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Have you considered moving to Europe? Germany, Switzerland, Austria? With my senior salary and depending on frugality I can save between 1000 and 2000 € a month
by Traubenfuchs 3y ago
Have you considered moving to Europe? Germany, Switzerland, Austria? With my senior salary and depending on frugality I can save between 1000 and 2000 € a month in Austria and have a very pleasant life. If you ask if there is gonna be leetcode bullshit in the interviews, most people laugh in your face because the idea is so alien to us. People want to hear about your authentic experiences and see you solve real world problems / take home tasks. Small no name companies are as desperate for talent as ever, while the banks, insurance providers, retailers, government related entities and consulting companies feeding on them have open positions all year round.
I don't think anyone experienced with fighting on the US software engineering market would have any struggle to get something here. Though it does depend on your expectations: You generally will not get 300k, 200k or maybe not even 100k starting and won't get any name worthy stock options unless you are doing very special things for very special companies.
Second consideration: Have you considered not applying for those FAGMAN level companies and their inflated salaries or overpaying startups, but something boring instead? Government, insurance, banking? In other words, have you considered lowering your expectations and standards?
- frant-hartm 3y ago> I can save between 1000 and 2000 € a year in Austria You mean a month, right? Or you forgot one zero, or something is wrong.
- Traubenfuchs 3y agoHahaha, yes. Oops.
- expertentipp 3y agoConsidering housing situation and extortive taxation and various contributions in these countries, the OP might be joking. Salaries there have been stagnant in numbers for at least 5 years.
- amon22 3y agoLol what the hell youre talking about?
- expertentipp 3y agoAbout the over 40% cut seen on monthly payslip and the endeavor of rental apartment search in any major city, which is a memic clusterfuck at this point.
- mighmi 3y agoHow do you find these positions? I speak German and did my studies there but always worked in other places.
- Traubenfuchs 3y ago> worked in other places ...like what? And where did you get/find your jobs? I found a lot of jobs just by checking out all the big name companies directly (banks, insurances, BRZ, ...) of Austria, via recruiters from LinkedIn, I can also HIGHLY recommend contacting the company "ePunkt", they are supportive, almost pushy and forceful in getting you into in person job interviews. IT rat catcher consulting companies like Accenture and CapGemini are probably always hiring. Big 4 is always looking for IT consultants. BRZ, Kapsch, willhaben, Raiffeisenbank Software Gmbh, Raiffeisenbank International, Erste Bank, those are just VERY few that immediately come to mind and none of those are secrets.
- expertentipp 3y ago> Kapsch Luckily they are transparent with salaries... 55k EUR annually in Vienna... before pandemic it was low and meantime we've experienced over 20% accumulated inflation. I bet they complain about the "quality of candidates", right? With this package all they can demand is ability to use QWERTZ keyboard and that's probably the skillset they hire.
- Traubenfuchs 3y agoIn Austria you are forced to name a minimum salary. Many companies decide to publish the lowest collective agreement salaries they can get away with even for positions where they will pay much more, for reasons that are beyond me. A low salary in a job posting has little meaning, a high salary in a job posting is a very good signal.
- iExploder 3y agoposting minimum salary is requirement and I guess the HR in those companies is so brain-dead the most they can do is comply and paste a few sentences. a high salary in job posting can attract the wrong crowd, so it's also not very advisable to do and I understand companies who got burned by this and dont do it anymore.
- papichulo2023 3y agoIn my expirience, EU companies dont hire people from USA. They seem to prefer people from middle east and latin america. Reason? I'd say 90% is because they usually have higher salary expectations so they dont bother interviewing them.