Europe Remotely – EU-friendly remote dev jobs

Post by kohanz » Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 2:21 PM UTC

impostervt wrote: post #80

ameen wrote: post #74

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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.

Post by saiya-jin » Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 2:29 PM UTC

ameen wrote: post #60

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…

Post by ameen » Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 2:37 PM UTC

dkns wrote: post #76

ameen wrote: post #60

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…

> be harassed by less-qualified xenophobic residents Nice generalization. > pay obscene taxes I quickly skimmed the wikipedia article about taxes in India and it seems like if you were to earn as much as companies in Europe are paying for developers you would be either in 30% bracket or 20% bracket. 30% is more than I pay and I live in Europe. Doesn't seem obscene to me.

Post by czbond » Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 2:44 PM UTC

dvdcxn wrote: post #97

saiya-jin wrote: post #94

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a rather selfish approach to keep things polite. - you want us to be more xenophobic, but in the same time steal local jobs for yourself, with our pay, but your local expenses. just WOW - there are specific laws to prevent what you want to do, at least in some cases. it's called protection of local market, and a very good think to do, helps economy long term. - again, xenophobic WHAT? I sit in 1 row here with Swiss,…

>err... Scotch Wouldn't recommend calling us Scots "Scotch". We're not whisky ;)

Post by Inthenameofmine » Thu, Dec 10, 2015, 2:45 PM UTC

klunger wrote: post #91

Inthenameofmine wrote: post #86

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While I definitely don't agree with this sentiment > I'd love for the EU and the US to become more Anti-immigrant (thankfully it's rising) I definitely agree with everything else you just said. I'm a Swiss citizen, Swiss born and raised, US educated, but my parents are not from Switzerland, and my name is not Swiss. I look as European as anybody else. I couldn't even get a data entry job in Switzerland dammit. The US…

Hmm. There are many reasons why you might not want to relocate to the US, but car culture should not be one of them. Depending on the city, it is entirely possible (nay, often preferable) to live without a car. See https://www.walkscore.com/ and try typing in various cities or zip codes.