Looks like Google office in Ireland, so what? Only lazy does not copying Google in Russia,)
Check out JetBrains' new R&D office in St. Petersburg
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#42Where are all the people?
Here are JetBrains office locations: http://www.jetbrains.com/company/contacts/
St. Petersburg & Munich are the main dev centers.
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#43why do they need such a big office,
i also didnt know they make this kind of money
but seriously , this must have cost several millions, why spend so much on office space!!
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#44Nice, going to St Petersburg in January ,can i drop by?
Drop me a line with your dates, let me know if there's any particular team you would like to meet and what you would be interesting in seeing. robert(dot)demmer[at]jetbrains(dot)com
thanks! i'll be near Ligovsky Prospekt ,should not be to far,i'll send you a mail as soon as i have my visa.
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#45Re: Check out JetBrains' new R&D office in St. Petersburg
#46why do they need such a big office, i also didnt know they make this kind of money but seriously , this must have cost several millions, why spend so much on office space!!
Growth, onsite events, etc.
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#47Re: Check out JetBrains' new R&D office in St. Petersburg
#48 - Vasili, come quickly. There are sunny photos from St.Petersburg!
- Pfft, Nikolai, you should know better. That's just another photoshop.
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#49I can't shake the feeling that this was paid for by Google basing their Android Studio on IDEA... ;)
But the community edition is available on a permissive Apache 2 license[1]. If I were Google, I'd only pay for IDEA community edition for the support contract (and to make sure JetBrains doesn't go out of business).
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#50it's so refreshing to see a company rising from somewhere else than the western world. Somehow it's almost too bad they chose the google style for their office it's not exotic enough for my westerner's eyes. I'm a fanboy: since 2005, I have made all my employer buy some of their products, and when I have no employer, I buy some myself. (on a side note, I didn't know they where in Russia, I always assumed they were ba…
Why would you expect it to be exotic? Russia is not Asia culturally, it's not East in any way except for geography.
Their traditional architecture is way different than the ones from Prague or Paris, they have a different traditional religion, they have been isolated from the western world for 80 years. But I don't know their culture well enough to know what would be typical and different from the west.
I would not try to generalize Asia anyways, because Siberia, Saudi Arabia, India and Japan are all there and all completely different.