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Re:Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service by cambalache on Thursday November 05, 2020 @09:30PM (#25004309)
No catch, they only want to "capture" SV engineers. So if you work for Google in San Francisco and you convince your bosses you can work 3 months from Helsinki legally and hopefully for Finland form a company there or meet a Finn and bring them back to the US with you.
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Re:Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service by tarruda on Thursday November 05, 2020 @09:48PM (#25004402)
> meet a Finn and bring them back to the US with you

Can you elaborate on this part?

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Re:Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service by cambalache on Friday November 06, 2020 @09:41AM (#25007872)
Mr Johnny Boy, a Google engineer with 10 years of experience goes to Helsinki with this program, he loves the place but 3 months later he returns to San Francisco, 6 months later he quits Google and founds a start-up. He remembers about Linus, a young Finn who he met there and who is a OS wizard. He hires Linus as a his # 1 employee.2 years later the company is doing great so they open their European branch in... Helsinki.
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Re:Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service by sulam on Thursday November 05, 2020 @10:51PM (#25004715)
Perhaps trying to balance the “capture” of SV engineers? We wouldn’t want the world to fall over if the population balance got out of whack, right?
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