Silo Team is tackling the problem of the high turnover rate among developers, which is one of the highest in the world and costs companies billions of dollars annually. With the recent economic downturn, it has never been a better time to start retaining top talent, and developers are arguably businesses' most important and costly assets.
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With over +350 tech teams interviewed around the world, we discovered that there are several reasons for why the turnover rate is among the highest, everything from company culture to understanding tech stack and tools. Basically there are significant challenges throughout the entire lifecycle of a developer.

Larger organisations with more developers and new hires face even greater challenges. This has led to engineering leaders seeking a new way to speed up the process and increase dev-productivity/output.

We are building the go-to tool for retaining developers, and it starts by attacking the most urgent pain points first.

a) Getting started: A streamlined technical onboarding that really shortens the time to productivity. 💻

b) Understand: An AI-powered knowledge hub that revolutionises technical knowledge sharing. 🧠

c) Depart: And a secure and fast offboarding. 🔒
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The essence of Silo Team lies in its platform and AI engine that integrates with an organisation's entire suite of developer apps, such as Jira or GitHub. Automatically keeping knowledge up-to-date. When developers need information, they simply ask the Silo Team assistant in plain language, where do I find  X or Y or who is responsible for Z.

First of all, there is a strong correlation between onboarding and retention. If the onboarding process goes well the likelihood of them staying increases by a lot. The retention part of our product focuses on identifying patterns or trends that have a negative effect. And by analysing these trends on a 'role level', we can suggest improvements to stakeholders on factors that directly contribute to developer retention before it's too late.

For example, let’s say that there is a stakeholder that takes a very long time before responding during a technical onboarding or that there is a developer that spends a lot of time within one particular tool. These are actually situations that not only block the rest of the tech team but also have a negative impact on retention in the sense that we have a new member that’s being hindered from getting code ready.

We can detect these situations before they even happen and support both the new developer and the already super busy stakeholders’ to answer questions like “where do I find this information” or “who is responsible for this”.