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Ask HN: Is it possible to get hired as an African software engineer

3•vixalien•1h ago
I know the job marker is pretty rough these days, but still, I'm wondering.

Is it possible for a western company to hire me, as an African, perhaps remotely?

I have been lured by websites like Mercor, etc... offering nice remote work, but I figured out that they mostly wanted my data.

Is it possible for me to get hired at all or should I just try entrepreneurship and mainly focus on copying ideas that worked in the western world for the African market?

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thesuperbigfrog•1h ago
Canonical (the company that makes Ubuntu Linux) has remote software engineer jobs:

https://canonical.com/careers/6707824

Their hiring process is a bit strange compared to other tech companies.

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