Talent
Clients Speak
«In a market where outsourcing has been relegated to mindless maintenance, the key differentiator is that Luxoft provides real engineers. Their talent continually exceeds our expectations on what we expect from outsourcing, and their engineers are fully capable of providign depth of throught. Luxoft engineers can be trusted to make business critical decisions, and can manage full software lifecycles independently, despite being thousands of miles and several time zones apart.»Albert C. Lee,
Executive Director of Information Technology at New York Media
Facts and Figures
- Around 3000 employees worldwide
- 80+% have Master Degree or higher
- 80+% have 5+ years experience
- Attrition - 5%
Luxoft Team - The Talent that Drives Your Business Success
Outstanding people are the driving force behind Luxoft’s growth, innovation and leadership. With its global reach, Luxoft is ideally positioned to tap into the best talent in Russia, Eastern Europe, South East Asia, and North America.
Heritage of Scientific and Engineering Excellence
Luxoft benefits from the strong math and science tradition of its base in Russia and Ukraine. The culture of engineering excellence there dates back to the space exploration era. Nowadays, Russia ranks number three in the number of scientists and engineers per capita worldwide. Fifty per cent of over 4.7 million Russian students are majoring in science, math, and computer sciences. World Bank estimates that Russia has one million specialists who are capable of joining its IT sector. High skills and low turnover have become the hallmark of Russian and Ukrainian programmers.
Attracting and Retaining the Best Talent
Over the years, Luxoft has built strong ties with the leading local colleges and universities in Eastern Europe and South East Asia. An extensive cooperation program includes scholarships and internships at Luxoft. This gives an opportunity for gifted IT students to launch their careers at Luxoft.
We know how to attract, recruit and retain the talented specialists. Luxoft’s attrition rate of only 5% speaks for itself. For our global delivery centers and representative offices, we hire the best of the best in our industry. As the diagrams below illustrate, more than 60 percent of Luxoft employees are senior specialists with over seven years of IT related experience combined with industry domain knowledge. Over 80 percent have been educated to Ph.D. or Master’s degree level.
Talent Development Programs
At Luxoft, we grow and develop talent by leveraging best-in-class professional training programs along with mentoring of our senior technology specialists and industry experts. Every year, Luxoft’s state-of-the-art training center provides over a thousand specialists with general training courses and customer-specific education programs. On average, each specialist gets at least 12 days of training per year. We value our people and strive to create an exciting working environment with opportunities for limitless growth.