INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Arc, a platform that wants to simplify the process of hiring developers who work remotely, is launching officially today
The new company grew out of Techstars-backed Codementor, an online education platform for software developers
Codementor will continue to operate as a standalone product under Arc.While there are already many freelancing platforms, Weiting Liu, the
founder and CEO of Arc and Codementor, said Arc is more focused on long-term contractor and full-time employee positions instead of
To make the recruitment process easier for tech companies, all developers on its platform are vetted by Arc in a process modeled on the
hiring assessments used by tech companies in Silicon Valley
instructors around the world for coding education
Codementor had hundreds of thousands of developers in the community already and that created a very strong and inclusive community to help
benefits like increasing the talent pool for tech companies while helping employees maintain work-life balance or avoid moving to high
But while it has become much more easier to work remotely over the past decade, hiring people who live far away still presents a lot of
for short-term contracts, but we want to enable more companies to hire long-term, full-time regular employees who are not based in their ZIP
code, but should be treated no differently than their Bay Area counterparts because they are as good, if not better, than Silicon Valley
worked for Google, Facebook and other big tech companies
In order to judge how well they will work with a team in another location, Arc also asks developers to prepare programming during the
interview process to simulate the process of collaborating remotely.As Arc grows larger, Liu says it will build tools that will help them
gauge developers at scale, as well as features to companies manage remote workers.California recently passed a significant new bill that, if
signed into law, would dramatically change the gig economy by requiring companies to give independent contractors who do the work of
but most are freelancing work
I think the second phase means there is increasingly higher trust and better infrastructure to enable long-term, permanent full-time work to
