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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

New emerging technologies have been the key catalyst for in-demand jobs. Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry. These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. Job sites such as BCjobs.ca

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Global Demand. As China, Brazil and India prosper, their increasingly wealthy populations demand more high-end products – a trend that favors the innovation industry. For example, workers in Europe have fewer incentives than workers in the United States to work hard. Advancement takes considerably longer, as does demotion.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. Again, much red tape even though David grew up in the US (he had since moved to Europe and married a wonderful woman from Romania). We then moved our Chief Software Architect over. Felipe grew up in Brazil. More red tape.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

We determine a salary cap with the founder based on a software engineer in the closest major city. We have invested using demand dividends (such as here ), redeemable shares (such as here / here ), revenue-share investing, and conventional debt/mezzanine structures. Region: Global with focus on Europe and US .

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Out of the Crisis #6, helpwithcovid.com

Startup Lessons Learned

29:15) Skills in demand, including design, software engineers, and people to vet volunteers and projects. (32:23) He was an immigrant from Romania, a software engineer, came to the Bay Area, did Y Combinator, started a company, sold it, made connections, and became part of this ecosystem. I was in Eastern Europe.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. NOTE: Software engineers are engineers, “programmers” are what you use to control the central heating. Really skillful software engineers do not use.NET. And their open software engineer positions reflect that. Elaine Kenny.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

For some time now, it has been possible to outsource engineering labor to other countries. There are plenty of companies poised to serve your needs in Bangalore, the Philippines, and across Eastern Europe. They’re low cost and capable of delivering specific — but mostly basic — engineering services.