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Switzerland – Europe's Silicon Valley for Developers?

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Re: Switzerland – Europe's Silicon Valley for Developers?

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My favourite is Luxoft incorporating in Switzerland so instead of "Russian outsourcing sweatshop" they can claim to be "Swiss fintech".

Skype being Swedish money, Estonian (and some Russian) brains does not make it less of an American company.

Currently the only thing leftover from Skype is their logo.

Re: Switzerland – Europe's Silicon Valley for Developers?

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> Swiss world of rules makes the northern Germany feel as flexible as a South American country That is quite unworldly. I worked on large projects both in Switzerland and in Germany. These are totally different cultures. The number of laws and the degree of bureaucracy in Germany is many times greater than in Switzerland (only surpassed by Italy). In Germany everything is forbidden that is not explicitly allowed, in…

I have lived half of my life in Germany.

Let me guess, you were a child so don't really know what the bureaucracy is like there. Switzerland is actually much more progressive (good luck doingt anything online in Germany!!).

Re: Switzerland – Europe's Silicon Valley for Developers?

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I have lived half of my life in Germany.

Let me guess, you were a child so don't really know what the bureaucracy is like there. Switzerland is actually much more progressive (good luck doingt anything online in Germany!!).

Quite easy, just use the Bürgerbüro online portal.

I lived in Geneva from 26 to 28 years old, as mentioned in other replies, come back to Switzerland every time I manage to, and have several good Swiss friends.

I also had to help a friend of mine newly moved into Baden in 2018 to settle in, so I know what bureaucracy she had to face until she was 100% done with everything and could carry on with her life having a proper bank account, address, mobile phone, internet, new car registration, the whole package.

Re: Switzerland – Europe's Silicon Valley for Developers?

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What's your tech stack?

Functional Scala-backend - distributed event driven system FRP/RxJs/React Front end

That sounds very nice.

edit: I just realized that one of my old colleagues might be working for you. Send PavelS my greetings.

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