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[sam_lowry_]

They never publicly announced how many employees they had in Russia, but I heard informally that they have over 5000 people there, mostly in the Saint Petersburg offices.

5000 employees with family members... even if many of them choose to quit, that's a lot of people to move across the border that can close any time.

[Aissen → sam_lowry_]

From my estimates it's probably closer to 1500. They have 1900 employees worldwide: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/annualreport-2022/

[sam_lowry_ → Aissen]

Thanks for the link. Indeed, looking at the their buildings in SpB [1], 1500 looks more reasonable.

2 towers, 8 floors, max 100 people at each floor = 1600. And they clearly built the towers with extra capacity in mind.

Still... knowing how difficult it was for 10x smaller PandaDoc to evacuate from Belarus in similar circumstances in 2020, I wish them all the luck.

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/company/contacts/st-petersburg/