Software giant seeking to hire 500 people dangles perk: Fridays off

Avanade, a tech firm jointly owned by Accenture and Microsoft, has opened its first U.S. location and plans to hire scores of software engineers over the next three years.

Josh Fink has been tapped to lead Avanade's new Tampa Bay software engineering hub. (Courtesy photo)
Josh Fink has been tapped to lead Avanade's new Tampa Bay software engineering hub. (Courtesy photo)
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Avanade, a technology solutions company jointly owned by Accenture and Microsoft, recently announced it would open an engineering hub in the Tampa Bay region — its first in the United States — and hire a whopping 500 software engineers, over the next three years, to staff it.

 

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