Dude, enough already. You've been spamming every thread that barely touches anything Swiss+jobs with your top 8 list and placement offers for a long time now. Please stop.

Indeed, paging dang.

Clearly it's still beneficial for some people.

He doesn't supply any informations you couldn't lookup in 10 seconds on wikipedia. He also fading out any non positive details in his chorus of praise. I don't what his motivations are, but I guess he collects leads for some dubious job agencies.

I am the tech-recruiting agency and I only recommend jobs at companies I would work for myself (I am a software engineer with a master in CS from one of the top-3 schools in Europe).

Sorry that I appear spammy, my motivation is truly to add value to HN and provide actionable information to those who are interested. I will try to be more modest in the future.

> I am the tech-recruiting agency

Your are not only spamming. Neither your touted blog entry nor your fastmail email address do give any hints that you earn provisions for your "help", quite the contrary they sound like you would be a ordinary developer working for one client.

And sorry, you don't get a _good_ job in Switzerland via a german headhunter in his twenties.

> master in CS from one of the top-3 schools in Europe

That would be the Technical University of Munich or Karlsruhe, I guess. It is a bit of a stretch to call this "one of the top-3 schools in Europe". I guess this BS is from the marketing page of the university itself.

I am a software engineer and I do recruiting in my free time.

I refer people not only to companies that pay me but also to companies that do not pay me, if I see that there is a fit.

It's not. He will stop responding to messages if it's clear to him that you can't make him any money. I contacted him once and he responded 3 months later and then stopped responding when it became clear I am not ready to move to Zurich just yet.

If this happened, I am sorry for this. I am not doing this full-time and I am sure that people fall through the cracks.

I refer people not only to companies that pay me but also to companies in Zurich that do not pay me, if I see that there is a great fit.

In Switzerland I learned to think longterm: If the candidate is happy, he will come back to me in 2-3 years.

Again, I am very sorry that I forgot you.

Does this offer stand for Europeans as well?

Everyone who has an EU passport (including Romania and Bulgaria since 1.6.) can / will get a work permit.

As a Romanian, that sounds great! Does the Swiss tech scene have any life in it? I mean, apart from Google's offices and the like (I would personally like to avoid big corporations, mostly). I'm asking because as seen from Eastern Europe industrial powerhouses like Germany and Northern Italy look like they're at least 10-15 years back when it comes to IT (Berlin excluded).

Some Swiss IT-highlights include:

- The biggest Google software engineering office outside California (around 2000 employees).

- Logitec, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco

- ETH university

- Many ETH-spinoff/startups: Doodle, Bitspin (bought by Google), Teralytics, Archilogic, Fashwell, Getyourguide, Numbrs and I surely forgot many others.

It is a great place to live and is the only place where net-salaries are on par with New York / SF. Salaries are in the range of 7000 - 10.000 CHF / month after taxes. However apartments can be way cheaper than in San Francisco.

Are you a recruiter?

Full time engineer; part-time recruiter.

you answer mails aswell?

Good to see I am not the only one that he hasn't responded to...

Going through my mails right now, trying to finding out who fell through the cracks.