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Maybe it is the physical proximity to artistic Italy. I don`t understand how a clearly Alemanni / Germanic culture like the majority of the Swiss managed to get
by s3nnyy 11y ago
Maybe it is the physical proximity to artistic Italy. I don`t understand how a clearly Alemanni / Germanic culture like the majority of the Swiss managed to get world-wide known for things like "Helvetica" or the "Swiss Railway clock".
Besides my main job as a software engineer, I work as a tech-recruiter in Zurich and I observe that the more work is frontend-heavy the less it is subject to being outsourced as it is usually closer to the client.
If you look for a tech-job in Switzerland, check out my story "8 reasons why I moved to Switzerland to work in IT" on https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-to-switzerland-to-work-in-it-c7ac18af4f90 https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t... or send me a mail to the address in my HN-profile.
- ucaetano 11y agoThose same things have a very utilitarian, engineered flavor to them, that's a major part of the appeal. Instead of over-decoration and serifs, they carry clean, minimal lines and optimize for clarity and readability. That is, in some ways, a centerpiece of Swiss (and Germanic) culture. Also, you need to remember that germanic cultures gave us all the Dutch Old Masters, Bauhaus, not to mention Mozart, Beethoven & co.
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- klausjensen 11y agoGreat blog post with a lot of information I was wondering about.
- myle 11y agoIn Zurich at least there are many big companies (Google, ibm, banks) which recruit engineers and most of them do not do front end work.
- s3nnyy 11y agoAt Google (Zürich) there is for sure some frontend work; if you're unlucky it is GWT, if you're lucky it is Typescript.