Yes but they do vary in how they catch up with the developed world levels of compensation. Warsaw developer here - the IT job market here definitely feels the effects of the UK opening their market, not to mention local hiring by companies like Google (they have offices in Cracow & the more recently opened in Warsaw.) Curiously, not a lot of people seem to leave for greener pastures in Germany.

That's the thing, Romanians are also natural born 'poets', i.e. lateral thinkers. There is a lot to be said about Romania, place of real cultural confluence, turks, germans, hugarians, soviets, greek-ortodox, communist yet latin background, etc. It's not just about the codding.

I'm sorry, but everyone expects 'smart & gets things done' not poets with cultural confluence of whatever.

What does matter is expertise, skills and learning, all other staff is completely irrelevant. (See http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/TSE.2009...)