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European tech ecosystem is a bit weird. I went through hundreds of job openings and pretty much all of them ask for experience with language X and framework Y f
by blocked_again 6y ago
European tech ecosystem is a bit weird. I went through hundreds of job openings and pretty much all of them ask for experience with language X and framework Y for N years. I have yet to seen a description that doesn't care about what languages the candidate know. Its almost as if companies don't belive that engineers are capable of learning a new language or framework
Also I noticed there is too much focus on agile, scrum, DDD, etc.
And the pay is too low compared to living expenses. There are a lot of software engineering jobs that pay higher even in India.
Only good thing is you get to live in Europe and travel.
- yxhuvud 6y agoThere is no such thing as a European tech ecosystem. It is very different depending on exactly which country you look at. Where did you focus your investigation?
- blocked_again 6y agoBerlin mostly which is one of the major European tech hubs. I think the biggest one in EU.
- iso8859-1 6y agoBerlin is just one city, and that city only has a few million people. Population wise, it ranks behind Moscow, Istanbul, London, Paris, Madrid, Milan and the Ruhr area. All of those have at least one million more inhabitants. How is "major tech hub" measured?
- nemothekid 6y agoPopulation is a poor proxy. San Francisco's metropolitan area isn't even top 10 by population in the US. Including Santa Clara (San Jose, Sunnyvale), put it at #10.
- blocked_again 6y ago> How is "major tech hub" measured? reply By number of tech companies or tech jobs.
- ma2rten 6y agoIt's this pretty common even in the US outside of silicon valley?