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My best guess is that a part of it is replacing US (or in this case Israeli) devs with much cheaper Italian/European ones, earning ~a quarter of their US counte

My best guess is that a part of it is replacing US (or in this case Israeli) devs with much cheaper Italian/European ones, earning ~a quarter of their US counterparts and working longer hours, as Bending Spoons has an extremely competitive hiring process, and is probably the highest paying tech company in Italy

Beretta_Vexee 9mo ago
They are also very good at pooling their infrastructure and software stack. This accounts for a significant portion of the costs.
ragall 9mo ago
Actually they're paying very competitive salaries. For example: https://jobs.bendingspoons.com/positions/67c6dc18c70c531d6db8bc3e https://jobs.bendingspoons.com/positions/67c6dc18c70c531d6db....
- throwaway2037 9mo ago
  > Typically, we offer individuals at the start of their career an annual salary of £85,797 in London and €66,065 elsewhere in Europe. That would be excellent pay for a junior engineer in Italy.
  - nness 9mo ago
    An annual salary of £85,797 in London for a junior is impressive, too.
  - SkiFire13 9mo ago
    AFAIK that's what they offer to juniors straight out of university and usually even give a substantial pay rise after the first year. I don't know other places in Italy that can match that.
- IshKebab 9mo ago
  I can't see any salaries there but presumably they're going to be competitive for Europe, which is roughly half the competitive salary in America. There are plenty of competent devs outside America. I can't see any reason why you'd want to pay American salaries if you're a global company.