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What Makes a Good Full-stack Developer With modern advancements in tech, for example with javascript, more and more developers are able to apply principles they are familiar with, throughout the rest of the stack. On Angel list alone, there are over 5400 startups currently looking for full-stack engineers. Every startup needs good full-stack developers, and […]

What is Growth Hacking? First…Growth Hacking, what is it? It’s not a technique, it’s not a secret strategy that some know and some don’t, it’s a person who uses rapid experimentation across multiple channels to see what’s sticking and what’s not. It’s the ability to collect, analyze, and react with an informed decision over and […]

So you’re a candidate on the market, and considering what company to call home next. You’ve probably had a variety of experiences throughout your career, each one a bit different than the last, and had your previous role been the perfect one for you, making a move right now might be an afterthought. But alas, […]

We’re so proud to be working with the 2016 CTA Innovation Entrepreneur Awards, Startup of the Year Award winner, RapidSOS. In helping to build the engineering team, we’re making our own contribution to solving one of the greatest problems facing our communities today: 9-1-1 and emergency-services technology.

After a 3 week hiatus from the TSR blog, the final instalment has arrived. I’ll preface it by saying that the story doesn’t end here. On the contrary, it’s another new beginning. As mentioned in the last entry, we’ve come to a point as a company where we must decide which road to take to […]

What does it mean to have success? Is it purely based on profits and losses? How about brand growth? And what about team development? I guess you could say we’ve been trying to determine the answer to that question since we got started. All we know at this point is that when we set goals, […]

We’re approaching present day life here at Synapse International. Only a few chapters remain. Possibly the most important ones of our short existence…. Seemingly out of nowhere, we came across a Series A funded startup in Houston, Texas, a city not well known for tech innovation, but rather for it’s deep roots in Big Oil.

We’d been very lucky to this point in our operation, where we were able to be completely successful without ever having to take on any clients in our own city. I mean Montreal is a great place to work and has a growing startup community, don’t get me wrong, but as recruiters, we have two […]

So, here we are. We made it to 2015. There were doubters, there were naysayers, there were those who didn’t believe. At times, we weren’t so sure we’d make it this far, either. But like I’ve been saying all along, hand work and perseverance have legitimate value in sales. The harder you push, the higher […]

Our second winter as recruiters was upon us. This time around, we had a plan. We weren’t hopeful, we were determined. We knew exactly the amount of effort it would take to produce the level of results we desired. We put in more hours, spoke to more people, sacrificed more nights and weekends than ever […]