Thousands of Silicon Valley workers live in cars because of too expensive housing

Cars are no longer a means of transportation. In California, the median home price is a record $ 600, and car overnight stays are commonplace. In one of the Slate articles, journalists noted the increase in the number of people living in cars on the West Coast of America, and ...

How to get to work in Google without experience and with a Russian diploma

Evgeny Krasko, a YouTube programmer, told Victoria Borodina about Russian diplomas, interviews and work in the United States. Evgeny is from Yekaterinburg, after graduation he entered ITMO at the Department of Computer Technologies and moved to Petersburg. After 2 years he transferred to the Department of Higher Mathematics, and ...

Why San Francisco is just a sandbox compared to New York

Anton Gerasimenko, co-founder of the Anryze call tracking service, told vc.ru about why a startup is more efficient to develop in a metropolis rather than in a Valley. How it all began We came to New York from Kiev after we were selected for the third group of acceleration Starta Accelerator. ...

The valley of comfort: how life is different in Silicon Valley and the rest of the country

Russian developer Anton Popov who moved to the United States told vc.ru about the American mentality and the gap between the center of the IT industry and the rest of the country. In October 2015, for work, I moved from St. Petersburg to California. The company helped in the paperwork, paid for the flight and reimbursed some ...

Politico: How Silicon Valley turned into a spy den

Spies here are “very much a part of everyday life,” a former US intelligence official told the author. The open business culture of Silicon Valley has contributed to the emergence of a new, “soft,” unconventional espionage, the main goal of which is trade secrets and technology, writes Politico journalist Zach Dorfman, translated by InoPressa.…

Personal experience: why Belarusian programmers no longer want to work in the US

Mathematician Artem Tsai, a graduate of Vitebsk State University and graduate school of the Belarusian State University, has been living in California for the last 9 years. He told about his life to the dev.by portal. Artem went there as part of a Minsk startup bought out by the American corporation NetGear. The team has successfully applied peer-to-peer networks for ...

How to live in Silicon Valley: a walk through the city

Silicon Valley, often mistakenly called “Silicon”, is the center of information technology and the heart of world progress. The central offices and R&D laboratories of most leading corporations are located here: IBM, Apple, HP, Oracle, Google and many others. Most Internet services appeared here: YouTube, Evernote...

Personal experience: how to restart in the Silicon Valley business incubator after a failure

Inspired by the successful experience of the call-back system (a service for ordering a call back through the company's website) in Russia, entrepreneurs Dmitry Kozhevnikov and Denis Rodionov launched a similar system, Bounce Help, in the USA. But they refused to buy the product. The guys were trained in the Alchemist Accelerator in Silicon ...

Silicon Valley Real Estate: the ruins of a house sold for a million dollars

Real estate prices in Silicon Valley are so high that even millionaires feel like middle class here, and top managers of venture capital and technology companies plan to leave. According to Ain.ua, Seattle Times Real Estate journalist Mike Rosenberg decided to clarify the situation and showed the house ...

Why Russian programmers champions do not want to Silicon Valley

Russian students again won the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). This year, the World Cup and the winners' medals were brought home by a total of four universities: Moscow State University. Lomonosov Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, ITMO and the Ural Federal University. Russian teams participate in ICPC ...

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