They're also the reason why Sweden has an utter joke of a tech industry while the United States are world-leading within the field.
Also, tech salaries are quite high -- as a consultant, you make more than in London at least.
You think I am talking shit? well... I studied in the US and worked as a program director for a technical University based in Stockholm whose sole job was to output developers into the market in line with what all the hundreds of CTOs that I interviewed required.
Trust me when I say this, that article you linked to is pure PR bullshit. You can find the same article written about Paris, London, Berlin, etc. It´s all PR bullshit that people spin in order to attract foreign capital.
> Also, tech salaries are quite high -- as a consultant, you make more than in London at least.
at some point you ought to realize that what you´re saying is bullshit, and this sentence should have tipped you off to the fact that you´re talking out of your ass.
The article might or might not be bullshit, but there's a lot of highly valued tech companies per capita in Sweden, and I know for sure the consultant prices aren't bullshit as I've worked for quite a long time as just that. I'm usually not the kind of person that "talks out of my ass".
I work closely with developers from both the US and Sweden, and this hasn't been my experience at all. If anything it's been the reverse.
What I can say though is that developers from Asian countries leave a lot to be desired. Which is funny as you've outsourced jobs to Vietnam.
At some point you ought to realize that what you're saying is bullshit too.
My previous startup was a tech one. The current one that is in Vietnam is for production and manufacturing of physical goods. The parts I moved to Vietnam are the manufacturing parts and the parts that moved to Eastern Europe are the tech parts where you can a lot more value for much less.
So no I am not talking shit, you just dont know enough about my specific case to judge it, yet somehow you have managed to do just that.
The only technical university in Stockholm is KTH, I believe - is that what you're talking about?
> whose sole job was to output developers into the market in line with what all the hundreds of CTOs that I interviewed required
That's not how a university's role is usually seen.
Academia is a fraud, but to the extent that it produces useful employees it is at least socially justifiable.
This was essentially the whole point of my original post about consultants. But people dont get this. After all taxes are paid, you get something like 375-475sek/h if even that as this is the above average level of salary.
Compared to when I lived and worked in London, this is a joke. That´s before factoring in cost of living relative to income. You live a much better life in London than you do in Sthlm for instance so I am not sure where you got that last part from. Especially if you consider how massively fucked the Krona is right now
You're also going to pay taxes being self-employed in the UK, and whether you prefer London over Stockholm is subjective; what you need to consider is the cost of real estate mainly vs statistical incomes, rather than anecdotes.
Regarding how "massively fucked" the Krona is, check this chart: https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=GBP&to=SEK&view=5Y
Perfectly doable of course, for someone into tech. But just to put things into perspective.
Why would you need to earn 3x as much?