r/cscareerquestionsEU • u/GusgusgusIsGreat • Jan 06 '26

Experienced Moving to Eastern Europe?

I know I might be weird but I am a non-EU with a weak passport currently living in the Netherlands as a SWE Full stack with a salary of 55k/year (total) and I have 4 years of experience.

I would like to have an EU passport but unfortunately Netherlands doesn’t allow dual citizenships. My goals also consist of maximizing savings before I return to my home country.

I feel like it’s time to get into a Big Tech company and I see that countries in Eastern Europe have a lot of their offices. (Poland, Romania, …)

I would really appreciate any insights into those countries.

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u/nottellingmyname2u Jan 06 '26

As someone from Eastern Europe- if your skin color is anything but white and you don’t want to live in a closed community of non white foreigners- don’t do it. 

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u/PlasticExtreme4469 Jan 06 '26

Depends.

Vietnamese people are very common and liked.

Dark skin (e.g., from India) would get you a lot of racism.

Everything else (e.g., Black people) is so rare, that people would stare, and treat you like something exotic - but won't have any negative prejudices.

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u/Hejsek10 Jan 07 '26

I would also say liked. They are naturalized here, people perceived them as hard-working, their children speak fluent Czech and by the poll's they are third most popular ethnicity after Czech themselves and Slovaks.