[Rinzler89]

Out of curiosity, can you share some examples from eastern Europe? Where does one find such websites?

Also, IMHO, blanket generalizations like "Asia" and "Eastern Europe" in such contexts can actually be more offensive than just mentioning the one country where the thing happens since you're basically painting with tar a whole sub-continent with dozens of different countries, just for the things happening in one country.

What I mean is, if by Eastern Europe, you actually mean some dodgy Russian forums, I think a lot of Eastern Europeans from Bulgaria all the way to Poland and the Baltics might feel offended of being included since we are not the same.

[kidintech]

No, because I feel like mentioning previous employers AND mentioning the languages I speak would get quite specific.

You are interested in Eastern Europe, so you should be familiar with olympiads; ask around any circle of ex-olympiad participants and you are bound to find something.

I am not sorry if you took offense; you're either from one of these countries and are clueless to the circles that exist next to you, or you are not from one of these countries and are trying to be offended on behalf of others.

[Rinzler89]

>ask around any circle of ex-olympiad participants and you are bound to find something.

Obviously I'm not a golfer.

[johnnyanmac]

Yeah, there's also the implication here that Americans rarely cheat. They aren't as public because English is under a microscope, but there are definitely answer banks if you know the right person and can fork over the cash.

If it's anything like High School/College, the sad part is these kinds of people could probably do well in interviews regardless. These answer banks are simply the difference between an A and an A+. And sadly the current market seems to only want A+ candidates. Who's fault is it really?

[Rinzler89]

> And sadly the current market seems to only want A+ candidates.

You mean the current FAANG market paying top dollar. I know plenty of unknown companies taking B candidates because they aren't paying top dollar (in Europe at least)

>Who's fault is it really?

The governments and central banks for devaluing the currency post-2008 with their zero interest rates, causing the value of savings and wages to plummet and the value of assets, housing and stonks to skyrocket, causing people to chase get rich quick schemes on the stock market and on the jobs market. Coupled with the VC promoting for an unsustainable growth (more like pump and dump) of so called "tech companies" who's products were not economically viable from the get go, they just survived on zero-interest money and fake promises, artificially boosting the demand for SW workers casing many young people to go into tech just to chase money, money that's now gone and so is the demand for coders.

Without this artificial demand for devs caused by zero rates and overhype in the tech industry of financially unsustainable products that were banking on skirting the local laws (AirBnB, Uber, etc), then those people chasing money would have went into finance or investment banking to chase money there instead of causing a huge backlog of candidates in tech. Just my 0.02$

[johnnyanmac]

> I know plenty of unknown companies taking C-/B+ candidates because they aren't paying top dollar.

in my experience: not these days. And I work in games, so "top dollar" was never in question.

>My 0.02$

That's a fair take. Tech in some ways was indeed a necessity with a huge reach, so I don't think the overhype was the difference between being a trillion dollar industry and a million dollar one. But tech would probably still be a billion dollar industry without all the factors you mentioned.

Games... well, stability was never a factor, and I knew that going in. It's a shame they are doing the exact same pump and dump schemes tech has fallen into. And it's not like layoffs were uncommon after a project finished; it's just that they are doing it purely for better looking earnings call instead of "we cannot keep funding studios anymore".