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Do these administrations still purchase licenses for software or do they just create open source maintained by government employees? How much are they willing to pay? Because people in Europe are notoriously paid less so I am curious of the financial aspect. Also curious about the logistics of ownership and support...

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I know that my city's administration has a quite active development department.

I don't know the current salary ranges,but they offer other values like vacation days, Work-Life-Balance (proper time tracking to avoid extra hours etc), part-time.offera, child care options and some other benefits, which most corporations won't give in addition to being the state, which means they won't go bankrupt, won't do reductions in force in the way companies do it, ...

Does getting these roles require French citizenship? Asking for a friend ;)

To work in French civil service (as a fonctionnaire) you need to be a EU/EEA citizen but not necessarily French.

Interesting. Have you ever seen a non-French(/Walloon/Monegasque/French Swiss) person work in French civil service?

I could see there being.. biases that make it much harder in practice. Not particular to France, but anywhere in Europe.

My friend might just start brushing up on their French.

I would say that for most jobs you just need a work permit. Only when doing "core" tasks where one acts on state's authority the barriers are higher.

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