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BERLIN/THE FACTORY, VARIOUS FULLTIME ENGINEERING & BIZDEV POSITIONS Top 5 reasons why you should move to Berlin, now: 1. Lowest livings costs with highest qua
by urgeio 14y ago
BERLIN/THE FACTORY, VARIOUS FULLTIME ENGINEERING & BIZDEV POSITIONS
Top 5 reasons why you should move to Berlin, now:
1. Lowest livings costs with highest quality of living. Stay in gorgeous, perfectly renovated apartments in pre-WWII residential buildings with high ceilings, right in the middle of the center and pay a fraction of costs of any other capital (even cheaper than any Eastern European capital). No need for a car—Berlin has one of the densest subway nets and wide streets make biking fun.
2. A vibrant and fast growing ecosystem of smart people. A vast number of new software talents, founders, software companies and VCs are moving to Berlin every day (Twitter, Google, Soundcloud, Early Bird and many more).
3. People here are open-minded, outgoing, mix well and international—no need to learn German, everyone speaks English. Making new friends is a matter of days. Visit tons of networking and startup events.
4. Easy work permissions—Europeans do not need any and can work from day one and the rest applies for the hassle-free Blue Card.
5. Berlin's night life is unmatched, huge and changing every day (plus ridiculously cheap). Berlin has got some of the most dazzling, naughty, and original clubs on the face of the Earth.
Berlin is calling and getting the new tech hub of Europe. If you are passionate about building great software, we’d love to talk with you. If you don't live in Berlin yet, we could help to fix that.
=> http://urge.io/jobs http://urge.io/jobs
- siddhant 14y agoThe link 404s. Something temporary?
- brightsize 14y agoThe site says that I should submit my "photo resume" I've heard of this in Germany - people having photos of themselves on resumes. But can you tell me specifically why you care what I look like?
- dguaraglia 14y agoThis is common practice in most countries but the US. In fact, you can read it the other way around: why do you think companies are now forced to not ask for pictures in the resumes in the US?
- brightsize 14y agoSaying that it's "common practice" does not answer the question of why you care what I look like. If a person can code, they can code, no matter what they look like. The only thing that a photo does is assist in discriminating based on looks, age, disability, and other non-job-related attributes. As far as I know, there's nothing preventing U.S. companies from asking for photos with resumes. It's just not common, probably because how one looks is (usually) not relevant to being able to perform a given job. In the US what companies ARE (in theory) forced to do by law is to not practice discrimination based on gender, age, religion, disabilities, and probably some other things. Which is great in my opinion, I wouldn't want to work for a company that did these things, or wanted irrelevant information from me, information that could only conceivably be used for the purposes of such discrimination. Perhaps I'm naive, but I would have thought that start-ups, being as they are overly-concerned with "getting sh*t done", would be the last to discriminate on irrelevancies.
- dguaraglia 14y ago>> Perhaps I'm naive, but I would have thought that start-ups, being as they are overly-concerned with "getting sht done", would be the last to discriminate on irrelevancies. Exactly! What I was trying to say was: because it's common practice, I don't think they are making a special case* of asking for a picture in the CV. Rather, they are just using what's considered the norm over there.
- adv0r 14y agobut, are you in stealth mode? what does the company does?
- jnsaff2 14y agoWhat are the salaries engineers would expect in Berlin in a startup/non-startup company pre/post taxes? Few examples or ranges would be very helpful.