VMware employees share why they decided to come back to Bulgaria and what it feels like to be back home after years of building life and career abroad.
Back to the Source is VMware Bulgaria online career event for people interested in the opportunities in the IT sector in Bulgaria
Boris Savov has been working as a senior dev at SAP and decided to relocate together with his family to France. Things were working out pretty good for him, but not so much for his family. Not speaking the language fluently was an obstacle for his wife’s dentist practice. Their daughter, at high school then, wasn’t satisfied with what she found in her French school. They stayed in France for 2 years and then decided to come back. Living here has its own downsides, says Boris, but ultimately my standard of living here is higher – you can go out more frequently and even the taxes are lower.
Yordan Karadzhov has dedicated 12+ years to experimental physics, completing a Ph.D. in particle physics and working at Geneva University for 6 years. In 2017 he came back to Bulgaria with his family and an intention to explore a new professional field – machine learning. He chose VMware as the next step in his journey and became an open-source engineer instead. Yordan says that the VMware Open Source team won him over with the complexity of problems they solve.
Yordan has been living in Bulgaria and working at VMware for 3 years. He likes the fact that in Bulgaria he can enjoy a rich social life, go out frequently and overall have a high standard of living. Being at home, surrounded by people sharing the same history and mentality matters, it’s never the same abroad, you feel a foreigner, says Yordan.
Nikolay Boshnakov studied and worked in France for 9 years and then came back to Bulgaria 7 years ago. He learned from his friends that Bulgaria offered interesting career opportunities in the IT sector and a good standard of living. One summer, while on vacation here applied in VMware Bulgaria. He got an offer and shortly after moved back to Bulgaria. Nikolay believes that Bulgaria offers great development opportunities, especially in the IT sector. He enjoys being able to work on challenging projects and the flexibility VMware offers.
Ivan Vatov did his Master’s program in Germany. One day he visited a career event similar to Back to the Source to meet with a friend there. He wasn’t aiming to apply for a job, but exchanged his contacts and sent his CV to the VMware recruitment team. Shortly after he got a phone call from VMware. The interview process happened fully remote. He got offered the job while he was considering going back to Bulgaria to live with his girlfriend.
He’s living in Bulgaria and working for VMware for 5 years now. Ivan is very happy with his professional development and loves the fact that he’s home. Some of his friends has returned too and he can see his future in Bulgaria.
Back to the Source is an yearly free online career event where you can learn about the hottest technology challenges that VMware employees are tackling and hear about the positive impact on Bulgaria’s economy and quality of life.
Our colleagues share their experience of being back home after years of building a life and career abroad.
