Crying in Germany with 60-85k average SW engineer salary.

delis-thumbs-7e an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, but you don’t have to have to pay SF mortgage prices, have a working public healthcare, no hordes of homeless on your doorstep etc. etc.

One might argue that we get more for our sille euro wages. Also if we decide to leave the company, we are not completely f_ckd, since our families don ’t suddenly drop out of healthcare and other services.

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lnsru an hour ago | parent | next [-]

What you ignore is the thing that with meta’s salary you can retire in 10 years back to Europe. With silly wages in Germany you can retire on your 75th birthday. Feel the difference? Germany’s economy is stagnating, there will be no higher salaries anymore. Just higher taxes. If I were younger I would pick SF and hordes of homeless over declining Germany. If you follow political discussions it will not get better: planed VAT increase, retiremeNt and health insurance getting continuously more expensive. Even if I can get 3% yearly salary increase it will be eaten up by rising taxes and inflation making my poorer every year.

	▲	intended 37 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		But you would have gotten to live in Germany for those ten years. SF and Meta make sense if you are going to try to be the cutting edge of conversations and tech. If you just want to live your life?

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breppp 24 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

There are countries with universal healthcare and SV comparable wages

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rsynnott 41 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Facebook doesn't pay an average US salary, either (which is presumably why anyone stays). Based on levels.fyi, you'd be looking at 300-400k eur for an E5 in Berlin all-in.

Not sure I'd recommend it; there are less cartoonishly evil companies who still pay silly money in Europe available.

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lostglass an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Hey, if you can handle a dystopian Kafka inspired shit show all major tech companies have an office in Berlin.