Russian e-pharm market: opportunities and prospects
Fresh analytics from Data Insight claims that in 2021 the volume
It is important to understand that the pandemic has become another driver that has accelerated the pace of development of distance trading, and e-pharm today is one of the fastest growing areas of online trading.
Naturally, market growth creates demandin the staff who work in e-pharm. Specialists are actively hunted from other areas. But the situation is complicated by the fact that many simply do not know how the tasks of a developer in e-pharm differ from e-commerce in general or its individual areas.
“The pandemic has become another driver that has accelerated the pace of development of distance selling”
Developer at e-pharm: who is it
Spoiler: there are no serious features in e-pharm. Absolutely any developer with the right technology stack, who is ready to learn new things and work in a team, can enter the sphere.
And now a little more.There are peculiarities in the development of applications for e-pharm. For example, strict requirements for the content and description of medicines, special labeling or the online sale of prescription drugs.
But properly configured workflowsallow you not to be tied to the experience of the developer specifically in e-pharm. After all, business tasks go through competent analytics, decomposed and broken down into smaller and more understandable tasks that any developer with relevant experience can handle.
You need to understand that e-pharm is a vast area,in which different technology stacks are used to solve different problems. In one project, they can simultaneously work with 1C: Enterprise, JavaScript, .Net, Go, JavaScript, Python, Php and other programming languages and frameworks.
The sphere is developing very actively, so weWe try to keep up with the times and use modern technologies and methodologies. You need to constantly rush for new products and monitor market trends in order to keep up with the industry as a whole. This also applies to developers - you have to study intensively, improve professional skills and adapt to tasks.
Tasks in e-pharm are very diverse. Even the development of a warehouse utility is not boring and monotonous writing of typical code.
Here is one example:visualization of the movement of employees in the warehouse. A very non-trivial and interesting task. But its solution allows you to more productively organize the storage of goods in a warehouse in order to spend less time picking orders.
“Even the development of a warehouse utility is not boring and monotonous writing of typical code”
The threshold of entry into e-pharm and how to develop as a specialist
E-pharm is a separate market segment, it combinesfeatures of e-commerce and the pharmaceutical market, but otherwise obeys the general rules of the game. And the developers there are absolutely the same as in other areas.
The entry threshold for e-pharm is low.There is a great demand for experienced professionals who speak specific languages and frameworks at a high level. But developers with up to a year of experience are also in demand. Now there is a trend that companies are increasingly hiring junior specialists who can be trained for specific tasks and functions.
The soft skills of the applicant and the beginner are given moreclose attention. After all, the problem is not to find a person with knowledge of a programming language. And that he harmoniously fits into the department, feels comfortable and works productively.
Sometimes non-standard interviews are launched,but in general everything is expected: processing the candidate’s resume, invitation to an interview with a recruiter. If the candidate meets the soft skills, he is invited to a technical interview. After all, for Junior and Middle specialists it is much more important that they fit harmoniously into the team than the depth of their technical knowledge and skills.
A beginner should get to work quickly,therefore, adaptation is given special attention. The specialist is given a week to get used to the new place. And in large companies, there is a practice when HR, together with the manager, support the employee for another month.
"E-pharm is a separate market segment, it combines the features of e-commerce and the pharmaceutical market"
The desire to develop in the profession is importantsoft skill. In e-pharm, you simply cannot learn one thing and then work for years without developing at all. You need to be prepared for the fact that you will have to pump skills every six months. And sometimes training goes on continuously along with the introduction of new technologies in production. But this is a big plus - after several years of experience in e-pharm, the way is open for a specialist in any direction of e-commerce development.
There are great prospects for internal growth.A person can come into a position with a certain technology stack and then outgrow it in a few years, because intensive training is not in vain. The horizontal and vertical growth of developers is faster than in other sectors of the IT industry.
E-pharm is a great industry for both starting in IT and developing as a programmer. You just need not be afraid to learn new things and constantly keep up with the development of the industry.
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