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Some Swiss IT-highlights include: - The biggest Google software engineering office outside California (around 2000 employees). - Logitec, Microsoft, IBM, Cisc

by s3nnyy 10y ago

Some Swiss IT-highlights include: - The biggest Google software engineering office outside California (around 2000 employees). - Logitec, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco - ETH university - Many ETH-spinoff/startups: Doodle, Bitspin (bought by Google), Teralytics, Archilogic, Fashwell, Getyourguide, Numbrs and I surely forgot many others. It is a great place to live and is the only place where net-salaries are on par with New York / SF. Salaries are in the range of 7000 - 10.000 CHF / month after taxes. However apartments can be way cheaper than in San Francisco. You find more on Zurich from me here: 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... Also, if you have a EU-passport, you can find my email address in my HN-handle.

nickpsecurity 10y ago
ETH has cranked out all kinds of good, practical research. They were also the birthplace, via Wirth et al, of safe and efficient languages for systems programming.
chrisper 10y ago
I do have an EU-passport, but I do not know what an HN-handle is.
- branchan 10y ago
  If you click on his name 's3nnyy', you will see his profile. He has his email listed there.
gaius 10y ago
The biggest Google software engineering office outside California (around 2000 employees). Makes sense, Switzerland is a major tax haven.
- s3nnyy 10y ago
  When they decided to make Zurich the Google tech-hub in Europe I can assure you that taxes were not the main driver. One of the big guys at Google at that time studied at ETH and therefore knew the place is full of talent. Also, the Zurich is more or less in the geographic center of Europe. So is Munich, Germany, but would a French or Italian programming prodigy move to Germany? Maybe, but maybe not. The probability of different people to move to (neutral) Switzerland is higher so it is a natural place to attract talent from all over Europe.
  - chrisper 10y ago
    Hey, I sent you an e-mail, but haven't gotten a response. Not sure if I sent it at the correct one? iwang -at - fastmail dot net

by s3nnyy 10y ago

nickpsecurity 10y ago

ETH has cranked out all kinds of good, practical research. They were also the birthplace, via Wirth et al, of safe and efficient languages for systems programming.

chrisper 10y ago

I do have an EU-passport, but I do not know what an HN-handle is.

branchan 10y ago
If you click on his name 's3nnyy', you will see his profile. He has his email listed there.

gaius 10y ago

The biggest Google software engineering office outside California (around 2000 employees). Makes sense, Switzerland is a major tax haven.

s3nnyy 10y ago
When they decided to make Zurich the Google tech-hub in Europe I can assure you that taxes were not the main driver. One of the big guys at Google at that time studied at ETH and therefore knew the place is full of talent. Also, the Zurich is more or less in the geographic center of Europe. So is Munich, Germany, but would a French or Italian programming prodigy move to Germany? Maybe, but maybe not. The probability of different people to move to (neutral) Switzerland is higher so it is a natural place to attract talent from all over Europe.
- chrisper 10y ago
  Hey, I sent you an e-mail, but haven't gotten a response. Not sure if I sent it at the correct one? iwang -at - fastmail dot net