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Beware of Fake / Scam Engineering Candidates

K9 Ventures

The demand for software engineers continues to exceed the supply by several orders of magnitude. Software Engineers also tend to command a much higher salary. Recruiting engineers is hard enough, but having to deal with fake/scam candidates makes it that much harder. Yes, you read that correctly.

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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. By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! When he had finished the program the US wanted more doctors due to the Vietnam War.

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Entrepreneur Helping Business Owners Ease Their Inventory Management Process Through Innovative Software

Hearpreneur

It will have been something from the late Steve Jobs: “We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.” It’s about setting up my software development centre from scratch in Vietnam. Young, talented software engineers and testers can be hired for very competitive wages there.