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I was there very recently. It's a nice place. It's a bit like you imagine Durham UK to be if it'd been occupied by the soviets - a university town with some inc

I was there very recently. It's a nice place. It's a bit like you imagine Durham UK to be if it'd been occupied by the soviets - a university town with some incredible old buildings, but with a real feel of poverty about the place. Still, it was pleasent and felt safe. Everyone from the taxi drivers to waiting staff know that it's stuffed to the gills with programmers. Seems there's also a pretty impressive gender split - the tech events I went to tended to be 50% women. > he lists the geographic proximity to Western Europe Getting to Cluj is a completely ball-ache. There are some infrequent flights from Vienna (on a terrifying TAROM turboprop), and a Whizz Air flight from Luton once a day, and presumably at least one flight from Bucharest. Train from Budapest or Bucharest takes for-e-v-a.

joesmo 11y ago
Yeah, Cluj is a great city. The people are friendly and quite hard working, IMO. There are multiple flights from/to Bucharest every day (and from there pretty much any place you want to go) so travel shouldn't be too difficult. There is undoubtedly a lot of undiscovered talent that can be had rather cheaply because of the rather undeveloped economy outside of IT in general. I hope it continues to grow and develop as more companies see fit to invest in Cluj and Romania in general.
ilek 11y ago
I was there recently for a couple of weeks for work. Pretty ugly place to be honest, but like you say people are very friendly. Our office there had female dev but the general gender ratio there seemed heavily skewed towards women. I wouldn't be fussed about going back.