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They and specially their recruiter Juana Cervio mistreat and humilliate professionals. Juana Cervio acts like a high school mean girl with people who is searching for a job, AND mixes web ideological conflicts with professional matters.

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Most of the reviews here as from the POV of candidates. My experience as a recruiter was less than ideal. tl:dr; I think that Strider team means well, but at the moment it's just a glorified Upwork that pushes subpar candidates down your throat at crazy fees. Strider is ok for startups looking to build prototypes, but does not cater to serious orgs that want to scale high quality teams. ---- I tried Strider because we are building a team in Sao Paulo and someone I know said they have good coverage in Brazil. Unfortunately, unlike other recruiters, they force you pay exorbitant $2k+/month fees per candidate on top of candidate salaries justified as "value add services" like computer rental and payroll. If you are experienced operating in other countries, you know that you can simply pay people with Deel (which is what Strider also does based on reviews below) and getting a computer is not an issue (you can order it from Mercado Libre). But they insist these services are valuable enough to justify the cost, go figure. If you want to buy out a candidate, the fee is an insane 40% (on top of the monthly fees that are 20%+ per year already!). We tried to negotiate with them to something more reasonable but they insisted we need to hire at least 5 candidates within 12 months to qualify for lower fees (without any guarantees of candidate quality). They also want to force you to use their own interview process (meaning they do the interviews) which incentivizes placing low quality candidates without proper vetting. They believe they can place people within 2 weeks, which is laughable if you want to maintain high quality bar. When I pushed back and said we want to use our own process, their sales rep Gexan started to get belligerent, claiming that our policies are inadequate and that we should do some "reflection". Without any proper notice or explanation Gexan also shut down our access to their Slack channel and we never heard back from them ever again. It was extremely bizarre. I never experienced anything like this from any other recruiter being 10+ years in tech. If you want to quickly hire candidates for simple projects without any proper vetting, Strider is probably a good choice for short-term stints (but more expensive than Upwork). If you want to staff a proper team and find high quality candidates for the long run, I recommend partnering with one of the many recruiters out there that specialize in Latam. If you still decide to try Strider, do so at your own risk and supplement their pipeline with other options.