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Anecdote: a friend of mine, a mechanical engineer with master’s degree in automobile engineering from one of the good German Universities ended up working for t
by darth_avocado 2y ago
Anecdote: a friend of mine, a mechanical engineer with master’s degree in automobile engineering from one of the good German Universities ended up working for the biggest German Automakers. Him being the only non German, non White person in his department, had his entire experience be “This in not <insert your country>, this is Germany. We do things a certain way.” He moved to the US after 2 years and worked for Tesla and now Rivian. Not only did he make a bunch of money, but he now gets to work on the new technology. Meanwhile the old company is trying to keep up and stay current with the times.
- cybrox 2y agoWhile it is definitely unfortunate that his origin was involved in this, this is one of two general arguments you hear in Germany and to some degree Switzerland whenever any kind of change is suggested. "We've always done it like this here!" or "We've never done it like this here!" pick one. Where "here" refers to anything from the country down to the department, depending on the topic.
- shiftright 2y agoIt is the experience of every non-german working in Germany and especially in automotive. I'm white fwiw. I probably lost years of my life expectancy just working there. In fact I think the best thing that could happen for the european tech sector would be for the german automotive industry to collapse.
- ChemSpider 2y agoThe German car industry is completely outdated and very, VERY conservative. This includes Bosch. I would never work there. The VW board even fired the CEO (Herbert Diess) because he wanted to make too many changes at once. The German car industry is a hopeless case, except maybe BMW.