With between 100 and 200 employees in U.S. (Silicon Valley and Florida), Spain, Germany and the UK, BitDefender, controlled by the Talpes family, continues expansion this year, planning to open offices in Canada, Mexico, Brazil and India.
“Only 10% of the candidates who come to a job interview pass the logical-mathematical intelligence test, with 40% of current employees being winners of mathematics and IT Olympiads, both national and international,” says Mihaela Dan, 54, Global HR Director of BitDefender.
Currently the company has almost 30 vacancies at its offices in Bucharest, Cluj, France and the U.S., most for technical jobs, such as software engineer, iPhone software developer and business technical services engineer, according to its website. These jobs are in the innovation and technology departments, online threats, product management, software development and technical support.
The salaries offered by BitDefender to young graduates of technical colleges, with no previous experience, start from EUR700-800 net per month, according to market information. With offices in Bucharest, Cluj, Iasi and Timisoara, the company continues recruitment this year, especially for technical jobs.
“We raised salaries each year, including this year, but the raises were based on salary evaluations and on performance management. We never gave raises to those who did not score high in the evaluation or who did not achieve their targets,” says Dan.
In 2009, BitDefender posted a EUR24.8 million net turnover, up by over 40% against the previous year, and a net profit of EUR1.7 million, 15 times more than in 2008, according to data on the website of the Finance Ministry.