The startup that's harder to get into than Harvard

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Andela is a company that scouts for smart Nigerians with a talent for tech, trains them and places them to work for international companies like Microsoft, while still based in Nigeria.
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Andela is based New York and Lagos, where the recruits are trained. Many, like Johnson Ejezieove who is pictured here, move away from their hometowns for a chance to work for a global behemoth like Microsoft.
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Students are paid what the company calls a Nigerian upper middle class wage while they are training, but they first have to go through a four-stage grueling selection process.
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