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Pssst… don’t work for “tech” companies in big German cities - work for old-school manufacturing firms in second-tier metro areas like Nürnberg and Braunschweig.
by MandieD 5y ago
Pssst… don’t work for “tech” companies in big German cities - work for old-school manufacturing firms in second-tier metro areas like Nürnberg and Braunschweig. Salaries are close to Munich/Berlin, housing is much closer to sane (but still rather fizzy at the moment, buy with caution!), and they’re grasping for any data scientist or DevOps engineer they can get ahold of (among others). German competence is a plus, but the only mandatory thing is that you show a willingness to learn some.
Advantage of old-school manufacturing IT/dev jobs in Germany: the ones paying less than about 90k EUR are covered by the IG-Metall union rules - 35/40 hour workweek (depending on your contract) that your employer is terrified of letting you exceed, plus 30 days vacation.
- xtracto 5y agoMy dream is working in a eastern Germany city like Halle/Saale, Jena or better yet Thangermunde, Stendal or other of those tiny towns with great communication infrastructure. All this while working remotely for a good tech company. The amount of cheap land and beautiful spaces in those ex-communist eastern German towns (Sachsen Anhalt) in amazing . I did research around those towns years ago, and got to know a lot of empty beautiful places.
- vinni2 5y agoI am guessing you are a white guy. I personally know friends who got attacked with knife in Dresden.
- xtracto 5y agoThat's sad. Yeah racism is terrible in that part of Germany. I think magdeburg is horrible. I'm pretty far from white haha. I'm a Mexican living in Mexico. I'm not dark brown, but deeefinitely look Latino. My wife is dark brown though. We had an ok time while we lived in Germany. But we deffo got our share of racism . Nothing violent fortunately. I'd exchange that with the sad/crazy violence state that my country is at though. Constant fear...