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As a software engineer from the U.K. I always wondered if mega big tech did any interesting work outside the US. Hopefully things have changed now?
by jbjbjbjb 2y ago
As a software engineer from the U.K. I always wondered if mega big tech did any interesting work outside the US. Hopefully things have changed now?
- urronglol 2y ago[dead]
- aardvark179 2y agoThey do quite a lot of interesting things, but often either through acquisitions or by collecting up a whole load of specialists when somebody else closes an office. You also find some interesting stuff being done in the UK and the EU because salaries aren’t as high over here.
- eru 2y agoWe did some interesting work at Google Sydney. Google Wave was developed there, for example. (But that was before my time.)
- qingcharles 2y agoDefinitely. Megacorps often outsource projects to development shops in the UK, even if they're not working directly for Megacorp. It's just hard to hear about it because NDA hell. source: experience
- JKCalhoun 2y agoCork had Apple engineering. A lot of work was done in Apple France as well. (For example I worked with the French team that wrote "Data Detectors" when I worked on Preview at Apple). Pretty sure a lot of the French accents I heard on the Photos team were engineers that had decided to move from France to The Valley.
- kergonath 2y agoIndeed. There was a developers teams around Jean-Marie Hullot in Paris up until 2005. They were responsible among others of iCal and iSync, and I believe iPhoto (Hullot was a photographer and a photo nerd).
- yodsanklai 2y agoYes, they do. On the top of my head, Meta Fair labs has a big office in Paris for instance. Google/Meta have offices in Europe (including pretty big ones) and have interesting teams there.