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West European developers have been on about that pay level for a long time but not that many of them ended up working for US companies, despite being comparably
by fulafel 4y ago
West European developers have been on about that pay level for a long time but not that many of them ended up working for US companies, despite being comparably competent to US developers and arguably more culturally similar to US.
- physicsguy 4y agoAnd on better timezones
- fakedang 4y agoBecause it costs effectively more to hire West European developers. Hiring a WE developer has additional sunk costs to it, making it harder to replace an employee, hence companies resort to not hiring them, or hiring the extremely talented ones who haven't relocated yet on contract.