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As a Swiss working abroad (in Berlin right now), it's not always about pay, two years ago I interviewed with a dozen of companies in the US because there are ju
by hocuspocus 10y ago
As a Swiss working abroad (in Berlin right now), it's not always about pay, two years ago I interviewed with a dozen of companies in the US because there are just so many more opportunities.
- herbst 10y agoTrue that. But there are many options outside of the U.S. that are less complicated to reach. Like berlin, schengen makes it easy
- hocuspocus 10y agoYes indeed. And high salaries don't make up for everything. And these days companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon,... are increasing their engineering headcount in Europe (they must realize how cheap European engineers are with the strong USD :) Sadly in my case I was applying for jobs at companies that are relatively big but concentrate their developers in the silicon valley.
- herbst 10y agoIf i learned one thing in switzerlands IT is that it is easy to earn a lot but also relatively easy to earn more than enough while still having a lot of free time and beeing able to enjoy your job. I just throw in the money argument because almost always i say anything against SV someone comes with the money argument ;)
- geodel 10y ago> But there are many options outside of the U.S. that are less complicated to reach.. Less complicated to reach if one is based in EU or is from USA, Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland. So basically 85% world population is excluded from working there.