I founded one company in Germany. We sold it to a big holding company. We developed network devices. We had a branch in US. If you are German and used to our bu

I founded one company in Germany. We sold it to a big holding company. We developed network devices. We had a branch in US. If you are German and used to our bureaucracy, it was business as usual. It was quite ok to have 30 days holidays and see the office mostly empty in Summer. We used to have 10-20% of our engineering team as students, writing their degree thesis in our office, which used to bring a lot of innovation. We had some support from the State, when hiring people that were unemployed, where the State paid 50% of their salaries and we paid the rest. It was good specially to re-educate people without any job perspective. They got some basic training in facility management, QA and basic IT. Salaries are lower than in US, but people - specially in the software development branch, are kind of minimalistic, which is pretty different of our American colleagues, which almost all of them wanted expensive cars and their own House. Our devices used to compete with US and Chinese companies. We had our niche and our solution was considered more stable (but with less features) than the others. I think that's the main argument of buying something "made in Germany": Fair business conditions and stable product. Not the cheapest one. Not the one with more features. But rock solid, with long term support, etc.