How Thinkific hired 2 Senior Ruby on Rails Developers in 2 months

Thinkific is a fast growing online education startup from Vancouver, BC. They’re currently at 25 people and hiring about 1 person a week. They’ve been named Vancouver’s next Billion Dollar startup by Yahoo Finance and were select for the HyperGrowth program at the BC Technology Association. According to their CEO Greg Smith, finding VanHack has changed their entire product team quite a bit.

“We’ve gone from interviewing a small number of people and thinking that it’s not quite a fit, but we desperately need developers to interviewing a ton of people and having the ability to pick and choose.” 

They’ve even been able to find developers with experience in online education who have experience in their tech stack, which is Ruby on Rails and EmberJS.

Greg was initially reluctant about the visa process, but having read our Guide to Navigating the LMIA helped him with this. The Labour Market Impact Assessment processing can be greatly reduced if you follow the steps in the guide and set yourself up for success. At the end of the day, it’s all about growing the Canadian startup community and by bringing in senior talent Greg has been able to grow his business and open up even more job for local talent.On a whole bunch of fronts, it’s better for the entire community, say Greg. Learn more about how VanHack helped Thinkific hire 2 Senior Ruby on Rails Developers in 2 months in the video below:

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