We love open source and hence we are very open to transparency. The inception to this blog post was an idea to share the walk through of how a user is served in a typical day by your beloved Naukri.com. Naukri is a black box which gives you results but under the hood it is way more than what anyone can think. Under the hood [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="800"] Under the hood working of a car, GIF image.[/caption] Source Something like below is what we are continuously doing to serve you better. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="549"] Car engine... Read More

Hackathon Sept 2016, We call it Hackathon 5.0 #Build #Learn #Connect Hacking is a mysterious and exciting word, and hackathon is a long stretch full of mysteries and excitement. We @Naukri organise hackathon every 6 months to experience that awesomeness and hack into our existing system. Objective, improve something, make processes hassle free and available to all, or create something from scratch that would be like a new venture for Naukri. Project idea and effort is completely yours, we just provide mentors, snacks and fun games around. 17 Sept, Hackathon 2016 Started with... Read More

Resdex is one of the most commonly used product by recruiters in the country to search the desired candidates. Resdex provides various options to ensure the hiring is more targeted and less time consuming. What is Resdex ? Resdex is Naukri.com's Resume Database Access. Naukri.com has acquired a large database of over 48.1 million jobseekers across industries, functions, locations and experience levels. With a Resdex subscription recruiters not only get access to the database but also easy to use search tools that help in searching for the right candidate with utmost convenience. ... Read More

We in Naukri.com always keep memory usage in mind while developing android applications and keep on regularly checking the memory usage of different pages. We added memory usage in our checklist before releasing any new version because racking down the android memory issue (OOM) is one of the pain full task of every android developer. OOM errors often seen on tools like Criticism or Crashlytics make developers run for the solution and finally doomed with fuzzy answers. Mobile devices typically have constrained system resources so we have to be cautious while loading the media files. The... Read More

Long story short: Naukri.com recently participated & won the first prize in DSTC Test Automation Contest held by InStep Forum on 19th April 2016 in Radisson Blu, Dwarka. Read on for the full story… It all started when we got to know about a test automation contest being held in New Delhi. Eager to participate, we sent our nomination for the contest. A few days later we received a mail from DSTC informing that we need to fill in the details of the participants & put our opinions on the latest trends in Agile & Test Automation in order to shortlist the teams that would... Read More

Did you know ? Every day 83 million people attend 11.5 million meetings No ? Ok, lets get started Meetings, a fancy word in corporate that everyone come across a lot many times (For some it can be a very effective excuse to avoid other things though :-P) Meetings are integral part of any process oriented organization. It makes sense to meet every while to get the status updates, near future plans, project deadlines, company’s future projection etc. Now why we are writing this post is because something is wrong with meetings that we all should improve and we are... Read More

Continuous integration is the talk of the town. Every business is aiming to ship products quicker with no compromise on quality. With this evolution in the IT industry, there was a huge requirement to fine tune our test processes and revive the traditional test approaches. This blog details out some of the changes that happened at Naukri leading to more focused and grown-up QA practices. Challenges faced during continuous improvement: The IT industry has evolved significantly with the changing time. This evolution is majorly driven by factors like advancement in information technology,... Read More

What describes the success of an event? The fact that people want it to happen again very soon. Yes, Hackathon 3.0 ended with much appreciation and excitement with people discovering what they are capable of developing overnight, the response was indeed tremendous and hence the Naukri Engineering team wanted to have Hackathon twice an year. So the fourth edition of Hackathon was held on 16th-17th January 2016, with fresh ideas and enthusiasm. Employees gathered at the Naukri HQ in Noida for 24-hours of hacking fun. There were more than 50 impressive projects, many of which were completed... Read More

In Naukri, we always keep striving that our products keep high value in the terms of quality. High quality is the only key to make the business sustain. For ensuring the high quality of the product, we follow many benchmarking procedure. One of them is the AppTracer Framework. Following are some of the metrics that plays an important role to achieve the high quality: Application load time. API response time on different type of network like 2G, 3G, etc. Views render time after getting the response from API. Exception & crashes AppTracer framework provides a benchmarking... Read More

“A goal without a plan is just a wish” — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Agile, It’s all about flexibility in the course of software development phase. But flexibility is not possible without a proper plan in place. Even when we decide the architecture of a software, we often keep in mind that the software stays flexible to any changes in future and therefore design patterns come into picture. There comes Iteration,  a step by step approach. Grab yourself a cup of coffee as we are going to dig deeper into it. Planning plays a vital role in the software development life cycle. It... Read More