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Ubisoft Employees In France have gone on a Strike

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Re: Ubisoft Employees In France have gone on a Strike

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French Software Engineers make $60k per year. I'm sure they wonder why and think striking / unionizing is the answer

Is 60k bad? Pretty sure it's the average salary in the entire Europe.

Only making the avg salary after some fairly technical education is pretty bad.

Re: Ubisoft Employees In France have gone on a Strike

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post #9

French Software Engineers make $60k per year. I'm sure they wonder why and think striking / unionizing is the answer

Is 60k bad? Pretty sure it's the average salary in the entire Europe.

It's pretty low for a software engineer, this is coming from a Swede. I know people inside Ubisoft and they have notoriously low salaries.

I work in telco and we pay our developers more than Ubisoft does.

Re: Ubisoft Employees In France have gone on a Strike

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is 60k bad? Pretty sure it's the average salary in the entire Europe.

Only making the avg salary after some fairly technical education is pretty bad.

Average _software engineer_ salary.

Re: Ubisoft Employees In France have gone on a Strike

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post #12
post #9

French Software Engineers make $60k per year. I'm sure they wonder why and think striking / unionizing is the answer

What sorts of salary should French software engineers be making then? $80k? $100k? $200k?

The expectation is that salaries are periodically adapted to improve people's "purchase power". In Belgium for example, the yearly "indexation" of salaries is mandatory with a minimum of the inflation value from the previous year.

Re: Ubisoft Employees In France have gone on a Strike

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is 60k bad? Pretty sure it's the average salary in the entire Europe.

It's pretty low for a software engineer, this is coming from a Swede. I know people inside Ubisoft and they have notoriously low salaries. I work in telco and we pay our developers more than Ubisoft does.

Gaming salaries are shit because everyone wants to be in gaming. Why would you pay $100k to someone if there's like three other kids in line that would do it for $70k?

Re: Ubisoft Employees In France have gone on a Strike

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post #9

French Software Engineers make $60k per year. I'm sure they wonder why and think striking / unionizing is the answer

I'm not sure what they earn in Ubisoft but game developers are on the lower end of software engineer salaries in general.

Re: Ubisoft Employees In France have gone on a Strike

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is 60k bad? Pretty sure it's the average salary in the entire Europe.

It's pretty low for a software engineer, this is coming from a Swede. I know people inside Ubisoft and they have notoriously low salaries. I work in telco and we pay our developers more than Ubisoft does.

Northern Europe has some of the highest salaries in Europe, so that's not a good comparison. Looking from different resources online, it seems the average is around 60k. Spain, for example, has the average of being around 40k and Poland around 30k.
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