The first recruitments are starting, between 20 and 30 engineers. Thereafter, nearly 200 extra appointments will take place. Researchers will be able to devote 20% of their working time to their own computer projects, projects that Google will be able to exploit afterwards.
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Indeed, the initiative is causing a certain number of worries among the Polish companies of computing, programming and research. They expect an important brain drain. Indeed, Google announced the opening of a real hunt for “super-brains”. The site of Cracow was selected according to the needs, of course: “For us, one of the most important criteria is the fact that Cracow is the center of many large schools and consequently offers the possibility to find the best specialists” explains A

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