Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:10:27 +0200Moving across the big pond – Czech programmer Jakub Vrána prepares for his new job at Facebookhttps://english.radio.cz/moving-across-big-pond-czech-programmer-jakub-vrana-prepares-his-new-job-8560623© 2026 Radio Prague International At a conference in the US, the 33-year-old Czech programmer Jakub Vrána made quite an impression on developers from the well-known social networking site Facebook and became the first Czech to be hired by the company. Now, he is preparing to move across the ocean and set up a new life in California, near San Francisco, where Facebook's headquarters are located. Ahead of his departure from the Czech Republic, he speaks about what he is looking forward to and what he will miss, what the interviewing process was like and which of his projects he thinks caught the Facebook team’s attention. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/4f5197446b1f6808606b2a0aab5e5a67.png?timestamp=1583150525 Moving across the big pond – Czech programmer Jakub Vrána prepares for his new job at Facebook https://english.radio.cz/moving-across-big-pond-czech-programmer-jakub-vrana-prepares-his-new-job-8560623 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9