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I'd recommend to be careful when mentioning nationalities together with diminishing words ("dirt cheap") - even if it's not discrimination, it can impact your j
by vladd 9y ago
I'd recommend to be careful when mentioning nationalities together with diminishing words ("dirt cheap") - even if it's not discrimination, it can impact your judgement and its validity.
For example, if you would have said "the market is flooded with dirt cheap programmers", the next question would have been: are the competent, therefore really valuable from a value per dollar perspective, or not? Once you mention their nationality, the reasoning goes elsewhere and you don't make your point (you do not follow-up on why they're dirt cheap, how this connects to their quality of work and why it causes the 60k cap).
- expertentipp 9y agoWhether you like it or not this is the migration dynamics in this part of EU. For Russians/Ukrainians it's geographic proximity plus salaries higher than in home countries. Many Americans/Canadians idealize this part of EU (Germany in particular) as some kind of promise land, eventually have romantic partner over here. All of them are in volatile and vulnerable legal situation (e.g. visa depending on employment contract). Either way most of the times I end up visiting the company I talk with an American, Ukrainian, Russian, and a local national. There are quite some Romanians as well, but they emancipate quickly (Romania has been EU member since recently).
- purity_resigns 9y agoAs an American that took a substantial pay cut (taxes add to the pain) to get into Germany, this sounds about right for my experience. I came over mostly as a cultural thing, and salary was less of a concern. I work with a few Canadians as well, and they didn't have access to the same salary levels back in North America that Americans do, so salary is less of an issue for them coming to Germany.