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Poland.

On one hand it’s a bit slower on the other Google here hiring like crazy, Netflix opening up an office, Shopify acquiring whole companies…

To me it seems like big tech fires in the US then look for cheaper workforce elsewhere. Or maybe just a coincidence?

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Can confirm. I, a software engineer (along with many others), was laid off and new teams are being brought up in Poland to do the same work.

Canada here, I think the same thing is happening.

Since the everything bubble crested, Canada has gotten pretty high up there in salary so it's not necessarily boosting our salaries too much more, but I don't think hiring is slowing down here either

Yeah, it seems that the highly paid Silicon Valley developers have effectively convinced executives that their jobs can be done remotely.

And it’s entirely their fault too if it ends up being the case.

Engineers love showing themselves the door from their work lol.

Hard to say. It might be, but I did notice some not so subtle memes posted on LinkedIn about "dont wanna come to office? lemme get someone from India; you want donuts tomorrow boss?". I am oddly inspired that the old country is getting slowly recognized as a place to pick up developers though ( it makes sense, big English speaking population, similar values ).

Slowly recognized? Indian programmers have been a constant thing for way over 10 years now.

Apologies. Clumsy phrasing. I meant Polish programmers, but comparison used in memes was about Indian programmers.

Intel Poland laid off a number of engineers, especially seniors and women.

Can confirm for Cisco India.

Google Poland afaik has hiring freeze right now.

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