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10 years of Gulenko.com Recruitment
10 years of Gulenko.com Recruitment: We placed hundreds of talents into tech jobs in the Zurich region. In 2015, I landed my first traditional job in Switzerland as a Python engineer at Polynorm—a company that would later become one of…
Hiring a Lead Engineer for a Cybersecurity Startup
I advise candidates to use the STAR method when talking about their past achievements, so I’ll do the same. This case illustrates how we achieved another successful placement, even for hard, lead roles: A cybersecurity startup with an innovative monitoring…
hiring an NLP Researcher for Swiss Legal Tech Startup
We needed to fill a highly specialized role for a small Swiss legal tech startup, requiring a candidate skilled in both Natural Language Processing (NLP) research and Python programming. The challenge was finding someone who excelled in both academia and…
Five bad incentives recruiters have and what job seekers can do about it
When there is big money involved and little chance of getting caught, people do immoral things. As a recruiter, you are often faced with such a dilemma. In over five years in this business, I wasn’t honest or ethical all…
As a web developer, should you switch to a more niche field?
Taken from mixpanel In my day job in technical recruitment I talk to dozens of tech firms and hundreds of software engineers every week. Some developers think the web domain is crowded with too many developers and that salaries will go…
Why software engineers don’t get jobs: Four horror stories
Recruiting is messier than you think. I tell three stories where great engineers were rejected for reasons that had nothing to do with their engineering performance or cultural-fit. Read this story with nicer formatting on medium.com. I run a technical recruitment…
Five years after moving to Switzerland. Why I am still here
When I came to Zurich in 2014 to work as a Python and Javascript developer I believed to only stay 2–3 years maximum and then leave to the US. After I wrote “Nine reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in…
Switzerland: How buying real-estate can kill you financially and two reasons to go for stocks instead
Houses are bad investments due to foreign millionaires inflating real-estate for the rest of us. Stocks are better: There is zero tax on capital gain and an interesting estate tax treaty with the US, so one can buy cheap ETFs.…