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Almost every single M.sc course at KTH is in English.
Is it free for citizens to study in KTH?
There is no tuition fee if you are an EU/EEA/Swiss citizen.
Best Startups to Work for in Stockholm
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Re: Best Startups to Work for in Stockholm
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Thank you for the insight, but I think you may be intending to reply to someone else :) My experience has fit none of the things you describe (in fact most of the factors you list are quite far off of my own experience in terms of debt, apartment location, and salary), but that's not to say that they're not true for someone else. There definitely is a rental problem in Stockholm right now.
Not sure how I can be far off when I am presenting a range. One that isn't hard to justify for that matter.
I didn't say you were far off in general, I said everything you said happens to not be applicable to my experience (or that of most of my team members), and your comment seemed to be providing information about living in Sweden to someone who already lives in Sweden, which is why I figured you intended to reply to someone else.
Re: Best Startups to Work for in Stockholm
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is expensive to live there. If you're a programmer, you will live a far more comfortable life living and working in Poland than you would in Sweden, despite how much Swedes tend to look down their nose at the Polish. I speak from experience. If you're working a low/zero skill job, you would be far better off in Sweden, although the market is extremely competitive. Sweden has a major problem with housing, so you ca…
> Sweden has a major problem with housing, so you can forget renting an apartment in a major city — you will spend roughly 18 years on a waiting list to be able to rent anything in the centre of Gothenburg. This isn't hyperbole. You can forget a first hand contract from the municipal housing agencies. Second hand contracts and/or private landlords still work - but watch out for scams.
> you will spend roughly 18 years on a waiting list
last I have read it's 10 years in Stockholm, in Åkersberga (less than an hour north of Stockholm) it would be a few years https://www.armadafast.se/boende/bostadsk%C3%B6/k%C3%B6tider
or you can buy for 2M SEK (200,000 Euro) a nice small house in a suburb and pay the mortgage back over 50 years.
Re: Best Startups to Work for in Stockholm
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure how I can be far off when I am presenting a range. One that isn't hard to justify for that matter.
I didn't say you were far off in general, I said everything you said happens to not be applicable to my experience (or that of most of my team members), and your comment seemed to be providing information about living in Sweden to someone who already lives in Sweden, which is why I figured you intended to reply to someone else.
You said that the other respondents standard might be different. I am saying that this is the range. What would be the approximate numbers (salary and central apartment), at your company for someone getting hired today, say with a couple of years out of school?
Re: Best Startups to Work for in Stockholm
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Sweden has a major problem with housing, so you can forget renting an apartment in a major city — you will spend roughly 18 years on a waiting list to be able to rent anything in the centre of Gothenburg. This isn't hyperbole. You can forget a first hand contract from the municipal housing agencies. Second hand contracts and/or private landlords still work - but watch out for scams.
> you will spend roughly 18 years on a waiting list last I have read it's 10 years in Stockholm, in Åkersberga (less than an hour north of Stockholm) it would be a few years https://www.armadafast.se/boende/bostadsk%C3%B6/k%C3%B6tider or you can buy for 2M SEK (200,000 Euro) a nice small house in a suburb and pay the mortgage back over 50 years.
Yeah, it's different wait times for different areas. The 18 year figure I gave was for central Gothenburg, like I said.
Where I was living — in Majorna/Kungsladugård — on average 2,400 people applied to rent each apartment. This was back in 2012. This would be worse now, given the refugee/migrant influx.
Re: Best Startups to Work for in Stockholm
#76How hard would it be for a non-eu citizen to get a working visa in Sweden?
I live and work as a developer in Stockholm. I have registered as an employer and have been able to help people from abroad before by taking the fight with the governmental authority handling immigration. The visa situation is a bit borked right now since the EU was unable to humanely handle the civil war in Syria so staying permanently isn't a given anymore. Right now we have to make do with "for the foreseeable fut…
Well that email was wierd.
Re: Best Startups to Work for in Stockholm
#77I'm mostly surprised at finding some very well established companies here. Should Paradox really be in the scope of "startup"? They have existed for 20 years by now...
I think sam altman said that a startup is defined by its rapid growth rate rather than its age. Dunno.
Re: Best Startups to Work for in Stockholm
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> Sweden has one if the longest working weeks in the EU. Normal work day starts at 8am. We're talking about startups on a website mostly for programmers, right? Programmers enjoy nearly free work schedule. I've seen people come at work at 7 in the morning and leave at three in the evening. Or come to work at 10 and leave at 7. Second, work-life balance is paramount in Sweden. No one will bat an eye if you have to pic…
“No one will bat an eyelid if you take a day off work.” You forgot to mention that you WON’T get paid if you take a single day off work, something that makes Sweden unique in the modern world? Sweden is a great place to work in many ways, but there are severe problems for people moving here to work if they are accustomed to other EU countries.
off for sick leave, and this is somewhat changing now with the new karensavdrag system
Re: Best Startups to Work for in Stockholm
#79How hard would it be for a non-eu citizen to get a working visa in Sweden?
I'm not sure of Sweden, but here in neighbouring Finland it's pretty quick and easy to get a visa if you have a job with a local technology company. Our applications have been processed in 2-4 weeks after completing the online application.
You can find startup jobs in Nordics from e.g. https://thehub.fi (Finland) or https://thehub.se (Sweden)
Re: Best Startups to Work for in Stockholm
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>Sweden pushing itself as a good home for startups seem to largely correlate with becoming a worse place to live in, and therefor to a large extent be posturing. This isn't, implicitly, true. For Stockholm, sure. What about a city like Växjö? Or Motala? There are very decent areas to live in Sweden, close to booming tech start-ups, and aren't suffering the same plights that the capital is seeing. Admittedly, the poin…
> For Stockholm, sure. What about a city like Växjö? Or Motala? There are very decent areas to live in Sweden, close to booming tech start-ups, and aren't suffering the same plights that the capital is seeing. Yeah... Motala is really relevant in the context of conversation about "Best Startups to Work for in Stockholm" (~3 hours by car).
>...is really relevant in the context of conversation about "Best Startups to Work for in Stockholm" (~3 hours by car).
The OP that I replied to mentioned Sweden, as a whole, which is not limited to just Stockholm, yeah?