That&#x27;s very much untrue. EDIT: I stand corrected - this misses the point.<p>Sure, wages are lower than elsewhere (especially Switzerland), but the quality of engineers in eastern europe is very high.<p>Case in point: Google Switzerland employs <i>lots</i> of eastern europeans <i>with Swiss-level wages</i>. That wouldn&#x27;t make any sense if the only reason was money.<p>EDIT: My math and electronics teachers (both women, data point) in my Swiss engineering school were Russian and Romanian. Their shared theory was that during communism teaching material was not written by teachers, but was written by topic experts (expert mathematicians were forced to write teaching books). It sucked for the experts (they were forced), but was great for students to have a book written by a master to study. Their point, not mine.