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> Is the labor shortage real It is pretty real. Hiring programmers is a challenge. The pay you can get is pretty good. > The Finnish education system was held
by user-the-name 5y ago
> Is the labor shortage real
It is pretty real. Hiring programmers is a challenge. The pay you can get is pretty good.
> The Finnish education system was held up as the most successful in the world when that was a topic a couple years ago; why can't it produce more tech talent?
Only 5.5 million people in all of Finland.
> Does the country experience a significant brain drain of (English-speaking) local engineers?
No. Finns don't move abroad that often.
> Given the circumstances, why not try to use more remote labor (e.g. in EU countries, within the same time zone) rather than trying to move people to Helsinki?
More of that is happening, especially after the pandemic, but obviously the mayor of Helsinki would not want that.