>Eastern Europe, like many other poor places in the world, is depleted of human capital because its simply such a crappy place to live.
What makes you think that it's crappy place to live (e.g Poland)? except politics
What makes you think that it's crappy place to live (e.g Poland)? except politics
Food's good, though.
what do you mean? fighting corruption?
It's hard to compare universities, unless you have attended both of them
Innovation output != Quality of teaching
Polish "computer-related" people are very often in top when it comes to e.g security (src: https://ctftime.org/) and top universities grads tends to have open doors to faang
I've seen people from both of those groups speaking very good about the schools they attended
Let me put this way: I know people who graduated in Computer Science, in Poland, who can't program. Not in some particular language; they can't write programs, they just don't quite get the idea.
Me too, but doesn't it happen in every country?