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One thing nobody brings to the front about salaries difference: Eastern Europe is, well, in Europe, and there are a lot of engineers willing to immigrate there
by baybal2 5y ago
One thing nobody brings to the front about salaries difference:
Eastern Europe is, well, in Europe, and there are a lot of engineers willing to immigrate there.
Good English is not as much of a critical requirement in EU, and, in general, more big companies there are ok hiring foreign workers using their own language at the workplace.
Once a person is in EU, he becomes mobile withing a few years.
EU tech sector has a wider, more homogenous, and liquid labour market, despite the national differences.
- grumple 5y agoMore homogenous and liquid? Than the US? EU speaks 30 languages. That's a big barrier in terms of communication across the EU. And it's definitely not as liquid a labor market as the US where employees and employers can both decide to part ways at any time while the EU has much more stringent requirements as I understand it.
- baybal2 5y agoIt's counterintuitive, and I also thought like that. Because there is more choice, and diversity people are more acceptable of accepting a less than ideal fit jobs. In US, IT workplaces, and especially dotcoms are all very much alike, thus people put much more effort to fit into the system as alternatives aren't going to be much different.