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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

The tech job landscape across Canada has continued to grow. In 2018, Canada had a record-low unemployment rate and as a result we are seeing more companies, startups and online-based businesses dedicated to serving the niche-jobs industry. Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry.

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

Both Sides of the Table

TWTFelipe and I ended up speaking for nearly 30 minutes and we talked mostly about why his company was based in Canada and not the US. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. He spent a bunch of this time in Canada. So he decided to start his company in Canada.

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Bad returns be damned: Venture capital fundraising jumps 31 percent in U.S

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Software Developer. Senior Software Engineer - Web-based Applications. at Tableau Software. Front-end UI Software Engineer. Manager, Test Engineering (Performance Team). at Tableau Software. Chris DeVore is going to Canada… …for GROW Conference. Daily email digest.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). PlentyOfFish has 11 million registered users, is the #1 dating site in the UK and Canada and the #2 in the US by audience share. Many of you have heard of PlentyOfFish.

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

Women engineers make up only 14% of software engineers; she is dedicated to getting more women into the tech industry. She drives Hired’s diversity and inclusion strategy, and ensures it’s aligned to business goals by partnering with business leaders, employee networks and strategic stakeholders.

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One of the Most Time Consuming Startup Roadblocks

Software By Rob

Time spent: 10 minutes Time saved: 2 hours, 50 minutes I just received from a woman named Amy who lives in Canada. This ties back into a topic I’ve spoken about previously: when it comes to your product should you build it, buy it or hire it out? I wrote up an email and the task will be done in the next day or two.

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

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They also want to avoid hiring extra resources that increase the cost of the finished goods unless absolutely necessary. Green, York University, Toronto, Canada. Do we honestly believe that the CEO of EA is happy that people are in the office 24/7 working their asses off? Prosperity Covenant , Tom Walker. He lives in Vancouver, BC.