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they are building a new python team from scratch in munich, for whatever reason. yeah, it doesn't make sense to me either.

• joyboyluffy 3y ago
  I am sure you will find another job that you really like. Well you said you guys were seriously understaffed but that makes it more nonsense to fire them. So were you guys working on a specific project and will those guys from munich continue on it.
  • zem 3y ago
    we were working on a ton of stuff (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40176338 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40176338) - pretty sure the munich team will need to pick up most or all of it.
• rtpg 3y ago
  Salary, right? I have to imagine at one point the gap between US devs and European devs is starting to be felt
  • happyopossum 3y ago
    The team wasn't US based - GP is in .nl...
    • rtpg 3y ago
      As others have pointed out, OP is in NL, but the rest of the team was in the US.
• luckyrand 3y ago
  I’m sorry to hear that. It does not make sense at all. Python cython is a complex ecosystem. It is very difficult for new engineers to pick up speed. Do you think there is some priority change? Like more focus on internal use case, instead of upstream contribution?
  • zem 3y ago
    i doubt there is much room for a priority change. as i said elsewhere, we were a pretty understaffed team, so we were already very focused on the highest value internal use cases. we did have a couple of people who also worked on the core python interpreter, but that was only a fraction of their duties, and even our open source and upstream contributions were driven by stuff that google also needed done.
    • Bcobleigh2 3y ago
      The Python Foundation team should spin off and make an AI company. Would probably receive a lot of interest from investors.
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