You mean the language barrier between your own native language and English? Because from what I've experienced, most younger people in IT speak English very wel

You mean the language barrier between your own native language and English? Because from what I've experienced, most younger people in IT speak English very well. EDIT: Yeap, Romania has been doing well. However, I'd argue that the biggest risk is not corruption. From the Romanian workforce's point of view, its becoming too dependent on outsourcing. As salary costs rise, it becomes less and less attractive for foreign companies to outsource work to Romania. Right now, in the city where I live in Romania, 80% of the IT companies are outsourcing companies. It's getting better and better, and most good programmers know to avoid the outsourcing companies as they generally pay peanuts and the work is boring and repetitive.