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Could you also tell what you did in Switzerland and what you do now in this "developing" country? Power-distance or empathy to foreigners is no different to Ge
by s3nnyy 11y ago
Could you also tell what you did in Switzerland and what you do now in this "developing" country?
Power-distance or empathy to foreigners is no different to Germany, at least in Zurich.
Switzerland can't be that bad as a place for software engineers:
1) Google placed the biggest software engineering office outside the US into Zurich.
2) The ETH is the only place except for Oxford and Cambridge that can compete with top-US schools.
- Inthenameofmine 11y agoWe do Bitcoin and Blockchain development [1]. Full stack JS and Go. Founded the company a year ago, we're now 17 full time employees, fully bootstrapped. Equity and cash flow with several US based startups. Not to mention that we're now finishing projects international teams located in Switzerland weren't able to pull off. As a side note, half of the team we replaced in Switzerland were from the ETH and Lausanne. Our interns here get more work done than those guys! It's completely surreal, which is why I felt so strongly about your comment. I got a US Engineering degree from RIT, when I got back to to Switzerland I couldn't even get responses to waiter jobs, let alone programming. That said, I'm first generation Swiss with a non-Swiss name, they probably didn't even look at my CV. I know people with similar stories in the industry, most of them in the Ukraine and Thailand actually. [1] https://bitsapphire.com/ https://bitsapphire.com/
- s3nnyy 11y agoDid you grow up in the US? I can totally imagine that people have issues adopting anywhere in Europe, as the culture here is not better or worse but just different. I have a CS degree from a top-CS school in Europe. I would also not get jobs in the US, because no one knows anything but Oxford overseas.