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Pay isn’t everything. There is also sick leave, payed vacation time, parental leave, job safety and security, privacy guarantees etc. USA software engineers ar
by runarberg 5y ago
Pay isn’t everything. There is also sick leave, payed vacation time, parental leave, job safety and security, privacy guarantees etc.
USA software engineers are lacking in all of these. Many countries in Europe have those labor benefits as national law and unions are more about enforcing these rights, and protecting the workers from violation of them.
- dominotw 5y ago> USA software engineers are lacking in all of these. My last two companies gave me 6 months each for parental leave. I also took a lot of sick time. Agree with vacation time though, could be better. > job safety and security, Job market in USA for engineers has been really good. Most software engineers i know have 'job safety' in a sense that they can find a job in a couple of weeks or couple of months at most. But randomly getting fired isn't super common from what i've seen.