Corporate IT departments are still hiring like mad in northern Bavaria. It's nothing like SV or even quite as good as big US metro area IT money, but it's not b

Corporate IT departments are still hiring like mad in northern Bavaria. It's nothing like SV or even quite as good as big US metro area IT money, but it's not bad - 30 days vacation is the norm (thank you, IG Metall!), on top of a ludicrous public holiday schedule (thank you, Catholic Church, I guess...) and frankly ridiculous sick leave policy (thank you, German government).