Intel to hire several hundred programmers in Romania

World's biggest microprocessor manufacturer, whose business stands at 35 billion dollars, has chosen Romania for a software centre.

US-based Intel, a giant with 35 billion dollars in revenues will open a software development centre in Bucharest next week, the first in Europe to be developed from the ground up. Recruitment ads published on Intel's website reveal that the US company will hire several dozen people at first, mainly programmers. Development scenarios applied by Intel so far show that such centres quickly expand to several hundred employees, which will most likely happen in Romania, too.
Intel officials would not provide any comment on the opening of the software centre before its official inauguration next week.
The decision of Intel, one of the biggest 70 US companies reveals Romania remains a top destination in terms of services or software development centres, ten years after the first wave of IT companies started recruiting on this market.
"The trigger of the massive IT investments in Romania was the decision to drop the tax on programmers' incomes, and the former Intel chairman of the board Craig Barrett played a key part in this, with his statements and his lobbying," says Varujan Pambuccian, member of the IT&C Committee of the Chamber of Deputies.