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Everyone who has ever done recruiting in a french IT company noticed that 80 to 90% of the resumes you receive come from North African countries (old colonies, mainly Algeria and Tunisia), that try to get a job in order to get a Visa. Most of them are unqualified, but they just "go for it".

Now, is this initiative going to lead to most of them pretending to want to start a company ? And how is the program going to filter qualified individuals to opportunists ?



There are only 70 start-up incubator visas available, so I assume competition is exceptionally fierce.

This aside, for the engineer visas, it requires getting a job offer from one of the "100+ leading French Start-Ups", which means you presumably have to pass whatever requirements those hiring managers impose on you as well.


Ok, thanks for the info. For the engineer visas, I thought that obtaining a Visa once a company has agreed to hire you was already possible. So what's the difference with this program, in the "engineer" case ?




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