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Russia is an IT midget, comparatively. And with ever increasing sanctions regime it's going to remain backwaters for the near future.
by varjag 6y ago
Russia is an IT midget, comparatively. And with ever increasing sanctions regime it's going to remain backwaters for the near future.
- DaiPlusPlus 6y agoWhich is a shame, because I remember there were a LOT of highly talented individuals in Russian academia right when the Soviet Union dissolved - owing to the SU's strong showing in mathematics research.
- ashtonkem 6y agoI believe that is exactly why companies like EPAM exist, to contract out the engineers left idle after the collapse of the USSR.
- varjag 6y agoThere's more or less noone working at EPAM in developer capacity who was an engineer before collapse of USSR, and it's been the case for a couple decades.
- ashtonkem 6y agoRight, but they would've been partially educated by the USSR's educational system, some of which would have outlived the USSR itself.