I recently received an offer from Amazon Alexa team in gdansk, Poland. How's Alexa team in terms of quality, people and wlb? Anyone who has moved to Poland or lives there , how's the life and IT culture in Poland? YOE : 1.5 Current TC : almost nothing
You're moving from the US to Poland? Are you polish?
I'm from India.
What's the polland Tc like?
It's 170k pln
@op Not bad for Poland... But still that's not enormous. Now it will open the door of Europe for you. I've seen some people from India applying directly for the London office (which I would suggest), did you try to do the same?
It's Amazon. Don't expect WLB. Have you got any information about living in Poland? Be careful of where you visit in that country
Well not much but recruiter and hiring manager did give some information about it and anyway work visa process is so slow so I've tons of time for research
Two friends of mine originally from Bangladesh went to Warsaw as tourists. They went to a wrong place in town. A group of people started mocking their accent. Threw stones and objects at them, and then chase them across street for a block. A word of advice, be careful where you wonder around. Ask local people about areas that foreigners should avoid. Maybe Gdansk would be safer.
Poland is a conservative country. Don’t move if you are lgbt
Are you sure you want to move to Poland for 170k PLN? I know nothing about Poland, but according to Google that TC~31L INR. You can get that or close to that in India itself for 1.5 yoe. You will probably save more in India & have more opportunities in case you want to switch.
I had a team in Gdansk for Alexa. Good group of engineers but don't count on good wlb. That said, it was close to 5 years ago
At this initial stage of career I'm not worried about wlb. Thanks!
What did you do finally? Did you join? How is the place. I am asking as even i have an offer to move to Poland.
I joined remotely (it's been 2 months) and visit Poland once corona is over, team is very friendly and I don't see a toxic culture generally blind talks about it Regards to Amazon. Work culture also seems to be good so far.
how did it go after staying there for one year? Appreciate if you could share your thoughts
That is because Amazon PL was established as a Polish company. They were doing text-to-speech. Amazon bought them.
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I can't help you at all, but I'm curious how the tech scene is in Gdansk. I was there for 3 days, and it is hard for me imagine what life outside the tourism industry there.
Tech scene not that great, but there is a bunch of options. It's one of the fastest growing countries in Europe now as well