The\u00a0\u201cbench\u201d is one of SoDA\u2019s activities most appreciated by\u00a0member companies. This term, well known among developers, comes from the sports bench, where players sit when they are not playing. Similarly, the SoDAs bench stands for a\u00a0situation when one employee is waiting for the task, and another company can \u201cborrow\u201d him for a\u00a0specific project\/order.<\/p>\n
When the software house needs to borrow or lend a developer\u2019s time, it can announce it on special Slack channels \u2014 bench_ask and bench_own. Since the SoDA beginning, users have exchanged as many as 7,000 messages with each other there!<\/p>\n