I've always felt it was a trade-off. I feel that as an IC it's way easier to change companies than as an EM, so that's why I've never been interested in the EM path.
That's not my experience! I'm currently on a very competitive on the market company (I'm paid way more than most devs I know), but since it's an American company and they can't offer unlimited time off in Germany by law, it seems the amount of days was an afterthought and they just went for 25.
Same experience here. I can once in a while smell things, but it doesn't last long, and I can't correlate the smell a perfume is supposed to represent to what it actually represents (so, a perfume that smells like roses smells like something, but I can't correlate it with the actual smell of roses, because I don't know how they smell). There are some smells that are quite strong and I can identify, like alcohol, fuel, acetone, but I wonder if what I call 'smell' in those cases is just a chemical reaction you get from the abrasive? properties of those things, rather than actual smell.
I cope with it in my own case by being thorough in my own cleanliness - I shower and use perfume (three sprays!) every time I have to leave my house. For other things I rely on my SO.
I'm a bit of a hypochondriac but I've lived like this for 30 years so I guess if I was having some kind of mental degradation it would have been noticeable already!
You're getting around 34 hours per week for German employees assuming they don't get sick. US employees in these tech companies either get unlimited time off or generous vacation time anyways, and in average I doubt they take less than 15 days off a year (versus 25 per law in Germany). I don't know how many public holidays you get in the US per law, if any, but still --- the wages in the US are basically double what you'd get in Germany, so I don't think this day difference would justify it.
>Given Jack Dorsey's support of the crazier positions of Elon Musk and RFK e.g. WiFi causes leaky brain it really does look like the best of a bad bunch.
yeah, I'm not sure why he's going all-in on a fringe candidate who's clearly never going to win
You don't even need to have an European perspective to realize this. Do you think Facebook, a private company, has any problem with selling (American) data to the CCCP?
People don't trust the banks, that is correct, but the reality is that nobody buys crypto for that reason --- they buy it because the peso is a volatile currency and to avoid taxes.
> Argentinians do that coz Argentinian banks cannot be trusted
Incorrect. Argentinians do that because taxes are incredibly high, and if you earn in USD you must sell it at the official dollar rate (less than half of the real rate), and you can't even buy the dollars you sold back because there's a cap on how much USD you can buy per month (I think it's 200USD). Argentinian devs LOVE crypto because they love evading taxes (justifiably or not)
You can get way more than 100k if you’re applying to tier 1 and tier 2 companies in Berlin. I’m at around 160k (6 yoe); but I agree with you, we are getting paid less for the same work as our American coworkers
This is just gambling but with your time instead of your money. I think you're more likely to become rich by starting your own side gig than by working for Elon until 1am on a Friday.
How would you know you're eating bad meat?