Yes I can confirm this too. From our brief conversations, most of them didnt enjoy it but do it for the money (like me).

>> It's not only Russia, either, which I find to be a bizarre point of focus here. I find female colleagues are far more likely to be from India, China, or Taiwan than any western nation.

Where are you currently based? In the UK (and this is a BBC article) I don't see many (or any really) female tech workers from the countries you mention but lots from Russia and easter Europe.

Not the parent but I have worked for half a dozen tech companies around the US and they're mostly Indian/Chinese/White.

Thanks, I would have assumed that (and wasn't disputing it). I was just trying to point out to the parent that his experience may not apply everywhere and considering it's a BBC article the UK perspective might be useful to understand why their focus is Russia and not those other nations.

> It's not only Russia, either, which I find to be a bizarre point of focus here

That's still repercussions of calling Russia the whole USSR.

Now most post-Soviet republic are kind of shadowed.