Васильевский остров прекрасен как жаба в манжетах!
If I happened to live in SPb, I would be working for JetBrains for sure. (I am not)
Check out JetBrains' new R&D office in St. Petersburg
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#22I can't shake the feeling that this was paid for by Google basing their Android Studio on IDEA... ;)
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#23Васильевский остров прекрасен как жаба в манжетах! If I happened to live in SPb, I would be working for JetBrains for sure. (I am not)
The first sentence looks weird, is it google translate? (russian here)
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Talent. By being in certain countries you exclude certain talent because of discriminatory laws. Russia for instance can forget about any talent that might be part of or supportive of LGBT. Not sure if Prague is better though, but at this moment most countries are better than 'state sponsored' national socialist attacks.
Not sure I'm following.
He's referring to St. Petersburg's (and Russia's in general) horrendous treatment of it's non-heterosexual inhabitants:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/01/russia-rise-hom...
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#27Does anyone know why JetBrains, which seems to very much be a Russian company, has their head office in Prague?
Talent. By being in certain countries you exclude certain talent because of discriminatory laws. Russia for instance can forget about any talent that might be part of or supportive of LGBT. Not sure if Prague is better though, but at this moment most countries are better than 'state sponsored' national socialist attacks.
Yeah, no, Prague is no better. When it comes to LGBT rights, it's the same story all across the Soviet Union.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Sales office is located in Prague, with a small Dev department. Most R&D is in St. Petersburg and in Munich.
It must be quite funny to be in a company where almost nobody communicate in his native language. I've seen some russian language messages in youtrack followed by a stern response to write in english in public places. The trick is always the same, when you use english as the common language in your company, you immediately give a strong communication power to native english speakers, they always look so confident whe…
Ugh. I work in china where English is the working language. Many of my Chinese colleagues are very confident in speaking English, to the point that my advantage is limited to helping with paper editing when submission deadlines approach.
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#29Does anyone know why JetBrains, which seems to very much be a Russian company, has their head office in Prague?
> Does anyone know why JetBrains, which seems to very much be a Russian company, has their head office in Prague?
I've long assumed it was for marketing and business reasons. So many of us in the west automatically are suspicious of dealing with a Russian company, especially when it comes to handing over credit card information. A prejudice for sure.
The Czech Republic, however, is close enough to Russia, with a closely related language, with good travel connections to Russia, is more integrated with the west, especially since 2004 when it joined the EU, suffers less from the prejudice we often hold towards Russia, but still has a low cost of living relative to, say, Germany, UK, or - God forbid - Silicon Valley.
Oh, and when you tell staff, "Hey, we need you to make a trip to Prague to visit the Czech office", very few of them are disappointed...
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#30So that's where our license fees are going...
yeah and thats excellent. I want the devs to feel comfortable when working so their products can get even better :) Besides i think their pricing is very competitive and that office probably cost a fraction of what hip spaces in SF cost.