Career events

On the last Thursday of November, we’ll wrap up this year by attending the ENTER_ZUKUNFT_IT career fair at Goethe University Frankfurt. Founded in 1914 as a “citizens' university” supported by the people of Frankfurt, the university now counts 16 faculties and hosts 41,568 students from 144 countries. Throughout its 110-year history, Goethe University has been proud to have 20 Nobel Prize Laureates.

Our team—Julia and Valerie from HR and Jonathan from Development—will be there to meet students and share information about career opportunities as a C++ Developer or C++ Intern. We’ll also have some tasty treats, fun prizes, and beach balls to add a bit of a relaxed atmosphere to the event’s chill-out area.

We look forward to meeting students and having conversations about what’s next. Hope to see you there!

At the end of November, the think-cell team will visit Ruhr University Bochum to take part in the IT.Connect company contact fair at the Faculty of Computer Science. We’re excited to be at the university for the first time – a place with more than 60 years of history and dedication to quality education!

Our team, including Software Engineer Jonathan, along with his colleagues Julia and Valerie from HR, looks forward to meeting students, sharing details about our C++ Developer opportunities, and discussing how a career at think-cell can be a great start for young professionals. Plus, we’ll have some fun prizes – from our popular green “L&R value” socks to charging cables and neck warmers, just in time for the chilly season.

If you’re a student who knows C++ and is eager to begin your career with a company where you can make a real impact, stop by our booth (Booth 15) to connect with us!

Core C++ is taking place over three days between the 26-28 of November in Tel Aviv, Israel this year. think-cell has been partnering with Core C++ over three years in the past, and this year we’re back as the video sponsors of the conference.

The Core C++ conference is a non-for-profit, community-based and community-facing event. It's organized by The Core C++ and Haifa::C++ user groups, and by enthusiasts from the local and global C++ community. The goal is to bring high quality content, great speakers and to promote software quality using the latest best practices, tools and languages features.

The program will be a mixture of beginner and advanced tracks, with a focus on learning and growth.

We’re happy to let you know that all videos from the conference can be watched on YouTube afterwards for free, so be sure to keep an eye out!

On November 21, 2024, we are returning to Stockholm to co-organize the SwedenCpp Community Meetup. After a great experience in 2017, we’re excited to reconnect with the Swedish C++ community.

This year, Senior Software Engineer Sebastian Theophil will deliver his talk, "Passive ARM Assembly Skills for Debugging, Optimization (and Hacking)." His session provides a practical introduction to ARM assembly, focusing on essential skills for debugging and optimizing applications on ARM machines, especially for those with x86 assembly experience.

The program also features a talk by Google Software Engineer Hans Wennborg titled “C++ Switch Statements Under the Hood in LLVM.” Here’s a sneak peek: Are switch statements more efficient than if-else chains? How do they get optimized? This deep dive into Clang/LLVM’s handling of the switch construct will answer these questions and more.

Our HR team members Julia and Anastasia will also be there to network with the community and share insights on what it’s like to work at think-cell as a C++ Developer.

For more details and to register, visit https://www.meetup.com/stockholmcpp/events/304293099.

This November, the ISO C++ committee will meet in Wroclaw, Poland. Our Software Engineer, Jonathan Müller, will be attending once again. He shares his expectations: “This will be the last opportunity to add major features to C++26 and is the second-to-last meeting before the general feature freeze in the spring. I expect a focus to be on reflection (hopefully adopting some of my changes from https://wg21.link/P3429), contracts, and the ongoing discussions about making C++ safer. I also really hope to see progress on pattern matching.”

We’re proud to be part of the standardization efforts and are looking forward to meeting in beautiful Wroclaw soon.

We’re excited to sponsor and attend Meeting C++, that’s taking place in Berlin (and online) between the 14^th and 16^th of November. Meeting C++ is a conference organized by the independent Meeting C++ platform, aimed at supporting the C++ community. think-cell has been partnering with Meeting C++ since 2012, and we’re delighted to continue our collaboration. This year, we are sponsoring the videos of the conference. Two of our speakers are also presenting their talks, and we’ll have a booth setup on-site.

Our Senior Software Engineer, Sebastian Theophil will present his talk “Classes C++23 style” where he’ll show the best C++23 practices to define common types of classes. The talk will cover the spaceship operator, conditionally explicit conversions, C++26 contracts, reference-qualified member functions, and deducing this. By starting from common use cases, the audience will learn not only how to use these C++ features, but also when to use them. 

Software Engineer Jonathan Müller is presenting “An (In-)Complete Guide to C++ Object Lifetimes”. The audience will learn about the rules for object creation and destruction, and when it is safe to form pointers and references to an object. They will also learn about advanced functions like std::launder, std::bit_cast, and std::start_lifetime_as.

Three members of our development team will be on-site at the conference to network with the C++ community, tell participants about our C++ Developer role, the engineering team’s ways of working, and answer any questions attendees may have.

If you’d like to watch the conference talks and learn more about in-depth C++ topics, head over to YouTube where all videos can be viewed.

