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5 Mistakes We Made While Growing A Startup In Southeast Asia

YoungUpstarts

As the company’s Commercial Manager, Hortensius was armed with the responsibility of setting up the office’s headquarters in Kuala Lumpur as well as growing the local team. The typical probationary period in Southeast Asia is usually three to six months with a three day notice period should the employee decide to terminate the contract.

Asia 100
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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet.

Java 107
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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application. Heres the source code,” make sure you finish with something like, “For completion of this project, please have this up and running on a development webserver I can access to test its functionality as described.” The requirements are as follows.”