The company waived or offered to donate the placement fees for Ukrainian hires to charities and had 226 companies in less than two weeks that were interested in learning how they could bring in Ukrainian tech workers and at least a dozen doing interviews.
VanHack, which helped two Ukrainian workers find jobs in Canada in the days leading up to the Russian invasion, was not the only company with its eye on Ukrainian tech workers. "It's definitely talent that we need here. We're in a huge talent shortage right now," said Guillaume Bazinet, chief executive of FX Innovation in Montreal.
"In the U.S. alone, there are more than one million open positions for software developers. In Canada, we have 1.3 million developers, and we have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of openings," said AlayaCare's senior vice-president of engineering Jean-Francois Gailleur. "It's more about trying to help those people, if we can help them, and getting them a better life," he said.
We are pumping kids out of college and university tech programs, many of them end up under-employed and/or not employed in their field, yet the 'we need foreign talent' myth continues and companies engage in petty disaster capitalism by jumping on this kind of opportunity. 🤮
Are you serious? May be they are the ones financing the war to destroy Ukraine.
Eye local talent first
There is no ill wind that doesn't blow somebody good
No we should help them but also help them be able to go home after the war. We are not Americans who profit from others pain! Ukraine is our brother we will help them build back better.
God bless Russia and Putin
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