Tech workers flee Belarus as IT haven takes authoritarian turn
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Tech workers flee Belarus as IT haven takes authoritarian turn
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Re: Tech workers flee Belarus as IT haven takes authoritarian turn
#2I used to contract for a firm which made heavy use of Belarusian software dev teams, hopefully all is cool with the guys I used to work with :S
Re: Tech workers flee Belarus as IT haven takes authoritarian turn
#3I used to contract for a firm which made heavy use of Belarusian software dev teams, hopefully all is cool with the guys I used to work with :S
Same.
It also seems like Belarus is killing the goose that laid the golden egg here, not that that’s surprising behavior from an authoritarian regime fighting for its life.
Re: Tech workers flee Belarus as IT haven takes authoritarian turn
#4For those that hit a paywall/ no-script block, here are some alternative links to what I presume to be pretty much the same article
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-belarus-election-tech-idUK...
https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/europe/belarus-it-w...
https://icotalknews.com/business/tech-workers-flee-belarus-a...
P.P.S This was one of things I used to use the now defunct 'Web' button for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23762479
Re: Tech workers flee Belarus as IT haven takes authoritarian turn
#5They felt fine with Lukashenko for the last four years, they'll be fine with Lukashenko for the next four years. Actually, I don't think Daddy will hold up for the whole term, Russia will play smart and integrate Belarus , one way or another. Not as part of Russia, but I'd expect closer ties in finances and planning; and, possibly, heavy industry
Re: Tech workers flee Belarus as IT haven takes authoritarian turn
#6“There’s no borders at all for IT engineers. They can find a job anywhere.”
Uhm yeah, but they also have parents, siblings, girlfriends. Probably they might have some properties bought already. So as it may seem really advantageous to be in IT, one might not be able to move to another country just like that...
Re: Tech workers flee Belarus as IT haven takes authoritarian turn
#7I used to contract for a firm which made heavy use of Belarusian software dev teams, hopefully all is cool with the guys I used to work with :S
Same. It also seems like Belarus is killing the goose that laid the golden egg here, not that that’s surprising behavior from an authoritarian regime fighting for its life.
Crazy to see it's EPAM which is the company my old client used. Also crazy to see Yandex evacuated staff (presumably back to Russia?) which kind of feels like being tossed from the frying pan into the fire...
Re: Tech workers flee Belarus as IT haven takes authoritarian turn
#8I used to contract for a firm which made heavy use of Belarusian software dev teams, hopefully all is cool with the guys I used to work with :S
Same. It also seems like Belarus is killing the goose that laid the golden egg here, not that that’s surprising behavior from an authoritarian regime fighting for its life.
> It also seems like Belarus is killing the goose that laid the golden egg here
If some kind of deeper integration with Russia is on the horizon, as many have expected for years, then this might hardly matter. The overall Russian economy is so based on the export of natural resources, that the ruling stratum is hardly worried about other industries like the IT sector. All those Russians except for the ~10 million needed to run and support the oil and gas sector, have sometimes been described as "superfluous population" by commentators. Obviously this situation sucks for the ordinary citizen, but what can you do?
Re: Tech workers flee Belarus as IT haven takes authoritarian turn
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same. It also seems like Belarus is killing the goose that laid the golden egg here, not that that’s surprising behavior from an authoritarian regime fighting for its life.
> It also seems like Belarus is killing the goose that laid the golden egg here If some kind of deeper integration with Russia is on the horizon, as many have expected for years, then this might hardly matter. The overall Russian economy is so based on the export of natural resources, that the ruling stratum is hardly worried about other industries like the IT sector. All those Russians except for the ~10 million nee…
Man, Russia has way more people than I thought. For some reason I expected it to be less than 100 million total.
Re: Tech workers flee Belarus as IT haven takes authoritarian turn
#10It was already authorization- its the "last dictatorship in europe" - what did they think it was before?