Google will open a new office complex and add hundreds of jobs in Taiwan
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Re: Google will open a new office complex and add hundreds of jobs in Taiwan
#2How long until the office is closed as a result of PRC protestations?
Re: Google will open a new office complex and add hundreds of jobs in Taiwan
#3>Last year, the project trained about 5,000 students in AI technology and 50,000 digital marketers.
I feel like Taiwan represents a talent opportunity like no other. I dream of starting an engineering company there that is literally a clone of some upcoming business model, and doing nothing but capping the work week at 40 hours and guaranteeing 4 weeks vacation. I could snipe the best talent on hand in the country, which is at the very least equal to some of the best silicon valley has to offer, at nearly half the rates. Lord forbid we target foreign contracts and the company can pay near US rates. I'd pilfer everyone's engineering department ;)
Overworked, underpaid, extremely competent was my experience of Taiwanese engineering. Google is good to step up in Taiwan - I believe it will pay dividends for them. I wonder what the Google work culture and salaries are like for their Taipei 101 office engineers? Last I checked it was about 2,000$/month for entry level.
Re: Google will open a new office complex and add hundreds of jobs in Taiwan
#4How long until the office is closed as a result of PRC protestations?
Probably never? Google already has a significant number of employees in Taiwan (partially because they bought part of HTC).
Re: Google will open a new office complex and add hundreds of jobs in Taiwan
#5How long until the office is closed as a result of PRC protestations?
They've had floors of Taipei 101 for about a decade now so I think this is unlikely.
Re: Google will open a new office complex and add hundreds of jobs in Taiwan
#6In 5 days:
"whoops nevermind"
Re: Google will open a new office complex and add hundreds of jobs in Taiwan
#7How long until the office is closed as a result of PRC protestations?
PRC can dream all they want but they have no authority on the island.
Re: Google will open a new office complex and add hundreds of jobs in Taiwan
#8When I visited last AWS was planning to open a large data center near taipei with similar AI ambitions. It's a small island and it's interesting to me that these two giants are both headed there with similar projects in mind.
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Re: Google will open a new office complex and add hundreds of jobs in Taiwan
#10How long until the office is closed as a result of PRC protestations?
PRC can dream all they want but they have no authority on the island.
At the end of the day, laws and authority are just a bunch of humans playing make believe with each other.
It all comes down to enforcement. Without enforcement, laws and authority are meaningless.
Take the USA and England as analogous to Taiwan and China.
In the 1700s, England had a "One-England policy" and claimed authority over the US colonies. The US colonies disagreed. Some of the international community acknowledged the One-England policy. Some didn't.
At the end of the day England tried to enforce their authority/laws and lost. Thus, England actually didn't have authority over the US colonies.
I suspect something similar may happen someday with Taiwan (though hopefully with less violence than the American Revolutionary War).