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Ask HN: How are the current layoffs affecting non-US developers?
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#112Poland. On one hand it’s a bit slower on the other Google here hiring like crazy, Netflix opening up an office, Shopify acquiring whole companies… To me it seems like big tech fires in the US then look for cheaper workforce elsewhere. Or maybe just a coincidence?
Google Poland afaik has hiring freeze right now.
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#113Brazil
The big international companies here are not layoffing many Brazilian teams AFAIK. There are many reasons for that and we can discuss that further if someone wants.
The national unicorn startups are layoffing a lot. As they need to cut costs, they don't have much choice.
About the small/medium size companies, it's hard to talk about because some of them were smarter and stop hiring before this create a problem for them in the future. Others just follow the flux and now are firing people too.
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#114Germany Local small social network startup’s main investor decided it’s not worth it, probably due to money being not that cheap now. Fired 30ish people, left a skeleton crew of 2 people. Abandoned the 100k MAU Android app, iOS only now.
Germany too here. I interviewed at a company in Dortmund with international customers that paid really well and passed the technical interview, salary was very good for europe, but I am on hold for maybe weeks or months because the customer has not approved new requirements and even current devs are in danger of being let go. In Munich it seems I am crazy to have a salary expectation of over €100k/year. Only have bee…
It is also my experience that somewhere between 80k€ and 100k€ there is a magical barrier for 99% of all companies in Germany. Even if you are a senior. The only real chance to go above is a leading role. Of course there are some (but very few) exceptions.
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#115Not an individual, but an agency working with international clients from India on team augmentation/ build your team basis.
In last June - we had 6 clients for whom 30 engineers were working. All our clients downsized on external consultants & we had to let go some of the people.
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#116I just got promoted. Without a salary bump. ):
Is that really a promotion?
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#117Interestingly no comments from anyone in India considering that is the largest tech market outside the US and where majority of jobs are moving to and India seems to be one of the few countries growing and projected to do well in this economic slump environment. I guess all their developers are busy working so no time for HN.
India. Was laid off in August while working for a US-based company. My first layoff in a 10-year career. Still looking for a job. I'm broke. As in "can't pay my bills next month" broke. People are hiring but remote jobs are hard to find. (I have family responsibilities and cannot relocate) I did find jobs. People who took 7 rounds of interviews then never released an offer letter. AFTER verbally confirming that I'd g…
One of my Indian coworkers mentioned once in passing that he could cover his living costs for the year using 2 months' salary (we work for a US company, yearly salary is below 6 figures).
He implied that he could stop working and live comfortably for 20+ years using what he had saved in the past 5 years. Is your situation special, or are your monthly expenses that much higher?
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#118Poland. On one hand it’s a bit slower on the other Google here hiring like crazy, Netflix opening up an office, Shopify acquiring whole companies… To me it seems like big tech fires in the US then look for cheaper workforce elsewhere. Or maybe just a coincidence?
Hard to say. It might be, but I did notice some not so subtle memes posted on LinkedIn about "dont wanna come to office? lemme get someone from India; you want donuts tomorrow boss?". I am oddly inspired that the old country is getting slowly recognized as a place to pick up developers though ( it makes sense, big English speaking population, similar values ).
Slowly recognized? Indian programmers have been a constant thing for way over 10 years now.
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#119Netherlands
I haven't heard about layoffs. I'm currently looking for a position of a .Net senior dev/tech lead and the market here has cooled down. There are almost no positions for 85+k. Number of positions is considerably lower than it was a year ago. Year ago I was also applying but the war changed my plans.
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#120Germany here. I heard that some startups are freezing hiring, especially vc-funded ones (money has become expensive on this side of the pond, too). Recruiter spam also has died down a bit. That being said, the market still seems comparatively healthy and AFAIK there have been no large-scale layoffs.
I still get a lot of recruiter spam. Maybe because my tech stack is used in slow-moving enterprises (Java, Spring Boot), not sure.