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Personal development. Working with people that are much smarter than you generally makes you better at your work. So from that point of view, going to the pla

• SiempreViernes 5y ago
  There are plenty of smart people and high tech companies in Europe though, so there's no reason to take the job insecurity and parental leave hit for that alone. You'd have to be in a niche where there's only a few teams world wide that are any good, and the US one is the one that's hiring.
  • volta83 5y ago
    > There are plenty of smart people and high tech companies in Europe though, Its like comparing a top German tech university with MIT, Stanford, or Berkeley. Sure the German tech universities are really good, but from the set of people I know with offers from MIT or Stanford, none of them rejected them, because they were a huge boon for their careers. The impact is pretty much the same with tech in SV. > so there's no reason to take the job insecurity and parental leave hit for that alone. Parental leave is usually _orders of magnitude better_ in SV than Germany. All SV employers I know offer you 4-6 months of fully-paid parental leave, and allow you to take more months, but unpaid. If your salary is 600k$, your paid parental leave is ~300k$. In Germany you get max 1800 EUR netto / month of Elterngeld. If you take it for 14 months, that's 25000 EUR. Somebody making 5000 EUR netto/month (e.g. 120k$ brutto), and deciding to stay at home, looses 3200 EUR netto per month. Most of the people I know making slightly over 100k$ in Germany with kids went back to work as soon as possible (women in less than 3 months... which is nuts), because they have bills to foot (mortage, etc.).