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bobolino123

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    Comment #37286294

    Lunch is paid?

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    Comment #37116113

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

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    Comment #37103042

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

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    Comment #37025460

    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 …

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    Comment #36908840

    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 sem…

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    Comment #36873720

    Yeah we get them too in Switzerland.

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    Comment #36792966

    2016 is not very new

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    Comment #36779809

    Also PostHog

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    Comment #36753986

    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…

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    Comment #36661394

    1600/wk is hella a lot. How often are you on call.. the whole week Mo-Su?

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    Comment #36562244

    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

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    Comment #36541247

    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

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    Comment #36336864

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

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    Comment #36305111

    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.

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    Comment #36296419

    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. …

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    Comment #36254010

    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…

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    Comment #36192844

    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) an…

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    Comment #36190550

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

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    Comment #35851224

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

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    Comment #35761367

    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. …

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    Comment #35686178

    Switzerland has 9 million people but 3 top 100 companies.

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    Comment #35592752

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

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    Comment #35567735

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

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    Comment #35567710

    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.

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    Comment #35567462

    Is it me or did chrome dev tools get worse?