Both Mercedes and Volkswagen have absolutely massive software divisions, easily 10k+ people. They pay really well for German standards and have access to a large talent pool of people that would like to live in Germany.
There's very few quality software products these days. And that's usually just a temporary state before eventually a product gets messed with :(
Could you explain what specifically you refer to?
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That doesn't mean jack. Most large German companies I worked at tended to be super inefficient, being very top heavy and prone to constant turf wars and power struggles between the managers, as that was the only career path that made you any decent money so everyone was focusing on that instead of building great products.
>They pay really well for German standards and have access to a large talent pool of people that would like to live in Germany.
Meh, pay is underwhelming, as they focus more on getting off-shore talent from abroad on a visa who's more interested in getting to Germany at any cost rather than netting a higher market wage or increasing wages to attract local talent.
These companies are good places to coast on average wages, not to make money and innovate making great products.
But they don't pay well for IT standards, German standards (IT) are lower (sometimes a lot) then polish ones.
>large talent pool of people that would like to live in Germany.
From Hungary, Romania or Turkey? Because no one else in Europe would like to work in Germany (in the IT industry). A bit of reality salt would be better for the German IT-Industry.
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