More than 500 Decagon technology graduates employed worldwide
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Africa's leading tech talent institute, Decagon, established in 2018 to enable outstanding young Nigerians to launch world-class software engineering careers, has now graduated over 500 developers who are employed on a paid basis by top companies around the world.
According to Founder and CEO, Chika Nwobi, this is the first major step in pursuing the institute's mission to make Nigeria one of the top 10 engineering nations software in the world.
Nwobi said this during an institute dinner and awards ceremony held in Lagos to celebrate the milestone of activating more than 500 DecaDevs.
The tech guru said the Decagon institute has graduated 10 cohorts with over 500 software engineers now working in multinational corporations like Indeed, JP Morgan, Microsoft, Sterling, RenMoney, MaxNG and Carbon, among others.
Underlining the need to be trained by the technological institute, Nwobi affirmed that DecaDevs are developers who have been equipped by Decagon with various skills to function optimally in the technological sector.< /p>
He, however, praised Sterling Bank for believing in Decagon and investing in young Nigerians as a strategic partner for student loans.
"We want the brightest to have access to this life-changing opportunity regardless of their ability to pay, so we provide housing, food, stipends, laptops and a training on a learn-and-pay principle - later model We equip DecaDevs to land jobs at top companies and are proud of them for the 100% success rate and faithful repayment of their loans .
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"Decagon is currently recruiting exceptional young talent for the next cohort and companies looking to hire our graduates can contact us to apply."
One of the beneficiaries, Joshua Christopher, said the institute helped him achieve his dream in 2 years.
He noted, "Decagon has been a catalyst in achieving my career goals. What I would have achieved in 5 years, I was able to achieve in 2 short years."
Another beneficiary, Chidinma Ifeh, said: "After Decagon, I was placed in a technology company Terragon. I worked as a back-end engineer, I use Node stack. I wouldn't have been able to do this without Decagon."
Also at the event, management thanked the organization's staff members for believing in the company's many dreams and working to achieve them.
In attendance were Lumos global CFO Laurens Kreuze; Appzone co-founder Emeka Emetarom; representatives from Sterling Bank, Microsoft, Main One and other well-known figures in the African tech space.
Please share this story:
Africa's leading tech talent institute, Decagon, established in 2018 to enable outstanding young Nigerians to launch world-class software engineering careers, has now graduated over 500 developers who are employed on a paid basis by top companies around the world.
According to Founder and CEO, Chika Nwobi, this is the first major step in pursuing the institute's mission to make Nigeria one of the top 10 engineering nations software in the world.
Nwobi said this during an institute dinner and awards ceremony held in Lagos to celebrate the milestone of activating more than 500 DecaDevs.
The tech guru said the Decagon institute has graduated 10 cohorts with over 500 software engineers now working in multinational corporations like Indeed, JP Morgan, Microsoft, Sterling, RenMoney, MaxNG and Carbon, among others.
Underlining the need to be trained by the technological institute, Nwobi affirmed that DecaDevs are developers who have been equipped by Decagon with various skills to function optimally in the technological sector.< /p>
He, however, praised Sterling Bank for believing in Decagon and investing in young Nigerians as a strategic partner for student loans.
"We want the brightest to have access to this life-changing opportunity regardless of their ability to pay, so we provide housing, food, stipends, laptops and a training on a learn-and-pay principle - later model We equip DecaDevs to land jobs at top companies and are proud of them for the 100% success rate and faithful repayment of their loans .
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"Decagon is currently recruiting exceptional young talent for the next cohort and companies looking to hire our graduates can contact us to apply."
One of the beneficiaries, Joshua Christopher, said the institute helped him achieve his dream in 2 years.
He noted, "Decagon has been a catalyst in achieving my career goals. What I would have achieved in 5 years, I was able to achieve in 2 short years."
Another beneficiary, Chidinma Ifeh, said: "After Decagon, I was placed in a technology company Terragon. I worked as a back-end engineer, I use Node stack. I wouldn't have been able to do this without Decagon."
Also at the event, management thanked the organization's staff members for believing in the company's many dreams and working to achieve them.
In attendance were Lumos global CFO Laurens Kreuze; Appzone co-founder Emeka Emetarom; representatives from Sterling Bank, Microsoft, Main One and other well-known figures in the African tech space.
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