What’s the difference between a Site Reliability Engineer vs a DevOps Engineer?

By / 4 minutes of reading / For Candidates, For Companies, VanHack

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. …

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VanHack’s Statement on the Executive Order issued by US President Donald J. Trump suspending the entry of certain categories of legal immigrants

By / 2 minutes of reading / For Candidates, For Companies

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 …

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Success Case: Sakshi’s Journey from India to Canada

By / 3 minutes of reading / For Candidates, Success Stories

Sakshi and her husband moved to Canada last month. Her amazing story tells us the importance of never giving up – and always dreaming big. She applied for more than 500 jobs before finding success! Here’s her story, in her own inspiring words. Congratulations Sakshi! My Success Mantra The secret is the law of attraction! …

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How AON3D Hired a Senior NodeJS Developer from VanHack

By / 2 minutes of reading / For Candidates, For Companies, Success Stories

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 …

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Success Case: How Bruno got hired as a Head of Engineering in Germany

By / 3 minutes of reading / For Candidates, For Companies, Success Stories

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 …

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What is a Labour Market Benefits Plan (LMBP)? VanHack answers your questions!

By / 4 minutes of reading / For Companies

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 …

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Success Case: How Vinicius got hired as a .NET developer in Montreal

By / 3 minutes of reading / For Candidates, Success Stories

I applied for a couple of jobs before the help of VanHack and I didn’t get the jobs. And then with VanHack on my first interview I went through and I’m here now. VanHack did help us on getting hired abroad. Now my wife is really happy here. We’re happy in Canada and it’s a …

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What I learned while Implementing a Microservices Architecture for a Startup

By / 5 minutes of reading / DevTalk, For Companies

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 …

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Is jQuery Dying in 2020?

By / 4 minutes of reading / DevTalk, For Companies

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. …

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Tackling UI complexity with State Machines

By / 6 minutes of reading / For Candidates, For Companies, VanHack

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 …

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How to pay remote workers – your questions answered

By / 3 minutes of reading / For Companies, VanHack

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 …

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Relocating to Canada during COVID-19!

By / 2 minutes of reading / For Candidates, For Companies, Success Stories

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 …

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How to create an amazing VanHack Profile

By / 1 minute of reading / For Candidates

Have you started to create your VanHack profile and stopped mid-way through? Or perhaps you have created your profile, but you’re not happy with how it looks. We’ve heard your feedback and have created the Ultimate Guide to Crafting a Successful VanHack Profile! Download it by clicking the image below. If you have any questions, …

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A Free Guide to Remote Hiring and Onboarding

By / 1 minute of reading / For Companies, VanHack

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 …

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Success Story: How Ramiro got a job in Montreal

By / 4 minutes of reading / For Candidates, Success Stories, VanHack

Ramiro Rincon moved from Colombia to Montreal, and has a great story to share. Finding a job abroad requires dedication and hard work, and Ramiro’s story exemplifies this. Over to you, Ramiro. Ramiro’s Story I’ve been always willing to live in other places since I was little, but I also knew that in order to …

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