JetBrains won’t say how many of its 1,900 employees are affected, but last April it announced a 1,000-desk campus expansion in St. Staff who won’t move to the Czech Republic or elsewhere will be let go. JetBrains, the Prague-based company that owns Android’s key coding language and which is run by two Russian billionaires, Sergey Dmitriev and Valentin Kipyatkov, shuttered its Russia offices in March. Other companies have taken a harder line. Bukhman has no plans to pull out of Russia but says Playrix has already helped around 10% of his 1,500 Russian staff relocate abroad. It’s difficult for us to make decisions, but we must do it.”Īt the same time, tens of thousands of Russian tech workers-who either oppose the war or have found that sanctions and Russian internet restrictions have made it impossible to work-have decamped to Armenia, Georgia and Turkey.
We only ask that we leave at least a few channels as a space for business communication,” Bukhman told staff in a note. “We do not forbid anyone to express their opinion publicly. Some employees were furious at least one quit. At first the brothers urged an end to “political” discussions company moderators then started deleting posts about the war before shutting down the Slack channels entirely. Over the next few days, these spats spun into “outbursts of uncontrolled hatred between employees,” Bukhman says. You didn’t wake up at five in the morning to an incredible ‘boom.’ ” After a few swapped jokes, a Ukraine-based employee hit back: “It’s probably easy and fun for you. Even as hundreds of their colleagues scrambled for safety, clashes between Playrix staff broke out on Slack. “We won’t be able to continue working the way we worked before, but I think we will be able to continue working in Ukraine.”īut the pair soon found themselves on the back foot again. Bukhman says the payment reassured staff about the company’s stability and supported not just Ukrainians on the front lines but Russians hit by the collapse of the ruble. In the next two days they set up hotlines to help employees evacuate, and 48 hours later paid a bonus equivalent to a month’s salary to their entire 4,000-person workforce, including the 1,500 in Russia.
Hours into the invasion the brothers put their Ukrainian staff on paid leave.
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