата ниже доступно без регистрации.
Форматы квизов на IT‑Career‑Gym
На платформе можно проверить знания по Backend, Frontend, DevOps и другим специализациям. Экспресс — 5 вопросов, глубокий — 20, тематический — 15. Число вопросов вручную — только в расширенном режиме.
Экспресс подходит для разминки перед собеседованием, глубокий — для системной оценки, тематический — чтобы закрыть конкретный пробел. Сложность подстраивается по ходу: после верного ответа следующий вопрос сложнее. Часть вопросов — свободный текст. Результаты попадают в историю попыток и влияют на рейтинг.
Откройте экспресс, глубокий, тематический квиз или историю попыток. Расширенный режим на этой странице позволяет выбрать блок и число вопросов вручную (до 50). Рейтинг снижается, если копировать вопрос или уходить со страницы.
Daily challenges
Three tasks for today. Tomorrow a different set: quizzes, matches, resume, a pet project or a referral.
Почему стоит проходить челленджи каждый день?
Регулярная практика — ключ к IT‑собеседованиям. Каждый день три задания: квизы разных форматов, мэтч со специалистом или вакансией, резюме, пет-проект или реферал. Прогресс считается за реальные действия на платформе.
На IT‑Career‑Gym челленджи связаны с квизами, пет-проектами, мэтчами специалистов, мэтчами вакансий, резюме и рейтингом. Набор карточек меняется каждый день.
Частые вопросы
Что такое ежедневные челленджи в IT‑Career‑Gym?
Это три задания на сегодня: пройти квиз нужного формата, найти мэтч, откликнуться на вакансию, обновить резюме или пет-проект, подняться в рейтинге или отправить рефералку. Карточки меняются каждый день, прогресс идёт с реальных действий, а не с чеклиста.
Как заработать XP и удержать стрик?
Закройте карточки дня — за каждое задание начисляется бонус XP. Стрик растёт, если вы активны каждый день. Пропуск дня сбрасывает серию. Энергия списывается только за старт обычного квиза.
Нужно ли платить за челленджи?
Нет: задания бесплатны для специалистов. Super даёт безлимит энергии на квизы, но не прячет челленджи. У работодателей челленджей нет.
IT‑Career‑Gym Super
Level up your IT career
Unlimited quizzes, PET projects, the rating, and partner plus vacancy search without Basic limits
Почему Super?
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Безлимитная практика
Квизы без потолка энергии базового тарифа — Super даёт безлимит, тренируйтесь когда удобно.
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Рейтинг и признание
Доступ к общей таблице: работодатели видят тех, кто уже прошёл практику.
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ПЭТ‑проекты
На базовом — 1 проект. Super даёт безлимит: живое портфолио, которое видят работодатели.
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Безлимитные мэтчи
Поиск партнёра для мока и вакансий без лимита 1+2 поиска.
Plans for candidates
Reviews
An absolute gem! 🔥 Saved my interview prep. Studying alone is hard; with a partner it feels like a real interview. We drilled algorithms, debated architecture, and fixed each other's mistakes. I felt much calmer walking into the employer meeting. Result: offer received! If you're tired of prepping in a vacuum — try it! 🙌
A genuinely useful tool! I quickly found a practice partner, we rehearsed typical questions and tough cases together. Prep was efficient and low-stress — and it ended with an offer! Huge thanks to the creators; the bot really helps build skills and confidence before interviews. Highly recommend! 🚀
Great bot! Helped me find a partner for IT interview prep. Studying together was far more effective, and I passed the interview and landed a job. Thank you ☺️
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AI assistant
Вопросы и разбор ответов — как на IT-собеседовании.
Чат доступен на тарифах кандидата от 499 ₽/мес. Страницу можно читать без подписки.
Текстовый мок: вопросы, разбор ответов и слабые места по вашему стеку.
Можно прикрепить файл резюме — в запрос уйдёт текст без email и Telegram.
Чем помогает ИИ‑ассистент
ИИ‑ассистент IT‑Career‑Gym — отдельная страница с чатом: Coach готовит к собеседованию, Resume Reviewer разбирает резюме под ATS, Career Path строит план обучения, Quiz Generator предлагает вопросы по слабым темам, Match Helper подсказывает партнёра для мока.
Ассистент опирается на ваш профиль, историю квизов и загруженное резюме. Ответы приходят структурированным markdown со списками и подсветкой кода. Это тренировка на платформе, а не замена живого интервью.
Как связан с квизами и мэтчами
На поиске партнёра есть тизер с переходом в режим Match Helper. В квизах кнопка «Спросить ИИ» открывает чат с темой. Разбор файла — со страницы резюме. Практику закрепите в ПЭТ‑проектах.
Доступ к чату — на тарифах кандидата от 499 ₽/мес (10 / 30 запросов в день или безлимит на год). Описание режимов на этой странице открыто всем, в том числе без регистрации.
Частые вопросы
Что умеет ИИ‑ассистент IT‑Career‑Gym?
Ассистент помогает готовиться к IT-собеседованию: генерирует вопросы и проводит текстовый мок, разбирает резюме под ATS, строит карьерный план, предлагает квизы по слабым темам и подсказывает, какого партнёра искать для мока.
Нужна ли платная подписка для ИИ‑ассистента?
Да: чат доступен на тарифах кандидата от 499 ₽/мес. На базовом тарифе страница открывается с описанием возможностей и предложением оформить план. Лимит запросов: 10 в день на месяц, 30 на квартал, безлимит на год.
Как ассистент связан с квизами и мэтчами?
Из квиза можно нажать «Спросить ИИ» — чат откроется с темой и форматом. В подборе партнёра тизер ведёт в режим Match Helper. Сгенерированные вопросы можно сразу продолжить в разделе квизов, а заявку на мэтч — подтвердить кнопкой в чате.
Безопасно ли загружать резюме в чат?
Файл обрабатывается на сервере платформы и не попадает в публичный каталог. В промпт к модели уходит текстовый фрагмент без email и Telegram. История диалогов видна только в вашем аккаунте.
На каких языках отвечает ассистент?
На языке вашего сообщения — русском или английском, как интерфейс IT‑Career‑Gym. Ответы структурированы: списки, заголовки и подсветка кода.
Interview History
Ваши прошедшие тренировочные собеседования
Profile
Ваши данные, роль и специализации
Subscription payment
Оплата картой или СБП через защищённую форму Т‑Банка
СБП доступен на форме Т‑Банка после перехода к оплате.
Оплата криптовалютой появится позже. Сейчас доступны карта и СБП через Т‑Банк.
Донат
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Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to the most popular questions about the IT‑Career‑Gym platform
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