Serbia is an increasingly popular destination for foreign IT companies. As an attractive destination, it has been chosen by giants such as IBM, “Rivian”, “Luxoft”, “Yandex”, “Epic Games”, and the last company in the series that will do so is “Databricks”.
“We are pleased to announce the opening of the ‘Databricks’ development center in Belgrade. The new location in Serbia will join our existing R&D centers in Amsterdam, Bangalore, Berlin, San Francisco and Seattle, playing a key role in the future trajectory of our product expansion and engineering “, this company’s statement reads.
As IT experts point out, Serbia is becoming a desirable environment for the development of information technologies, and in the future we will see positive changes on the Serbian scene, caused by the arrival of large companies from this industry.
“All these companies that are coming are all highly developed companies with the latest technologies, which gives our people in IT the opportunity to learn, work and improve on them. We have a very qualified workforce, solidly balanced in terms of seniority, with good knowledge of the English language, which are very important factors when the companies themselves decide which country they will come to,” Đorđe Vukotić, head of sales and operations at the “Joberty” company said.
As Vukotić adds, the time zone we are in is not a negligible fact either, because “we are quite suitable for companies from the east coast of the USA, and for western Europe, so we are more centrally located than some markets in Central Asia, which can be a kind of competition”.
As “Databricks” announced, 15 new jobs will soon be created, and this company previously cooperated with the electric car manufacturer, “Rivian”, which opened its technological development center in New Belgrade at the end of last year, with the plan to employs more than 1,000 people.
Serbia has long been attractive in the IT sector
As internet consultant Dragan Varagić said, the very history of IT development in Serbia in the last 50 years is such that “by the nature of the way information technologies are used, we are interesting all over the world”.
He states that this applies especially to the period from the 2000s onwards, and that “remote” work was known even before the corona virus. A good structure of engineering skills, Varagić points out, enables Serbia to be an attractive destination for the IT industry.
When asked whether the arrival of an increasing number of foreign companies will change the Serbian scene, and to what extent, Varagić says that for more than ten years there has been an increase in the number of companies that are starting to come, or people from here work for them abroad.
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