How to grow by 30% during the war. Taras Kitsmey-About SoftServe Strategy, Taxes of Ukrainians in Poland and IT industry 10 years in 10 years

In addition, IT exports are independent of ports and railways, so the only inconvenience for the sector was the restriction of the NBU, which is due to which the actual salary of almost 300,000 specialists involved in it has decreased by 10%, relative to the street exchange rate. Video day but there are problems too. The main thing is to convince new customers that the war will not prevent the developers from fulfilling the order.

How to do it? Taras Kitsme, co -founder and member of the SoftServe Directors, has a response. SoftServe is the second largest IT company with development in Ukraine, by DOU. According to Forbes Ukraine, in 2021 it received about 9 billion UAH of revenue. Prior to the war, about 90% of its specialists worked at the Ukrainian Office of SoftServe. Now - less. Some were rebel to Central Europe, and softsern has large plans for the development of centers in South America.

What will be the Ukrainian IT after the war, where to pay taxes to our migrants and why a weekly business trip will not help IT companies, read in a big interview with Kitsme for HB business. You are one of the oldest market participants about the consequences of war and fighting for order. How would you describe the situation in which the Ukrainian IT is now? Let's look at the story. The IT industry of Ukraine has been developing very cool for the last 20 years.

Annual growth by 25-30% is a phenomenal result. Even during the war, if you look at recent research, the IT industry revenue has increased by 23%over the last half of the year. That is, IT is one of the few industries in Ukraine, which operates at full capacity even now. Of course, the war influenced and greatly influenced. But IT copes with these challenges. There are several reasons for. The first is in the global Ait markets and continues to grow.

And second, the IT industry is essentially virtual enterprises, the formation of which has ended in the KOVID era. We have many people who have virtually interviews, salary definition, involvement in the project. They work in a kind of virtual office where there is everything. That is, any stop, despite the war, in virtually no? So. The greatest challenge for us is the relaxation of people.

In the first weeks, we evacuated about 3200 families from the center and the east of Ukraine - west and 1800 - abroad. It was not easy, but they coped. You have changed the following question a little. I suggested that there was a certain crisis because of the war, and crisis accelerate changes. Therefore, it is wondering what processes the war has accelerated. The influence of war is of course. The first, greatest influence is the reaction of customers.

When the war began, on the one hand, everyone came with great understanding. During the relaxation, a week or two, they were quite condescending to the timing of orders. Because it is impossible to evacuate from Kharkiv to Lviv and to program during relaxation. On the other hand, today new customers are in no hurry to transfer contracts to Ukraine. They have a choice: you can work in Poland, Bulgaria, India, Mexico.

Why are they going to the country where the war goes? As a result, this also affected the labor market. What is your recipe for solving this problem? We have a very simple recipe - diversification. With the outbreak of the war, we have started to develop much more active development centers outside Ukraine. It is Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Latin America. Poland has become very "hot" in terms of development. In Bulgaria, in addition to the center in Sofia, we opened two more - in Burgas and Varna.