certain companies offshore primarily older software products that use outdated technologies,.limited or no influence on the decisions made can trigger a passive attitude and some kind of a “learned helplessness” as a conviction that nothing can be changed,.often times employees have a very limited understanding of the bigger picture or anything that is outside their narrow field of focus,.rigidity of organizational processes and the role of hierarchy tends to impact individual creativity,.No doubt, these weaknesses of large corporations are controversial, and do not apply to all organizations, but we simply want to draw a more complete picture. Certain disadvantages of working for big organizations can propagate and influence the city’s talent pool. experiencing the culture of a global company.learning how large, global business works from within,.focus on the employee’s growth and development in comparison to smaller organizations where budgets might be more tight and training less engraved in the organization’s DNA,.opportunities for a temporary or even a permanent relocation abroad,.ability to move horizontally within the organization to learn different areas of operations,.unique perspective of working for large international brands,.Large companies have the power to influence the skills and experience of large groups of specialists and they often offer options not available at smaller organizations such as: Ultimately the benefits and gains for individuals, convert to the capacity of the entire talent pool of the city. Big Brothers’ benefits and downsidesįor many engineers, particularly the young ones, joining a large organization carries a number of advantages. This tells us that the big, foreign companies are here to stay and grow. By creating a software lab of 500 people here in Krakow, a company can save tens of millions of dollars per year in comparison to building a similar team back home. If you combine it with the low risk of setting up an office in the EU, it’s a bargain. Even if Polish developers are not as affordable as they used to be 10 years ago, the financial gain achieved with offshoring or nearshoring to Krakow is still significant. Check out our Krakow IT Market Report 2021 to learn more about Krakow talent pool characteristics, salaries and hiring practices.įoreign technology companies also come here for the possibility of building a larger team thanks to reduced operational and labor costs. With more than 45 000 IT professionals, Krakow is the second largest pool in Poland, after Warsaw and before Wroclaw. Large foreign companies come to Krakow attracted by the large IT talent pool. Just these 13 companies, having an average annual growth of a modest 5%, generate the demand for 550 engineers a year. As highlighted by our partner inhire.io and featured in our Krakow IT Market Report 2021, there are over 1 300 IT job postings in Krakow per quarter published on the four main IT job boards in Poland, including for developers, testers, consultants etc. Now, the demand is so significant, it seems any number of engineers can be hired by employers. courses (now there are over 15 of them in the city) it encouraged the engineers from other fields to try working as programmers, it helped persuade people from other Polish cities to come to Krakow, other businesses to open their offices here, etc. The high demand for engineers motivated universities to open more C.S. Back in the early 2000’s there weren’t really any large firms (except for Comarch) here and there was only a handful of foreign companies in Krakow. In fact, it has created the IT job market in Krakow, in the first place. To say that the presence of the large players influences the job market significantly is not enough. Instead of going straight to the list, let’s first have a look at three ways of how the big companies influence the local talent pool.Ĭheck out also: Krakow IT Market Report 2021 Growth and demand A great majority of them are foreign businesses, with six being American companies.
The 13 biggest companies employ roughly 11 000 engineers in Krakow. There’s a reason for it: Krakow’s IT landscape appears to be dominated by the large players. In a previous post, we looked into the Krakow start-up scene and today we are turning our eyes to the city’s largest software and IT companies.