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Well if you are Australian you are fcuked everywhere. What company is going to want to hire a Australian developer who can be pressured into secretly inserting a backdoor into your software?

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The same company that would outsource IT to India?

Really terrible companies, in short.

Every major tech company has workers in India.

At one point, I worked on a lawsuit involving a firm that had entirely outsourced its IT to India. There was literally nobody left in the US who knew how stuff worked. I don't know, in retrospect, whether that was pathetic, or utterly clever.

The long term results finally catching up to the short term thinking?

Wonder if whoever did the initial short term "lets outsource it!" thinking had moved on by the stage the lawsuit happened?

I was working for people who were suing them, so mainly it created problems in discovery. Compelling testimony of non-citizens/non-residents was a lot harder, I gather.

Well, I'm a British Citizen who got an Australian citizenship.

I guess I'll forfeit them both and just... go some where else?

Well Captain Nemo, I have heard this part of the story before...

To the seas!

You can still travel and work across europe for now, as long as a brexit deal is reached. You have a fine startup scene in the baltic, crazy startup in Paris and Berlin (tbh, it'll be easier in germany right now), you have really professinnal, interesting companies in the Netherlands, Lille or Hambourg if your thing is devops/non-web dev. With the AI4EU project, you can also land a job building tools for machine learning[1]. We have plenty of oportunities here.

[1] Honestly, it'll mostly be integrating different ML opensource solutions together and maybe some FOSS contribution from what i've seen.

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