The situation with Spain is quite interesting. Usually engineers aren't that well regarded in Spain, people tend to aim to get into management. Other than tha

The situation with Spain is quite interesting. Usually engineers aren't that well regarded in Spain, people tend to aim to get into management. Other than that, salaries are pretty low and work culture is quite intense at most places, with people usually working ~10 hours a day. This is aided by the general lack of options in the market and a quite high degree of conformity which is a byproduct of the rigid educational system in Spain and which most graduates are embued with. Innovation, aside from a couple startups is lacking as most of the ecosystem is made of big consulting companies which have agreed to set cap on salaries to protect their shrinking margins resulting from years of cranking poor code by replaceable coders working in bad conditions. However, things are getting better with the arrival of some international companies like Xing or local successes like Cabify. Spain is a really attractive place for high tech, with most of the Mediterranean coast boasting Californian climate with Richmond house prices, great cuisine, high level of services comparable to Northern Europe and quite open culture. So it's logically pretty undervalued in my eyes.