3 ms·
Dublin is a great place to live and good place for tech companies. I recently had to hire a developer and got plenty of good resumes and was really happy with t
by dclaysmith 16y ago
Dublin is a great place to live and good place for tech companies. I recently had to hire a developer and got plenty of good resumes and was really happy with the eventual hire. Google, PayPal, Facebook are here and loads of online gaming/gambling companies too.
Plus you can't beat the Guiness.
That being said, I'd say that if you aren't already in Ireland--the funding above would probably not be an option. Getting a visa is not a trivial matter (especially without an actual employer) and Enterprise Ireland will make you jump through alot of hoops for that money. Pretty great idea tho'--Ireland needs programs like that to get the economy back on track.
- rmc 16y agoGetting a visa is not a trivial matter Remember Ireland is a member of the European Union, so any EU citizen can live & work in Ireland. If you parent or grandparent are Irish citizens/have an irish passport, then you can get Irish citizenship and live and work in Ireland forever.
- dclaysmith 16y agoVery true--was thinking more for the US-based readers.
- ciupicri 16y agoNot any EU citizen http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300890 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300890
- wildmXranat 16y agoI think Microsoft's advertising arm is there as well. They were looking for multilingual developers and offered to relocate even from Canada. I guess Ireland's corp taxes are a haven.
- seanodonnell 16y agoMicrosoft has a ton of stuff here, originally it was mostly localization work, now they do a bit of everything and have a few big datacentres as well. They do enough that "Microsoft" all on its own is a few percent of the GDP.
- rmc 16y agoGoogle, PayPal, Facebook are here Amazon aswell. Their AWS EU datacentre is in Ireland.
- ikujhygtfhj 16y agoTheir are (or were) all HQ in Ireland as a tax measure - not sure how many employees they had. Google particularly had a lot of employees in London but only paid tax in Ireland
- rmc 16y agoI know for a fact that Google employes hundreds/thousands of technical people in Ireland. Amazon also employes technical people in Irealdn
- ppod 16y agoI'm a new grad (PhD CompSci) looking for a job in Dublin - where did you advertise your position? Where would you suggest I look? Any tips?