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St. Petersburg is known to be the educational and scientific
center in Russia with the highly qualified bright talents.
St. Petersburg's educational system provides a great number
of young talents looking for the perspective career opportunities.
Mathematical and Physics scientific schools are known all
over the World with its famous scientists and Nobel laureates.
The high qualification and talents of St. Petersburg software
developers are proved even at the IBM-sponsored International
Collegiate Computer Science Olympics. During the 11 years
of participation the teams of St. Petersburg State Institute
of Mechanics & Optics and Mathematical-Mechanical Faculty
of the St. Petersburg State University were among the first
ten. Moreover the team of St. Petersburg State University
was the first and the team of St. Petersburg State Institute
of Mechanics & Optics was the forth at Olympics in 2000
and 2001. A great number of Russian software developers
work in the large international companies.
Deficiency of IT professionals and high labor costs in
Europe and United States force numerous well-known IT companies
to consider the possibility of outsourcing of some parts
of their development processes to St. Petersburg software
companies and even to open their branches or R&D centers
in Saint Petersburg. Now St. Petersburg is the offshore
software development center of the Russian Federation.
As companies are becoming more frustrated especially by
the shortage of the IT professionals and the associated
rising costs, people become one of the most valuable resources,
especially those ones who are not only professionals in
a particular field but who are able to learn and improve
continuously. Companies are seeking not only for «the right
person to the right place» but for the opportunities to
organize their business and, hence, human resources in the
most flexible way. The technological changes are happening
so rapidly that both employer and employees are having a
tough time to keeping up.
Due to the active participation of St. Petersburg IT companies
and scientific institutions in the educational process of
software specialists, engineers and future scientists the
graduates of the St. Petersburg universities are able to
solve problems with high level of difficulty.
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