Ask HN: Consequences of the Russia-Ukraine War in the software industry?

One thing that is possible in the event of a war is relocation of the talent in neighboring countries. A small case in point - in Bulgaria there is a small but growing number of Turkish people in the IT. The ones I have talked with don't like the political situation in Turkey.

Which war? Russia will invade and annect the Donbass, as they did with the Krim, and dozens of times before with most of their neighbors. There will be an election and the Russian majority in the Donbass will agree to the "friendly" annection.

Kiev and the SW industry will stay unaffected, and there's no SW industry in the Donbass, only coalmines.

EPAM systems has/had Byelorussian offshore operations I believe. I dont know to what extent though.

EPAM Systems Locations

Gomel Belarus

Grodno Belarus

Minsk Belarus

Mogilev Belarus

Viciebsk Belarus

Putin and people around him would be heavily sanctioned including Byelarus.

I’ve worked with talent from epam and their engineering is top of class. It’s sad that many may suffer the consequences of Putin invades.

the biggest I can think of is for companies that outsource to Ukraine. Other than that I dont really see this conflict affecting software industry in the USA. Maybe cyberattacks incidents increase.

Possibly huge as it increases the chance for a global conflict in the coming years.