“We have received requests on LinkedIn, emails and through job postings. Ex-Bytedance employees at Trell are also making referrals,” he added. He said that 50-plus offers have been accepted by impacted ByteDance employees so far.Aditya Kothari, co-founder and chief strategist at Chingari said his company will hire some of the potential talent. “We were expecting this for a long time since the government imposed a ban,” he added.Ashish Sanganeria, senior partner, Transearch said ByteDance employees are likely to find jobs with TikTok lookalikes; while digital talent would also be hired by startups and technology companies. “The market is opening up, startups are getting funding, others are hiring,” he said.Technology majors such as Twitter and Facebook’s photo and video sharing app Instagram declined to comment on the matter.

Source: Economic Times January 29, 2021 09:45 UTC