JetBrains suspends R&D activities in Russia and sales in Russia and Belarus
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Re: JetBrains suspends R&D activities in Russia and sales in Russia and Belarus
#2Russia looks set to remove trademark protection and has already removed patent protection from JetBrains (along with basically the entire west) - could be related to why now rather than earlier: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/03/09/russia-al...
Re: JetBrains suspends R&D activities in Russia and sales in Russia and Belarus
#3They never publicly announced how many employees they had in Russia, but I heard informally that they have over 5000 people there, mostly in the Saint Petersburg offices.
5000 employees with family members... even if many of them choose to quit, that's a lot of people to move across the border that can close any time.
Re: JetBrains suspends R&D activities in Russia and sales in Russia and Belarus
#4Russia looks set to remove trademark protection and has already removed patent protection from JetBrains (along with basically the entire west) - could be related to why now rather than earlier: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/03/09/russia-al...
It's not about trademarks, patents or licenses. JetBrains made a public statement against the war in Ukraine, now they fear for the safety of the employees left in Russia.
Re: JetBrains suspends R&D activities in Russia and sales in Russia and Belarus
#5They never publicly announced how many employees they had in Russia, but I heard informally that they have over 5000 people there, mostly in the Saint Petersburg offices. 5000 employees with family members... even if many of them choose to quit, that's a lot of people to move across the border that can close any time.
From my estimates it's probably closer to 1500. They have 1900 employees worldwide: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/annualreport-2022/
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Re: JetBrains suspends R&D activities in Russia and sales in Russia and Belarus
#7Russia looks set to remove trademark protection and has already removed patent protection from JetBrains (along with basically the entire west) - could be related to why now rather than earlier: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/03/09/russia-al...
It's not about trademarks, patents or licenses. JetBrains made a public statement against the war in Ukraine, now they fear for the safety of the employees left in Russia.
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Re: JetBrains suspends R&D activities in Russia and sales in Russia and Belarus
#8They never publicly announced how many employees they had in Russia, but I heard informally that they have over 5000 people there, mostly in the Saint Petersburg offices. 5000 employees with family members... even if many of them choose to quit, that's a lot of people to move across the border that can close any time.
From my estimates it's probably closer to 1500. They have 1900 employees worldwide: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/annualreport-2022/
Thanks for the link. Indeed, looking at the their buildings in SpB [1], 1500 looks more reasonable.
2 towers, 8 floors, max 100 people at each floor = 1600. And they clearly built the towers with extra capacity in mind.
Still... knowing how difficult it was for 10x smaller PandaDoc to evacuate from Belarus in similar circumstances in 2020, I wish them all the luck.
[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/company/contacts/st-petersburg/
Re: JetBrains suspends R&D activities in Russia and sales in Russia and Belarus
#9Does anyone know how that works ? I'd be open to seeing what is the internal communication. Will the Russian employees be in furlough ? Will they cut access ? How is the business supposed to move forward ?
Re: JetBrains suspends R&D activities in Russia and sales in Russia and Belarus
#10Does anyone know how that works ? I'd be open to seeing what is the internal communication. Will the Russian employees be in furlough ? Will they cut access ? How is the business supposed to move forward ?
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