While some successful businessmen decide to leave Argentina or, as happens with some international companies, seek to settle in the City of Buenos Aires, globant, he argentinian unicorn Dedicated to software engineering for 10 years, he has just inaugurated an intelligent building in Tandil, Province of Buenos Aires. What led its creators to settle in a town in the interior of the province.
globant It has offices in 12 cities in Argentina. And one of its founders, Guilbert Englebienne, explained in the networks the “federal strategy” of the company. “I studied my career as a systems engineer in Tandil and the same day that I defended my thesis I left the city with a moving truck. Despite training good professionals, Tandil had no opportunities. I migrated to Buenos Aires that same afternoon to develop a professional career”, he affirmed. And he added that, from the beginning, the company set out to create “a company that allowed people to live where they wanted” and that’s why they went “to every place where we could see a sufficient amount of talent.”
“People asked me: ‘Why in Tandil?’ and I answered: ‘Why not?’”, Englebienne said. He also told that for the creation of the new building they launched an international architecture competition in which more than 100 projects were presented. And that the chosen one reflects the sustainable vision of the company, since it is one of the first four buildings in the country certified as LEED Platinum (the highest in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), and the first outside the City of Buenos Aires.
Another reason is that, as he explained, business growth and the increase in young people studying Exact in the city are more than relevant. Although it is also likely that “cheap labor” will have an influence, which is why many foreign companies look for labor in South America. And he concluded: “the day we laid the foundation stone, I realized that the lot where we would build the The building was adjacent to the place where I had lived throughout my career and from where I had gone to Buenos Aires that day, with the moving truck”.
This operation is not the only one, but it is in line with the trend among computer companies, which are seeking to develop new technological “hubs” in the interior of the country.
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