It is the experience of every non-german working in Germany and especially in automotive. I'm white fwiw.
I probably lost years of my life expectancy just working there.
In fact I think the best thing that could happen for the european tech sector would be for the german automotive industry to collapse.
scale-ups, some well funded startups, big companies for some roles if you add up bonus, pension, other benefits.
Not too many options tbh, and you need a bit of luck, but there are some. It's hard to figure out from the job description so you usually need to do a bit of digging.
To keep in mind as well is that in Denmark the vast majority of jobs are not advertised. I know it happens everywhere but I never experienced anything that comes even close in other countries.
What used to be fairly popular is "consulting" at 2x+ salary. Almost zero risk due to high demand, this has changed somewhat.
Not too far of but 20% is still significant, and I think even so it would be mostly the top you can get from local companies. Even the Novo/Lego type companies are pretty stingy on IC compensation. There's limited upside, and startups are very far away IMO.
You get some upside wrt work/life balance. But very limited flexibility in other ways. And culture-wise it's another can of worms.
Generally speaking it's better to work for foreign companies here.
There's a different type of homogeneity I think people are referring to.
My experience is not proof of anything, I get that. But I've worked closely with both danish and polish people and there's something to be said about a certain type of "danishness". I can't really articulate it, however it's the largest complain I hear. I would compare it to being in a cult (having never been in a cult though). Personally I find it very weird.
I probably lost years of my life expectancy just working there. In fact I think the best thing that could happen for the european tech sector would be for the german automotive industry to collapse.