Comments on: Opera opens new office in Prague

By: héhéhé

héhéhé — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:18:26 +0000

When will you come in Paris!!!

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:33:21 +0000

@fearphage: I saw that in my feedreader too and wondered the same thing.

@junkeR: Nope. I was acutally on vacation last week.

By: Sesivany

Sesivany — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:18:35 +0000

No, he wasn’t. America is quite far from the Czech republic. I think he can’t be everywhere

By: junkeR

junkeR — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:07:05 +0000

I didn’t see Daniel Goldman in the pictures… was he at this party, too?

By: Michal Stankoviansky

Michal Stankoviansky — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:11:46 +0000

@Jonny: 4 hours with Opera Mini isn’t bad at all, I use it at every possible occassion, when I have to wait somewhere, be it a bus, line for a lunch or whatever I did have a look at the Prague jobs page immediately, but none of the positions seemed suitable for me, so…maybe some other time. I hope those Slovak guys are really good Thanks.

By: Jonny Axelsson

Jonny Axelsson — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:40:09 +0000

No, ironically localisation is something that doesn’t have to be local (you just need knowledge of the target region). Some offices are primarily sales offices, it is an advantage to be close to your customers, others are development offices, yet others are a mix. The Prague office is a development office, focused on future phones and devices. Of course they could work in another office as well, but many (and that includes me) may prefer working in Prague than in e.g. Oslo. That the travel time to Oslo HQ, including airports and local transport is less than five hours, and there are several flights daily, is not a disadvantage either.

By: junkeR

junkeR — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:19:20 +0000

What exactly do the new offices do? Localize Opera for that region of the world..?

By: Jonny Axelsson

Jonny Axelsson — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:41:03 +0000

Hello, Michal and BB, is it OK if I call you Jozef? Yesterday our second Slovak joined Prague Opera. That means that 1/3 of our office is actually Slovak (if you leave me out to make things more complicated). So do have a look at the jobs page. The more Slovaks the merrier (it also means I will have to brush up my Slovak comprehension skills, but that is probably good for me). Serious, have you seen this link? 4 hours and 17 minutes on the train isn't too bad with Opera Mini in hand, or a PC and a UMTS connection. Of course with a real high-speed train it would take around an hour, but there is no indication that would happen any decade near us.

By: serious

serious — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:42:33 +0000

*waiting for an office in vienna*

By: fearphage

fearphage — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:28:39 +0000

Briefly there was a press release about an office opening in Mexico and Canadia. It was taken down. Any word on that?

By: Midnite

Midnite — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:16:46 +0000

Another man from Slovakia wishing work for Opera..

By: BB

BB — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:46:11 +0000

yop yop same here 2 comments = 2 slovak programmers :D

By: Case

Case — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:43:17 +0000

Some more photos from me: http://my.opera.com/Case_/albums/show.dml?id=463543
And bilingual blogpost about the party (basically it’s just saying how great Opera guys and Jon von Tetzchner were ): http://case.ic.cz/?p=507

By: Michal Stankoviansky

Michal Stankoviansky — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:19:25 +0000

Wow, I almost had a heart attack when I saw the title, Opera can’t get any closer to me (I’m in Slovakia) than this… And working for Opera could be really exciting… Well, maybe some other time.

I wish the Prague team all the best.

And now, get to work