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Re:Skilled devs, low costs: Cluj-Napoca emerging as a tech hub by cristianpascu on Friday November 27, 2015 @03:36AM (#10636439)
I don't think we can honestly say there is something really serious coming out of Romania (with few exceptions) as long as our overall culture still lags behind. Entrepreneurial culture is built on the general state of culture, the juice youth grow in, the schools, the friends they make in high school and college, the teachers they have and so on.

The pool of developers is large, although not as large as the demand, but the mentality is still one of an employee. Very little UX skills. What to say then about having a far reaching, yet pragmatic vision. Funding also is an issue, but I'd say it's mainly the people, from devs to the way too many 'mentors'.

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Re:Skilled devs, low costs: Cluj-Napoca emerging as a tech hub by ccozan on Friday November 27, 2015 @03:53AM (#10636491)
Nothing serious? How about BitDefender?

Regarding the culture of being employed, you should check Germany. Everyone wants to be an employee, lots of benefits. Making a company is extremely hard and capital intensive. A freelancer is chased by all autorities and they make you feel like an outlaw. And so on.

Compared to this, Romania is a littel heaven. Just the corruption and buericracy is holding it back.

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Re:Skilled devs, low costs: Cluj-Napoca emerging as a tech hub by cristianpascu on Friday November 27, 2015 @12:31PM (#10638097)
They're one of the exceptions. However, antivirus market is really crowded, so I don't there're anything exceptional in that. Same with Avangate. VectorWatch is making the news these days, I'm personally not impressed, but if they do make the news, there must be something in it.

You're most probably right, the employee feeling is more broad than Romania.

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