Not sure how true this is. I'm based in dublin, and there's 40 people in final year engineering, plus about 100 in final year computer science, plus another 30 misc. final year students that will be looking for development positions from one university in Dublin. There's 4 major Irish universities in Dublin, and I'm in the smallest of them, so there's probably 900-1000 grads from CompSci/Software Engineering from just Dublin alone.
Add to that the pub standards meetups, where there's regularly 1-200 people there, and I know of plenty of other people that don't travel to the events. There's a large amount of talent in Dublin, and I would imagine all the other cities in Ireland too.
There are more people just in London than in all of Ireland. And London sucks in the ambitious and talented from the rest of the UK and to a lesser extent Ireland. It's also pretty accessible and attractive to the rest of the EU and not that hard to move to for most Commonwealth citizens.
And two of the world's top ten universities are in commuting distance. At a guess London's student population is larger than Ireland's too, and besides the aforementioned Oxford and Cambridge, London has two other top 100 universities, King's and Imperial.
The talent pool they'll be hiring from will probably be the EU anyway.
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Not sure how true this is. I'm based in dublin, and there's 40 people in final year engineering, plus about 100 in final year computer science, plus another 30 misc. final year students that will be looking for development positions from one university in Dublin. There's 4 major Irish universities in Dublin, and I'm in the smallest of them, so there's probably 900-1000 grads from CompSci/Software Engineering from just Dublin alone.
Add to that the pub standards meetups, where there's regularly 1-200 people there, and I know of plenty of other people that don't travel to the events. There's a large amount of talent in Dublin, and I would imagine all the other cities in Ireland too.
There are more people just in London than in all of Ireland. And London sucks in the ambitious and talented from the rest of the UK and to a lesser extent Ireland. It's also pretty accessible and attractive to the rest of the EU and not that hard to move to for most Commonwealth citizens.
And two of the world's top ten universities are in commuting distance. At a guess London's student population is larger than Ireland's too, and besides the aforementioned Oxford and Cambridge, London has two other top 100 universities, King's and Imperial.
The talent pool they'll be hiring from will probably be the EU anyway.