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As an Indian, I doubt I'll qualify for work in these companies. The problem for non-EU, non-US devs wishing to work remotely [1] is that most companies can't legally employ you or aren't willing to jump through bureaucratic hoops just to employ you. I'd subscribed to a remote-only jobs board and the issue was that either I didn't qualify for work due to my residency, or the company never really responded. I would say…
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Not posting salaries always baffles me. I mean, I understand the negotiating advantage. Maybe also wanting to keep salary information quite within the company. But, surely, this is a relevant piece of information for the person deciding to apply. I'm surprised jobs sites don't enforce it. Only jobs with salary information are allowed.
I've worked my entire career in Germany, Austria & Israel and not once did I see a job ad advertise salary. This might be location dependent?
http://www.alljobs.co.il/Search/UploadSingle.aspx?JobID=3720...
You can sort and search by salary here: http://www.jobmaster.co.il/code/check/search.asp?headcatnum=...
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Not posting salaries always baffles me. I mean, I understand the negotiating advantage. Maybe also wanting to keep salary information quite within the company. But, surely, this is a relevant piece of information for the person deciding to apply. I'm surprised jobs sites don't enforce it. Only jobs with salary information are allowed.
I've worked my entire career in Germany, Austria & Israel and not once did I see a job ad advertise salary. This might be location dependent?
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I heard this has to do with the fact that once social services prove that you are not actually self employed the employer would have to pay back a significant amount to social services AND a fine on top of that. I understand that these laws should prevent abuse of employees by big corporations, but it's hilarious that they go after self employed consultants that make several 100k Euros per year and already pay the ma…
In Germany you need to make about 60000€ a year to get private health insurance (better service, lower price) OR you have to be self-employed, where it doesn't matter how much you make. (500€ private, 750€ public) Yes, this doesn't matter for an engineer who makes about 100000€ a year. :) But! If you're an employee, you have to pay into a government-controlled retirement fund, if you're self-employed you don't. If yo…
There are some self-employed that need to pay into the retirement fund, including teachers (which is applied broadly, e.g. training supervisors and moderators), journalists, and artists.
Also don't forget about the unemployment fund into which employees must pay.
> lower price, 500€ private
Heavily depends on your health and age. Additionally family members are insured for free in public but not private insurance which might tip the scale. Also important to note is that it's close to impossible for most to switch back to public insurance once they decided to go private (e.g. if the premiums rise in the future).
Note that to submit jobs, here's the link: http://europeremotely.com/submit_job.html (I started writing this as a question but found the answer myself in the footer links...) We're based roughly around London time -- though we now have developers from Costa Rica to Bangalore. Bangalore was easy, though, and US timezones were harder. The gap in timezones there is big enough that it took us a while to jump that success…
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I've worked my entire career in Germany, Austria & Israel and not once did I see a job ad advertise salary. This might be location dependent?
How on earth do you determine which jobs are worth applying to, then?
A couple of times this proved to be the breaking point but not that often.
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Sorry you couldn't detect my sarcasm. But it's disheartening to see U.S. of all places succumb to such stuff [1]. U.S. was built on enterprising immigrants who made it the country it currently is. No other country could then stake a claim to be a melting pot of the world nor could they dominate in so many industries. Software Engineering elsewhere is just following the lead established by American companies. I work w…
The US has been anti-immigrant for pretty much it's entire history. Whether you were Irish, Polish, Chinese, Catholic, Mexican, Jewish, Muslim, whatever - at some point, a vocal group of Americans didn't want you to come here. But people came anyway. And they made it work. I can't think of any other country on Earth that is as diverse as the US.
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At least in Germany, there is no legal opt-out. Only in emergencies, and even then only 10h a day.
> Only in emergencies, and even then only 10h a day. Are you saying that if there's some major medical incident, with medical facilities overwhelmed, hundreds of people needing help, German doctors would just say 'sorry, ten hours, I'm off home to watch TV'. I'm sure that's not true.
There are a number of exceptions for extraordinary situations, that could not have been anticipated by the employer, to allow exceeding the 10 hours. However the rule about the average in the next 6 months or 24 weeks still applies.