This blog post is very special for VanHack. Our colleague Juliana recently switched careers within VanHack. She went from a customer success role to joining the VanHack tech team as a front-end developer. Juliana has no prior experience as a developer. She didn’t have a formal degree in software engineering or a related discipline. What …
Juliana’s Story: Changing Careers to become a Developer Read More »
You may be an ultra-focused entrepreneur who has struck a winning startup idea, but you probably don’t have a broad enough skill set to cover all scenarios. In today’s increasingly tech-driven business world, having a robust developer team is critical. This is particularly true if you lack the programming capabilities or have sufficient time to …
Hiring Your First Developers: A Guide for Startups Read More »
I make a few assumptions with this article; that you are already sold on the idea of The Lean Startup; that you believe in building The Minimum Viable Product (MVP) as a way of bringing products (or major features) to the market, and maybe you have even read the book The Lean Startup by Eric …
10+ Product Launch Checklist Items for Companies with Startup Cultures Read More »
DevOps and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) are two developer software ideas that on paper may seem similar. Yet while both titles work much the same way, there are some key differences worth knowing about. As DevOps and SRE aim to streamline and connect an operations team with development, choosing between the two is tricky. …
What’s the difference between a Site Reliability Engineer vs a DevOps Engineer? Read More »
VanHack was founded on two principles: “Code has no accent”, and “The Internet knows no borders”. The belief that every person – no matter where they are in the world – deserves the chance to lead the best possible life that they can is deeply embedded in VanHack’s culture. Every day for the past five …
Working with VanHack, I was pretty amazed that out of the gate we had people with 15 plus years of experience. I would say that a good 60-80% of our candidates were phenomenal! Nicholas Nadeau, Engineering Manager, AON3D Q. Hi! Tell us a little bit about yourself and AON3D I’m Nicholas Nadeau, I’m the engineering …
How AON3D Hired a Senior NodeJS Developer from VanHack Read More »
With VanHack, I completed my profile and in less than a week, I started doing interviews. I think I did around four, if I’m not mistaken with VanHack. Then right off, one of them was already the job offer. I think from starting to the end was around one month Q. Tell us a little …
Success Case: How Bruno got hired as a Head of Engineering in Germany Read More »
What is a Labour Market Benefits Plan? When a company uses the Global Talent Stream to hire someone from outside of Canada, Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) wants to ensure that the Canadian labour market is not negatively affected. To do that, they ask that companies commit to activities that will have lasting, positive …
What is a Labour Market Benefits Plan (LMBP)? VanHack answers your questions! Read More »
This is the third in a series of technical blog posts contributed by VanHackers. Today’s post is by Olutunde M. Olutunde started his career as a Business/Technical Analyst for school software projects in 2009. He has now worked on 50+ projects; some used by as many as twenty-two banks in Nigeria. He has trained hundreds …
What I learned while Implementing a Microservices Architecture for a Startup Read More »
This is the second in a series of technical blog posts contributed by VanHackers. Today’s post is by Lucas C. Lucas is a Front-End developer with over 10 years of experience managing teams and programming complex applications. He has been consistently recognized for performance and being proactive. His strengths lie in leadership and logical programming. …
This is the first in a series of technical blog posts contributed by VanHackers. Today’s post is by Carlos G. Carlos is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of professional experience developing web applications for local and international companies. He’s worked with React, JavaScript, Electron, NodeJS, and Golang among other technologies for developing web …
As companies start to look into Remote Hiring, there’s one question that frequently comes up – how do I pay a remote employee? You may think it’s as easy as “Make an international bank transfer”.. but there’s a bit more to it than that. Let’s look at the various aspects you need to consider when …
How to pay remote workers – your questions answered Read More »
VanHacker Camilo Barreto recently moved to Vancouver from Colombia after getting a job through VanHack. Moving to a new country takes some effort at the best of times. Camilo and his family were undeterred though, as they knew this was the culmination of something they had been working towards for a long time. The flights …
We’ve created a guide to help you kick-start your Remote Hiring processes. This is based on 5+ years of operating as a fully-remote company, as well as our experience helping over 800 candidates get jobs in Canada and the EU. Most of the candidates were interviewed and hired entirely remotely. Here’s what we cover VanHack’s …
Cutting costs. These two words often mean reducing performance or sacrificing features – but it doesn’t have to be that way! If managed correctly, a crisis can be an opportunity to drive change , and the results can be startling – in a good way! This is the story of how VanHack’s tech team managed …
Saving money AND increasing Performance – Optimizing VanHack’s Cloud Computing costs Read More »
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