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Honestly this is what scares me about moving countries to join startups and small companies (and even established companies). It doesn't help that I have 3 mont
by jakub_g 9y ago
Honestly this is what scares me about moving countries to join startups and small companies (and even established companies). It doesn't help that I have 3 months notice at current job - plenty of time for the company to dissolve the contract.
In fact, a friend of mine did the very same thing (wanted to move to a Berlin startup two years ago) and also he was terminated before he arrived. Don't know how the financial side of the issue was solved though.
Regarding the notice period, regulations probably differ by country, AFAIK in some countries notice is period is gradually increasing, i.e. on day 1 it's measured in days, not in weeks/months. That complicates things a lot. When you move countries, the company is in much more comfortable position for the first few weeks.
- ghaff 9y agoThere's always a "grass in greener" risk for all sorts of reasons. And that risk is almost certainly amplified for companies that are smaller/less well-established/on rocky financial ground/etc. And, of course, relocating magnifies the effect of those risks even more. Not to say you should never voluntarily change jobs of course. But I've known a lot of people over the years who have basically hopped from a stable position with some degree of dissatisfaction into something that just didn't work out from which it took a fair bit of time and effort to recover.