How employee referrals for tech jobs became a side hustle


If employers are flooded with referrals for strangers, it's not clear how much the recommendations will actually help candidates. — Image by yanalya on Freepik

Copy, paste, refer. Over 18 months, that’s the simple process that helped one enterprising tech worker recommend more than a thousand job candidates to his employer.

His efforts produced more than half a dozen successful hires for the company and roughly US$30,000 (RM135,010) in employee referral bonuses for him. No one seemed to mind, or even realise, that nearly every person he endorsed was a complete stranger.

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