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personally, i'm not a fan of the "open" work environments, but you had a cat in there so that changes everything.
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It is the funniest reason I've ever heard. There's crazy shortage of talents in Moscow and SPb, so any employee will hire a gay, a centipede from Tau Ceti or a satan and shower him with money and lots of perks if he is good in programming. However, lack of gay developers is definitely not the cause of this shortage (after all, their rights are protected by Constitution and being in top 10% of citizens by income, IT p…
He he, I remember 15 years ago when I told a friend studying economics and East Europe, that I had racist tendencies when it came to Russians -- everyone I had ever talked to for more than five minutes were an engineer or had a cultural job (musician, etc). He coughed up some coffee and told stories about St P, the cost of life (well, the cost of death) and so on. So, it is not dangerous now? It is good that things g…
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He he, I remember 15 years ago when I told a friend studying economics and East Europe, that I had racist tendencies when it came to Russians -- everyone I had ever talked to for more than five minutes were an engineer or had a cultural job (musician, etc). He coughed up some coffee and told stories about St P, the cost of life (well, the cost of death) and so on. So, it is not dangerous now? It is good that things g…
Life in Russia significantly improved during last 15 years, but crime rates are still high everywhere. However, it depends on your life style whether you face this danger on the streets or not. IT jobs are among the best paid here, so you can afford secure neighborhood. Modern Russia has large police force and a half-million army of CHOPs ("private security enterprise"), guarding malls, banks, offices, train stations…
I've only been to gay parties a few times in my life. Very depressing, since they have much more fun than we hetero people. You feel a bit ashamed even, for your "preferences". :-( It doesn't matter, since (at least for Sweden) they have horrible music taste, Eurovision is the least bad component.
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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…
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Life in Russia significantly improved during last 15 years, but crime rates are still high everywhere. However, it depends on your life style whether you face this danger on the streets or not. IT jobs are among the best paid here, so you can afford secure neighborhood. Modern Russia has large police force and a half-million army of CHOPs ("private security enterprise"), guarding malls, banks, offices, train stations…
Well, as long as you don't own a company worth stealing you don't get problems with the police (and other organized crime)? :-) I've only been to gay parties a few times in my life. Very depressing, since they have much more fun than we hetero people. You feel a bit ashamed even, for your "preferences". :-( It doesn't matter, since (at least for Sweden) they have horrible music taste, Eurovision is the least bad comp…