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Check out JetBrains' new R&D office in St. Petersburg
- nraynaud 13y agoit's so refreshing to see a company rising from somewhere else than the western world. Somehow it's almost too bad they chose the google style for their office it's not exotic enough for my westerner's eyes. I'm a fanboy: since 2005, I have made all my employer buy some of their products, and when I have no employer, I buy some myself. (on a side note, I didn't know they where in Russia, I always assumed they were based in Central Europe)
- rdemmer 13y agoHiding around the corner just might be something strange and exotic enough for you :-) http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2013/06/04/jetbrains-hackathon-2013-winning-project-weighs-in-at-100-kg/ http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2013/06/04/jetbrains-hackatho...
- r080 13y ago> I always assumed they were based in Central Europe they have headquarters in Prague
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- CmonDev 13y agoWhy would you expect it to be exotic? Russia is not Asia culturally, it's not East in any way except for geography.
- nraynaud 13y agoTheir traditional architecture is way different than the ones from Prague or Paris, they have a different traditional religion, they have been isolated from the western world for 80 years. But I don't know their culture well enough to know what would be typical and different from the west. I would not try to generalize Asia anyways, because Siberia, Saudi Arabia, India and Japan are all there and all completely different.
- cema 13y agoSt Petersburg was built as a European imperial city, and architecturally it is still very much that. (Outskirts are different, just like in Paris.) Religion (Orthodox Christianity) and script (Cyrillic) are different from the Western and Central Europe, true, but culturally it's a vibrant mix of different European and different Asian (especially Central Asian) influences. The isolation you mentioned did happen but it was not total, and I would say in some respects (especially scientific) there was less isolation then than, say, before the XIX century.
- mtrimpe 13y agoToo bad you can't put a rainbow on it.
- skrebbel 13y agoDoes anyone know why JetBrains, which seems to very much be a Russian company, has their head office in Prague?
- seivan 13y agoTalent. By being in certain countries you exclude certain talent because of discriminatory laws. Russia for instance can forget about any talent that might be part of or supportive of LGBT. Not sure if Prague is better though, but at this moment most countries are better than 'state sponsored' national socialist attacks.
- hhariri 13y agoNot sure I'm following.
- seivan 13y agoIt was a guess on the reason, I guess I am wrong, but my point is still valid in general.
- mtrimpe 13y agoHe's referring to St. Petersburg's (and Russia's in general) horrendous treatment of it's non-heterosexual inhabitants: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/01/russia-rise-homophobic-violence http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/01/russia-rise-hom...
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- csmuk 13y agoSo that's where our license fees are going...
- kayoone 13y agoyeah and thats excellent. I want the devs to feel comfortable when working so their products can get even better :) Besides i think their pricing is very competitive and that office probably cost a fraction of what hip spaces in SF cost.
- JanezStupar 13y agoHonestly, most of JetBrains license value can be recovered within a week. I find their license prices to be extremely reasonable.
- lemming 13y agoLooks amazing. I'm really glad to see Jetbrains do well, they're one of my favourite companies. They deserve their success, their products are fantastic.
- camus2 13y agoNice, going to St Petersburg in January ,can i drop by?
- rdemmer 13y agoDrop me a line with your dates, let me know if there's any particular team you would like to meet and what you would be interesting in seeing. robert(dot)demmer[at]jetbrains(dot)com
- camus2 13y agothanks! i'll be near Ligovsky Prospekt ,should not be to far,i'll send you a mail as soon as i have my visa.
- guard-of-terra 13y agoВасильевский остров прекрасен как жаба в манжетах! If I happened to live in SPb, I would be working for JetBrains for sure. (I am not)
- sesm 13y agoThe first sentence looks weird, is it google translate? (russian here)
- guard-of-terra 13y agoIt's Сплин.
- sesm 13y agoShame on me :)
- cema 13y agoВасильевский остров прекрасен как жаба в манжетах! Used to be, anyway. This is a general putdown of the city whose palaces resemble Versailles but are located on the marshland banks of the Neva river. St Petersburg deserves better. (Loose translation of the quote: Vassilevsky Island is beautiful just like a toad with cufflinks.)
- Roritharr 13y agoI can't shake the feeling that this was paid for by Google basing their Android Studio on IDEA... ;)
- 3825 13y agoBut the community edition is available on a permissive Apache 2 license[1]. If I were Google, I'd only pay for IDEA community edition for the support contract (and to make sure JetBrains doesn't go out of business). [1] https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community
- GoldfishCRM 13y agoWhere are all the people?
- rdemmer 13y agoHere are JetBrains office locations: http://www.jetbrains.com/company/contacts/ http://www.jetbrains.com/company/contacts/ St. Petersburg & Munich are the main dev centers.
- guard-of-terra 13y agoI think he meant "on the photos".
- rdemmer 13y agoThe video was shot on a Sunday.
- dschiptsov 13y agoLooks like Google office in Ireland, so what? Only lazy does not copying Google in Russia,)
- systems 13y agowhy do they need such a big office, i also didnt know they make this kind of money but seriously , this must have cost several millions, why spend so much on office space!!
- rdemmer 13y agoGrowth, onsite events, etc.
- hhariri 13y agoBecause we need it?
- JanezStupar 13y agoCurrently they have 300 engineers, they plan that this office will hold 500. I see nothing too extravagant about that?
- chiph 13y agoJetBrains is an example of what happens when you build a product that lots of people like, and then charge a reasonable price for it. It's easy to convince a boss to buy a tool when it's not a bazillion dollars.
- eps 13y ago- Vasili, come quickly. There are sunny photos from St.Petersburg! - Pfft, Nikolai, you should know better. That's just another photoshop. Great office, fellas. Really jealous :)
- whoisthemachine 13y agopersonally, i'm not a fan of the "open" work environments, but you had a cat in there so that changes everything.
- e12e 13y agoI wonder how that works out if they want to recruit someone who is allergic to cats? I like cats, but being (mildly) allergic, I don't think I could work every day in the same room as one (sadly).
- solomatov 13y agoMost of developers work in 4-6 people rooms so it's not an open space environment.
- fidotron 13y agoThat music room is an inspired idea I've not seen in an office before. Just being able to play piano for twenty minutes can do wonders for the mind.
- raphaelcaixeta 13y agoJetbrains is one of my favorite companies. Success well deserved. Congrats guys!