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> Funny factoid for you: Google hires those guys in Russia through recruiters and innocuously sounding shell companies in Saint Petersburg. > The guy can work
by jhanschoo 7y ago
> Funny factoid for you: Google hires those guys in Russia through recruiters and innocuously sounding shell companies in Saint Petersburg.
> The guy can work for the shell for years without realising that he works for Google.
Your comment makes this practice sound shady. I don't see how this practice is even probably shady, if the general thrust of you say is true.
First, you have to set up a different company for each country where you're doing business. Second, it's not a shell company if it hires employees or contractors and has clients. Finally, if the subsidiary doesn't engage in your primary business activity you don't call the subsidiary by a name similar to the primary company's name.
It's a very common corporation structure.
- baybal2 7y agoWell, at one point a recruiting company acting on their behalf tried recruiting me for an ops position. After seeing a few metre long NDA in perfect English, and Russian, and them being extremely tight lipped for whom and what for the job is, it was very clear to me that it was Google given that I knew that the recruiter is one of the few with whom Google works in Russia. I asked "Google?" It raised their eyebrows, but they said they can't answer that.
- austhrow743 7y agoThat's common recruiter behaviour. A lot of them are very afraid of being cut out of the deal.
- baybal2 7y agoThe point is, Google doesn't hire directly there. Officially, they have their Saint Petersburg office closed years ago, and it is "just 3rd party contractor companies" doing things for them there