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Launch HN: Manara (YC W21) – Connect Middle East engineers with global companies

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Re: Launch HN: Manara (YC W21) – Connect Middle East engineers with global companies

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Post by rebyn »

Jugurtha wrote: post #20
laila90 wrote: post #6

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Hi! Ahlan! Azul! Really appreciate your bringing these issues up. Regarding payments, this has been coming up and we’ll need to pick your brain as we develop solutions. For now we are managing payments for companies that hire remotely by wire transferring the funds ourselves. In other words, the companies send the money to our US entity and then we do the transfer. We’ve also been looking at https://pilot.co/ https:/…

> Regarding payments, this has been coming up and we’ll need to pick your brain as we develop solutions. My contact information is in my profile. I'll forward to some people I know who had several problems with that. The last one I talked with worked with a company in the U.K. with the restriction the "worker" had to have a bank account in their country of residence, not in any other country. Explanations on exchange…

I appreciate these public comments on logistics issues like exchange rate and the sharing of service providers very much. As a freelancer in Viet Nam, this came up multiple times whilst I started out and even though my rate delta was only about 20-25%, that was already something.

Best of luck to you two.

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Post by golemiprague »

ilianam wrote: post #57
golemiprague wrote: post #43

It seems like there is correlation between patriarchal societies and having more women developers. I wonder why, maybe because anyway the society is patriarchal so there is not much difference between this field to others unlike in the west where all misogynist white males concentrate in this profession and all the good guys go to law or acting or wherever there are many women and everything is equal and rosy. But th…

Hi! What other societies have you seen with a high percentage of women developers?

India, Israel, Russia basically anything that is not "west" but has some tech culture. They are still a minority but seems to do better. This is just my impression not some study but I think it is actually true. I am a bit sarcastic there and I got some ideas why it happens like that but serious discussion is useless since it became a political issue rather than something you can discuss openly, hence the sarcasm.

Re: Launch HN: Manara (YC W21) – Connect Middle East engineers with global companies

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Post by square_usual »

amasad wrote: post #11

At Repl.it, we interviewed interns via Manara and was mind-blown by the quality. We've given offers to two and I know at least one will be joining us soon. I think Manara has a potential to transform the global developer market. Very excited for them!

Is repl.it hiring outside NA time zones? I checked the postings a while ago, and all of them specified PST +- 3 IIRC.

Re: Launch HN: Manara (YC W21) – Connect Middle East engineers with global companies

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Post by ilianam »

frostburg wrote: post #60
ilianam wrote: post #54

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They (the co-founder Francesco Patarnello to be precise) were really wonderful to speak with & work with. They seem to have done a lot to grow the entrepreneurship & developer ecosystem in Italy, and are growing fast enough to need to hire from abroad now. They also have a really high bar for who they hire. Their process starts off with a logic test (nothing related to coding) which takes more than a day to complete.…

Regarding the logic test: here it's not common at all (especially outside of programming roles, it could be argued that most programming questions are logic tests), but apparently there are recruiting firms that employ them along with other even more dubious tools like psychometric questions to gauge the ability work in teams. Italy isn't a major source of software engineering positions and has systemic issues with c…

Interesting. I didn't think of it this way previously, but after hearing your description, I'll interpret it a positive sign of their culture / forward-thinkingness.

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Post by amasad »

square_usual wrote: post #63
amasad wrote: post #11

At Repl.it, we interviewed interns via Manara and was mind-blown by the quality. We've given offers to two and I know at least one will be joining us soon. I think Manara has a potential to transform the global developer market. Very excited for them!

Is repl.it hiring outside NA time zones? I checked the postings a while ago, and all of them specified PST +- 3 IIRC.

We're starting to! We have people outside and as long as they overlap for 3-4 hours we should be okay. Will make it official soon.

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Post by salsheikh »

Just wanted to chime in to share that the original post is great but doesn't do enough justice to the talent. I've been working as an engineer in the Bay Area for 3+ years and found Manara about a year ago. During that time, I've closely mentored 6 engineers and mock interviewed several more. I think nearly every end-of-program mock interview I've given to Manara students are a "Hire" with questions of similar difficulty to those used at the big tech company I work for. Having gotten to know them very well now, it's clear to me that these really are a selection of the best engineers in the region (e.g. top performers in competitive programming competitions, hackers with more side projects than university projects, etc).

P.S. Also worth mentioning that this is some of the most exciting volunteer work I've done...it's a small part of what I do each week but it keeps me disproportionately energized even throughout the rest of my week!

Re: Launch HN: Manara (YC W21) – Connect Middle East engineers with global companies

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Post by square_usual »

amasad wrote: post #65
square_usual wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is repl.it hiring outside NA time zones? I checked the postings a while ago, and all of them specified PST +- 3 IIRC.

We're starting to! We have people outside and as long as they overlap for 3-4 hours we should be okay. Will make it official soon.

Damn, that's great! Unfortunately, I don't think IST would overlap, so I guess I'm still out of luck.

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Post by langitbiru »

So in the past I read something similar. It's similar business but for Africa: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/23/connecting-african-softwar...

Then something similar showed up again. But this time the business is for Europe, Asia and Latin America: https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/23/youteam/

Then I joked with my friend: "Maybe you should build something similar but for South-East Asia." (We live in SEA.)

Then the similar business showed up again today but for Middle East and North America. So I guess it's about time when something similar shows up but for SEA (or other parts of the world). :)

Re: Launch HN: Manara (YC W21) – Connect Middle East engineers with global companies

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Post by riffraff »

ilianam wrote: post #47
frostburg wrote: post #44

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At least in Italy everyone would just think of the illustrator.

Oh man that's too bad! We have one partner in Italy so far (Bending Spoons) and they didn't mention this to us though... maybe that's a good sign, or maybe they were too embarrassed!

I am italian, and I wouldn't worry too much.

It is true that the artist is very famous and has even done some tech-related work in the past (I think he designed boxes for GPUs or modems, I forgot), but it's not like you risk being confused.

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