Editor’s note: This article was first published in November 2010, reporting news that Tuenti was opening a Barcelona office after its acquisition by Telefónica and hiring more staff. Tuenti later stopped operating as a social network.
The social network Tuenti has until now had just one office, in the Spanish capital, and it recently announced that it will open new offices outside Madrid, specifically in Barcelona. It hasn’t explained why it chose Barcelona for its second office, although I imagine it’s because it’s Spain’s second capital 🙂
Tuenti is expanding its network and, after being acquired by Telefónica, it will try to break into markets abroad, so it will need more staff to keep expanding its services and developing its network.
Tuenti has a page dedicated to job openings where, as with the other social networks, you just send your résumé and, once they give it the go-ahead, you start interviews. You can find it in the jobs section of Tuenti’s website.
On a personal note, given that Google, Facebook and Twitter demand a high level of spoken and written English to join their “ranks”, I just hope Tuenti hasn’t included that requirement, being a Spanish network. It could lose some very good computer engineers here in Spain because of it, people who didn’t have time to learn English because they were busy studying computer science.
Google asks its employees in Spain to speak perfect Spanish and English, but an employee working at the Mountain View office isn’t required to speak Spanish. So it would be crazy to require English at an office in Spain, for a Spanish network, knowing that in Spain we lag somewhat behind other countries when it comes to languages.
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