Announcing Google Research, Europe

Post by defen » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 3:48 PM UTC

zerr wrote: post #64

Roritharr wrote: post #3

This really makes me consider moving my family to Zurich. Looking back at growing up in Germany/Europe made me really feel disadvantaged compared to people growing up in more tech friendly environments. I would want my child to grow up somewhere where technology is not overwhelmingly debated about in a negative light. So much good stuff is coming out of ETH that it really seems to be a place where people talk more en…

Not at all. Germany is one of the most tech/dev friendly country, especially if you are outside web dev. I see a lot of C++ engineering opportunities there. If only it was an English speaking country, and they had a sun... (It's a shame that we don't have a good English speaking country in whole Europe...) ;)

Post by config_yml » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 3:57 PM UTC

fnsa wrote: post #29

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Well, finance takes also a large chunk of Switzerland's GDP and thus is scooping up many engineers as well. Maybe it's not as pronounced as in London, but it certainly isn't very easy to hire good engineers here because of all the banks and hedge funds. I think google came to Zurich because of EPFL/ETH, the very high living standard and most of all the rather liberal labor law. It's very easy to fire someone in Switz…

I think that Google went to Zurich because an early engineer was from there.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 4:08 PM UTC

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It is really a stretch to claim that Germany isn't tech friendly. It isn't pseudo-tech friendly, i.e. Germans have the obnoxious habit of separating hype from tech. The only area where I'd agree is nuclear power, which regrettably doesn't have wide acceptance.

But that's only because nuclear power uses non-renewable raw materials, creates waste products that are dangerous for tens of thousands of years and occasionally leads to catastrophic accidents.

Post by ulfw » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 4:15 PM UTC

dominotw wrote: post #68

>This really makes me consider moving my family to Zurich. If you immigrate to America you can become an American. You can shop till you drop, eat mc donlads, celebrate 4th of july and call yourself an american. This can not be said for any other country. In Germany you will always be an "immigrant", maybe if your kids are white and young enough to pick up the language maybe they can become invisible. But for anyone…

Post by hobo_mark » Thu, Jun 16, 2016, 4:30 PM UTC

zerr wrote: post #55

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I'm moving back to Google Zurich. The male/female ratio is a huge issue there, so it's good to bring a girlfriend, but cost of living was never a problem. Taxes are minimal, salary at Google Zurich is huge.

Glassdoors shows pretty average. What do you call huge?