Business Week published this while I was bicycling across Switzerland. But it’s not like anything reported in the article has changed in three or four weeks.
Bucharest rivals Bangalore for availability of exceptionally gifted programmers at rock-bottom prices
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Feed: A Fistful of Euros
September 25th, 2006 at 11:43 am
Oh, yes. One of the very few positive legacies of the Ceausescu era: Romania has a strong technical tradition. Lots of good programs in math and engineering. Romanian HS kids tend to be very tech-y, much more so than Americans or Brits.
There’s a huge IT cluster out in Timisoara (near where Serbia, Romania and Hungary come together) — a lot of Italian and Dutch money.
But it’s not all that widely known, no.
Doug M.