Re:Skilled devs, low costs: Cluj-Napoca emerging as a tech hub
by toyg on Thursday November 26, 2015 @10:03PM
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I am as wary as you of offshoring in general, but Romania is not that "broken". It has problems, yes; it's still quite poor, yes; but it's a relatively stable part of the world, raising very limited interests from movers and shakers (unlike the Balkans, Ukraine, Egypt or Israel, places with problematic geopolitical intersections).
> But I wish that all those companies seeing 10% of cost of a London team will have backbones in a years time.
To be fair, it's not a given that even London teams will have backbones in a year's time, given current property-price pressures and the easy access to global markets that London grants to local talent.
In that sense, the cold calculation is that you can pay £100 and have a 80% chance to have a backbone next year, or you can pay £10 and have a 50% chance; is that 30% extra worth 90% of costs to you? It's a legitimate question, and the answer might not be the same for every company.
> But I wish that all those companies seeing 10% of cost of a London team will have backbones in a years time.
To be fair, it's not a given that even London teams will have backbones in a year's time, given current property-price pressures and the easy access to global markets that London grants to local talent.
In that sense, the cold calculation is that you can pay £100 and have a 80% chance to have a backbone next year, or you can pay £10 and have a 50% chance; is that 30% extra worth 90% of costs to you? It's a legitimate question, and the answer might not be the same for every company.