bobolino123

Lunch is paid?

Tech salaries in West and South Europe indicate that there is no shortage.

Lazy imports are not supported with tRPC, making serverless functions heavy which results in long cold starts.

Another scam is that the 1h lunch is not paid in most parts of Europe.

Like in Switzerland it's not 42.5h week but actually 47.5h if you include the unpaid lunch. When I tell this to a British/Canadian/American they are kinda surprised.

What are the reasons to bring people to san fransisco in the first place and deal with immigration problems? Why can't startups just use a payroll provider like deel and have a semi-global team?

Yeah we get them too in Switzerland.

2016 is not very new

Also PostHog

We have non-tech leadership (it's sales).

We also have too many decision makers. We also have too bad and always changing requirements/spec.

Yet we double every year because of pmf and a solid core product.

I think what to work on has also a big impact how productive (measured in $$$ instead of slocs) a team is.

1600/wk is hella a lot.

How often are you on call.. the whole week Mo-Su?

Same. Either you chill in West/South Europe or you go the consulstant/entrepreneurship route. Another option is not to be in West/South Europe

USD ~117k TC, SaaS staff engineer. I work about 42.5/47.5h a week fully remote in Switzerland and as a staff you need every minute.

Edit: Bachelor and Master in CS + 6 yoe

Is it frontend, information architecture, design or product ideas? Often frontend skills get the blame.

What are you buying on Amazon if I may ask? I don't order that much tbh. My wife buys a lot from shein. We also order from ikea or online pharmacy if needed.

How do you count breaks in both countries? In Germany and Switzerland for example breaks don't count as working so if you have 42.5h you are at least 47.5h per week in the office. Hours per worker might be lower since there are tax-favourable incentives like "mini job" that push it down artificially.

Well I'm working as the lead engineer at a startup for the past 3 years and can honestly say that fulfilling work is one of it. You are excited to go to work.. Another aspect might be softer things such as remote work and less bureaucracy. The company grew from 6 people to over 50 in that time with minimal funding.

That being said if someone has a .NET/React/NextJS/Node role (can also be 100% TypeScript) and I can work globally (wanna travel the world), I would switch in a heartbeat. European so not so expensive :)

Lack of companies who earn a lot or have a lot of cash / good business model. Currently open FAANG engineering positions are close to 0 (Still more than 600 positions in the US) and there are single digit "FAANG-like" companies here (hundreds in the US).

I don't think that Germany will ever catch up tbh. There is no incentive. Once you earn a little more, the progressive tax rate is too high and eats everthing away. Less people pursue engineering in the first place, because net wages are so compressed. Also just look at real estate.

Munich:

- Median house price: USD 1’534’933 for ~1500 sqft

- Median salary: USD 59k pre-tax.

The pension system will break in the next decades. Actually it already is.. it is already heavily financed by other taxes.

This country has other perks like more vacation days, but making bank is definitely not one of them tho.

Many academics emigrate to Switzerland, USA, Netherland or Canada - me included.

Juniors get 40-50k in Germany. Mid level 50-64k.

As someone not living in the US, remote work is a plus for me.

In Europe you just try to get enough experience to emigrate, start a business and emigrate or not join a startup and instead try to work as little as possible in a bigger company. Sorry for the nasty comment, it's not as distopian but it's like feeling left out a litte.

Switzerland has 9 million people but 3 top 100 companies.

Why can't an European company sell to the US?

Which might also translate into less tourism and/or less generous spending, i.e. reduced bazar shopping, tips, tours.

There might be demand for software but there is definitely reduced demand for software engineers in the US for the past year, especially at the entry levels.

Is it me or did chrome dev tools get worse?

You mean work for 45-50 years :( they will likely move the retirement age from 67 to 70 in europoor. Some people start working fulltime at like 15-16.

Already killed its future tbh but yeah it can be worse

Actually it's Sylt, Frankfurt then Munich.

The problem with Munich is that the metropolitan area is f.. expensive as well.

Frankfurt and Stuttgart are pricey too.

The chat is really bad (compared to Discord) and the indicators don't refresh sometimes.