Middle of November marks the next C++ Meetup that we organize for the community in Berlin. The event is for C++ engineers eager to explore the latest industry trends and techniques. It also offers a great networking opportunity before the Meeting C++ conference on November 14 in Berlin. We offer all a chance to connect with fellow engineers and industry experts over pizza and beer before the main event.

The agenda includes 2 talks delivered by the experts: Think Parallel by Bryce Adelstein Lelbach, Principal Architect at NVIDIA, and Express your expectations: A fast, compliant JSON pull parser for writing robust applications by our own Software Engineer Jonathan Müller.

The meetup will be held at Le Wagon, a vibrant and welcoming space perfect for our gathering. We would like to extend our gratitude to Le Wagon for their generous cooperation in hosting this event.

Seats are limited, so make sure to register on our Meetup event page to secure your spot as well as learn more about the talks and the speakers.

We look forward to an evening of technical deep dives and networking with fellow C++ engineers!

In the beginning of November, we will return to TU Munich to deliver our own C++ lecture to the computer science students. This lecture marks a new milestone in our partnership with TU Munich, where we have previously participated in the IKOM career fair and hosted our EAT++ lecture and Summer Parties.

TUM is the only technical university in Germany to continuously retain the University of Excellence status since 2006. Its Department of Computer Science is one of the largest teaching and research institutions for Informatics in the country.

In his talk, "A Deep Dive into Dispatching Techniques," Jonathan Müller, a think-cell Software Engineer, will discuss assembly, optimizations, and profiling with the students.

At the core of an interpreter is a loop that iterates over instructions and executes them in order. This requires dispatching: based on the current instruction, it needs to select different code. A fast interpreter requires a fast instruction dispatcher, but so does everything else that needs to switch over a fixed set of different options.

This talk investigates various dispatching techniques, from simple switch statements to jump tables. We'll look at performance analysis tools, benchmarks, and lots and lots of assembly code, in order to learn ways to trick the compiler into generating the assembly code that we actually want.

The students will primarily learn about efficient dispatching techniques and their relative performance, but also about profiling, benchmarks, and CPU features like instruction caches and branch predictors.

We look forward to sharing our expertise and strengthening our collaboration through this technical exchange.

This October, think-cell will return to RWTH Aachen for a special event – our very own workshop for Dean’s List students. The Dean's List recognizes the top five percent of students from each course of study, aiming to identify and continuously support outstanding students early on.

RWTH is known for its long-standing excellence in computer science education and research, ranked 50th globally and second among German universities by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023.

"Aspects of Professional Software Engineering," a specialized workshop by think-cell, will be led by Senior Software Engineer Sebastian Theophil. The workshop is limited to just 20 students, with registration on a first-come, first-served basis. During the workshop, we want to show the students aspects of software development that are rarely taught at university. The code we write — unlike the code that students write for their assignments — will be read and changed for years, if not decades. It must be easily understandable and ideally correct.

Our workshop will consist of two parts: in the first we want to show the students how to write good code. We have prepared a couple of example problems and exercises that the participants will solve. We will discuss the solutions and find out what constitutes a good and canonical solution. In the second part we will develop a complex feature. We will play the part of one of our customers and tell the participants about a problem we are having. Together they will develop a solution.

After the workshop, Sebastian and the students will continue networking over dinner, joined by Jonathan Müller, Software Engineer and RWTH Aachen Dean’s List alumnus, and Anastasia from our tech recruiting team, who will be there to answer any questions about working at think-cell.

We are excited about the opportunity to meet RWTH’s top students and collaborate on building solutions together. Aachen, here we come!

inovailmenau marks the first university event that think-cell will attend this autumn. As students return to classes, this career fair offers TU students the opportunity to define and pursue their career path through the fair’s activities and the presence of major companies.

TU Ilmenau offers 45 degree programs in the fields of computer science, mathematics and natural sciences, engineering, economics and media. Over the past 26 years, inovailmenau has established itself as one of the most important career forums in Central Germany, fully organized by a dedicated team of 50 students from various disciplines.

think-cell will be present at inovailmenau on October 22^nd, with our own booth where our team will meet with participants. We’ll also be hosting a raffle, ensuring that everyone we engage with has a chance to walk away with something memorable. We’re excited to connect with talented students and share the benefits of working at think-cell, including competitive salaries, flexible working hours, relocation support, and the opportunity to collaborate with an international team of experts.

This October, we are pleased to support the inaugural C++ Under the Sea conference, being held in Breda, Netherlands for the first time ever.

C++ Under the Sea is a fresh addition to the Netherlands' conference scene, featuring speakers from various industries sharing insights into C++. The event is an extension of the Dutch C++ meetup group, which has been hosting regular meetings at well-known venues since 2013 and now has nearly 1,700 members.

As a Gold sponsor, think-cell will have a booth at the conference to connect with C++ professionals. Our Software Engineer Jonathan Müller, alongside Julia and Anastasia from the tech recruiting team, will be there to talk about the latest in C++ and invite attendees to our C++ Meetup with Bryce Adelstein Lelbach in Berlin on November 13, 2024.

We are also proud to be the Video sponsor for the event, continuing our commitment to making C++ talks freely accessible for anyone interested.

We look forward to C++ Under the Sea and meeting both familiar and new faces in Breda. See you there!