Would love to understand how the friends here see the Brazilian ecosystem, from the economic point of view, political, stability, entrepreneur and education.
Ask HN: How do you see Brazil?
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#2Deforestation of the Amazon, kapoeira and carnavals is everything I know about Brasil without googling.
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#3A country with a huge amount of potential. It's got the third largest manufacturer of airliners in the world, for instance. The only biofuel program that is really profitable. My environmentalist friends really disapprove of JBS but it is another "national champion" that is truly world beating.
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#4I'm brazilian, but living abroad almost a decade:
Brazil: - Needs more capital for even very simple projects, like infrastructure, clean water supply etc - Finance/banking sector is really well developed, better than every country I've visited - Brazilians need to learn english, it's the world's language and so many opportunities are missed out - Companies still see Brazil as a country that the legal system is messy, power of law isn't thought to be as most first world countries - It's a country with a lot of potential, but to unlock it, Brazil needs to find something that its good at, that isn't commodities
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#5Once upon a time I wanted to spend new year's eve in Rio. Now I don't want to go because it feels unsafe. I know a lot of great hackers come from Brazil so I know a lot of people still care. That's the thing with countries: they are either getting better or growing worse and Brazil unfortunately seems to fall in the latter category.
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#6I ran an American office in brasil. The best developer community! But drug down by bureaucracy. The reality is that running a company in brasil is about 1000x harder than the US.
Much stronger rights for the enployees. We had employees essentially start protesting against “imperialism” (ie against the american company employing them) and stopped working and would disrupt meetings with passionate speeches anbout gender annd worker rights. This was the result of learning their American engineer counterparts made 3x more than them when they converted their salaries from reals.
we couldn’t fire them. In fact we had to pay them 1 year of salary when we let them go after months of discussions with brasil lawyers.
So good to hire from. Terrible to have an office there.
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#7I ran an American office in brasil. The best developer community! But drug down by bureaucracy. The reality is that running a company in brasil is about 1000x harder than the US. Much stronger rights for the enployees. We had employees essentially start protesting against “imperialism” (ie against the american company employing them) and stopped working and would disrupt meetings with passionate speeches anbout gende…
>So good to hire from.
Nothing you said supports this statement. This comment pretty much explains why most roles are not at risk of being outsourced: it’s a pain in the ass to deal with.
Re: Ask HN: How do you see Brazil?
#8I ran an American office in brasil. The best developer community! But drug down by bureaucracy. The reality is that running a company in brasil is about 1000x harder than the US. Much stronger rights for the enployees. We had employees essentially start protesting against “imperialism” (ie against the american company employing them) and stopped working and would disrupt meetings with passionate speeches anbout gende…
>So good to hire from. Nothing you said supports this statement. This comment pretty much explains why most roles are not at risk of being outsourced: it’s a pain in the ass to deal with.
Sorry, shouldn’t have said hire from but rather “contract” from.
Right now I run an engineering team from brasil but it’s on a contractor basis through a brasil company. Fantastic results. Incredible developer community. Deep desire to build proper code.
Almost all Python developers in Brasil go to yearly pilgrimages to Python Brasil or Python Nordeste or other developer conferences. Much higher participation in the “community” aspect of programming than anything I saw in the US or other countries.
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#10I've been to Brazil close to a dozen times, both for business and for adventure travel (kitesurfing and paragliding). I love the country and the people and have a lot of friends there. I find most Americans overestimate how 'dangerous' Brazil seems to be, based on hearsay. In Brazil I rarely meet other Americans, but do meet lots of adventurous Europeans and others who also love this huge, beautiful, diverse—and of course also troubled—country.