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Serious questions: are not these types of contract a standard in almost any west-EU/north-EU country?

I dunno about anywhere else, but in America these are definitely not standard. In CA most tech employees are at-will.

Yeah, you have to consider in west Europe is valued very high by everyone the "stability of work" because it allows you, as a employee, to live with less stress and with more chances to make long-term investments (family, children, buying an house, etc) and so keeping the economy and welfare up and stable.

Basically US is very employey/corporation-centric, while EU puts a lot more importance on employees (that are the majority of people by the way)

Yep, I don't disagree with this. I don't know what the answer is. My dream is some mix of US risk taking coupled withe European humanism... but that got us the UK and that's not my idea of a good time either.

That's the theory behind it. The reality can be quite the opposite.

In my experience, tech workers in the US generally have fewer job stability problems and have a much easier time finding decent work in the first place.

Yes. And not limited to the EU.

In the vast majority of Western countries the notion of at will employment is considered an ancient, socially unacceptable practice.

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