Lyft opening an office in Ukraine?
I came across this article that says Lyft will hire 80 software engineers in Ukraine: https://dou.ua/forums/topic/33628/?from=fpnews Lyft people: is this true? Does this mean geographic expansion, or more on the lines of cutting costs?
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Looking at this pic, it says R&D, so seems like cutting costs.
Ukraine (and Belarus before the recent political shitshow) are pretty decent when it comes to talent. I would say it’s on par with EU if not better, but definitely cheaper and with political risks
I think this office is primarily created to relocate employees from Minsk. Due to political instability a lot of tech companies are relocating from Belarus
This didn’t age well
Good talent, cheap labor
Cost cutting
We've opened eng offices in Kiev and Mexico City recently. It's a bit of cost cutting but these markets are actually pretty good labor wise since it's not saturated with a ton of other tech cos like India. Mexico also has the added benefit of similar time zone.
Lyft is diversifying by entering lard market?