relocations

07.07.21

Relocated to Los Angeles and became Snap’s design director: Interview with Lidiya Bogdanovich

Lidiya Bogdanovich worked as a lead designer at Looksery, an Odesa-based startup that developed AR Lens technology for photos and videos. After Looksery acquired Snap Inc., Lidiya moved to Los Angeles and is now responsible for Lenses, a product developed

26.02.21

“There were no rose-colored glasses”: how a Ukrainian frontend programmer relocated in Amsterdam

For the last five years, Ukrainian frontend developer Natalia Tepluhina has been working at GitLab as a staff frontend engineer (a career level that comes after senior, if you don’t feel like going into management), working as a core member

28.12.20

How Ukrainian became World Bank’s first programmer in Washington DC, declined $167,000 offer from Amazon, and launched her own startup

In early December, a cover story in the popular American magazine Business Insider featured Ukrainian Anastasia Kholodova. She told the reporters how she had received an offer from Amazon, which many can only dream of, but declined it. Notably, not

21.10.20

Wargaming, a game development company, relocates about 300 employees from Minsk to Kyiv

As AIN.UA learned from several sources, Wargaming, a developer of the popular game World of Tanks, has moved about 200-300 employees to the Kyiv office. Officially, the company neither confirmed nor refuted this information. It is not yet known whether these employees

30.09.20

Ukraine simplifies immigration requirements for IT professionals

In July 2020, quotas for foreign IT professionals were introduced in Ukraine. They allow Ukrainian companies to register such employees (including individual entrepreneurs) under a simplified procedure. On September 21, the Ministry of Economy published amendments that slightly simplifies this