Why Poland?

Lingaro's global delivery capability spans the centers in Poland and the Philippines. Poland is strategically located in the very center of Europe and is a member state of the European Union. The country is well-known for its noble tradition in technical sciences, and more recently for its excellent IT professionals. Poland has one of the youngest populations in Europe and holds second place in the continent in terms of number of students. The country hosts 126 state and 301 private universities. The number of graduates in Information Technology and Telecommunications amounts to 40 thousand a year.

Polish IT graduates are earning a particularly good reputation abroad. It is well deserved and confirmed by the successes achieved in international computer programming competitions such as the prestigious Top Coder ranking, the worldwide Google Code Jam Competition and the IBM Linux Scholars Challenge.

The Poles are known for being hardworking and creative. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) , the Poles are the 2nd most hard-working nation. It is typical for Polish employees to fulfill several specialized roles and to create new solutions and overcome problems independently. Since in general the young Poles excel in technical tasks, there are more and more R&D or software development centers which get located in Poland. The companies which located such IT competency centers include Procter & Gamble, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, Siemens, Intel, Google, Tata, Wipro and Zensar. Polish IT specialists are sought after abroad too. They make up a large share of managers responsible for research and development activities at global companies. Silicon Valley high tech enterprises employ over 300 Polish IT engineers.

If you would like to learn more about the competencies and investments in Poland, please visit the website of the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency.