In just a couple of decades, BGL has grown to become one of the UK’s largest consumer insurance groups and expanded into other financial services. BGL strives to make a difference for our customers, partners, colleagues and communities.
Each of our brands, including comparethemarket.com, has its own unique heritage and personality, but all align to one common proposition; to provide outstanding levels of service, that help customers make the most of their money.
Comparethemarket.com launched in 2006 and over the past 10 years has grown over the past 10 years to become the UK’s leading price comparison website. It provides customers with an easy way to find the best value on a wide range of products from motor, home, life, travel and pet insurance to utilities and money products. To find out what it’s like to work at BGL, and to view current vacancies visit https://jobs.bglgroup.co.uk/
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App Garage - Design Clinic
Featuring Sebastiano Poggi
Skills Matter has partnered with Novoda to organise the App Garage - Design Clinic at droidcon London 2016!
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#droidconUK party starts at #CodeNode!
As #droidconUK finishes at the BDC, Routemaster red Buses will take you to #CodeNode, Skills Matter's home. Alternatively, you can catch the Northern Line from Angel and get off at Moorgate (just 2 stops away!). #CodeNode is 5-minute walk from Moorgate Tube Station.
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App Garage - Performance Clinic
Featuring Josh Diehl and Junfeng Yang
Skills Matter has partnered with NimbleDroid to organise the App Garage - Performance Clinic at droidcon London 2016!
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App Garage Clinics Presentation
Want to have your app reviewed by renowned experts in the Android community? Eager to improve the performance of your app? Concerned about your app's design? Skills Matter has got it covered for you!
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Keeping it Clean
Featuring Rich King
Over the last year there has been a lot of buzz about Clean Architecture in the Android community, but what is Clean Architecture? How does it work? And should I be using it? Recently at Badoo we decided to rewrite our messenger component and release it as an open source component (Chateau). Over...
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Lightning Talks 2
Featuring Darryl Bayliss, Paco Estevez and Andrew Lord
This session will consist of three 15-minute talks by Andrew Lord, Francisco Estevez, and Darryl Bayliss on Lambda expressions, Lib, and iOS.
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Making Retrofit 2 Work For You
Featuring Jake Wharton
Retrofit's recently-released version 2 is the easiest way to do HTTP in your applications. Once set up, Retrofit is designed to make declaring endpoints as simple as a method on an interface with annotations. Behind that simplicity, though, there is a lot of power and knowing how to use and...
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Why developers need to get involved in AR & See-Through Smart Eyewear NOW! And how they can get started
Featuring Giles Beaumont and Marc-Antoine Godfroid
Augmented Reality in combination with transparent smart eyewear is fast becoming the most exciting revolution in the computing industry. This pioneering technology enables digital content to be freed from the restrictions of screen based hand held devices, opening up endless applications in all...
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