Microsoft autism hiring (mainly but not just software engrs)

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Good luck in your business.

Make sure you’re an LLC.

And make sure you learn the tax rates. Do you know any “amateur accountants”?

You have to keep track of your taxes.

I'm fine cube thank you for your sensitivity and kindness. It helps me to think of other people, it's not helpful for me to sink into despair and drown in my own sorrows. I have lots of good things in my life.Tell us more about your business, do you enjoy working with your wife? What is SEO?

"Specialisterne works to enable jobs for high functioning people with autism, and similar challenges, through social entrepreneurship, innovative employment models and a national change in mindset.

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Ensuring that every autistic and other neurodiverse person who wants a meaningful career, gets a meaningful career.

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Must have an official diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder"

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Great, just great. This feeling when you're discriminated even in the discriminated group

If it helps, I've done Specialisterne stuff without an official diagnosis. The "must" here is wibbly-wobbly.

On the other hand (and I'll freely admit my contact with them has been somewhat limited), the time I interacted with them made me put them firmly into the basket of "Is actually worse at communicating with autistic people than an average person off the street." It might have been because they were only just getting a toehold in my country at the time, but holy crap were they super-ambiguous about things like times, dates, names, and places, or just repeatedly forgetting to convey information at all. I can only hope they've gotten better since then, but I've noticed this in a lot of places which purport to employ/engage autistics but are actually run by NTs.

On the gripping hand, I also don't like them very much because nearly everything I've seen them advertise is "Applicants must attend weeks or months of workshops or other events in city X in order to be considered for job Y through Specialisterne", whereas any normal person wanting to apply for job Y could do it from anywhere; they wouldn't have to be in city X. When you're a country two thousand miles wide, restricting applicants to city-X locals only massively reduces the number of potential autistic employment opportunities. They never offer distance options for such things, while normal employers might have phone interviews, Skype interviews, maybe even fly people in for interviews depending on the job, or just look at written applications (or, hell, have automated pre-assessment task capability stuff over the internet). And yes, Specialisterne's approach includes for national or international employers who would be far more used to recruiting over a distance or even having multiple identical jobs in different major locations. It's kind of the equivalent of saying "Hey, the federal government wants back-office paper-pushers in every state capital, but if you want to access that via Specialisterne you have to spend three months in New York City playing with Lego sets and answering multiple-choice questionnaires. Even if one of the actual jobs is in Sacramento where you personally live."