Solita Academy

When there’s an application period open for an Academy you can find the job post on our Careers -page

In Finland we try to arrange Academies twice a year. In our other locations (Sweden, Estonia, Belgium, Germany and Denmark) our community is still quite a bit smaller and thus we are arranging Academies based on our upcoming needs.

When you get a position in Solita Academy, you are a Solita employee from day one. You get a permanent employment contract and full salary, as well as access to Solita’s comprehensive employee benefits.

This depends on the particular Academy. In Finland we have been taking in 15-20 Academians per Academy, whereas Academies in our other locations have been taking in smaller groups of 3-6 Academians.

This is decided individually for each Academy. Before 2020 all Academies were fully onsite, usually held in one of our bigger offices e.g. in Finland either in Tampere or in Helsinki, and in Sweden we do Academies currently fully onsite. We have had full remote Academies too, as well as a combination of both where most of the hands-on workshops have been onsite, but some sessions have been remote.

During the Academy period the participants are expected to be able to work full-time. There are many full day sessions and workshops and the onboarding time is quite intensive.

However after the Academy we can then make a part-time employment contract if you wish so.

Since the roles in the Academies vary, also the recruitment process varies depending on the profile we’re looking for. In addition to more traditional recruitment interviews, Academy recruitment can include a coding pre-assignment, a video interview or an aptitude test or some combination of these. E.g. in Dev Academy we have a pre-assignment for all the candidates whereas the Data Academy process includes a video interview and sometimes also an aptitude test.

Our official company language is English and currently most Academies are held in English. In Sweden the Academians are also required to speak Swedish. The when moving on to the customer work after the Academy, some of our customer projects might have some language requirements e.g. Finnish. But we do have plenty of customer work where the working language is English.

You should have some knowledge and know-how in the area you are interested in. For example if you apply to Dev Academy, we assume you have a good base of knowledge about some programming languages and software development practices.

There’s no age limit in the Academy, nor do we only consider people who are graduating soon. We see diversity as a strength; be it age, skills, nationality, beliefs, gender or sexual orientation. The same goes for educational background and work experience: having a diverse group of people in the Academy enables Academians to learn from each other.

Solita has professionals with very different backgrounds. Relevant knowledge and skills can be gained through work experience in the field, traditional education like university of polytechnic degree or through self-learning, hobby projects and e.g. volunteer activities like open source contributions. As long as you meet the competence level, it doesn’t matter how you have acquired the skills.

Approximately 5 weeks after which you will move on to a customer project.

The salaries are negotiated individually with each candidate. Hence we don’t have an exact salary range for our candidates. We always take into consideration candidates’ skills, competencies and experience, and make sure that the salaries are in line with our existing employees’ salaries as well. The salary is discussed in the interviews.

Unfortunately no. We expect all participants to live in the country where the specific Academy is taking place and have the possibility to attend the onsite training sessions. Please also note that we are not able to offer relocation packages at the moment.