Getting Laid Off in Tech: The Myth of Upper Middle Class Security

Re:Getting Laid Off in Tech: The Myth of Upper Middle Class ... by 21 on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @04:19PM (#16916161)

There are places with less restrictive immigration (Europe) and salaries are still very high.

The supply of decent programmers is just not enough to cover demand.

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Re:Getting Laid Off in Tech: The Myth of Upper Middle Class ... by ElysianEagle on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @05:20PM (#16916712)

It's my understanding that all the countries in Europe where salaries for software engineers are high, have rather strict immigration policies.

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Re:Getting Laid Off in Tech: The Myth of Upper Middle Class ... by 21 on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @05:27PM (#16916774)

1. Other EU citizens can basically move around freely, from poor paying countries (Eastern Europe) to good paying ones.

2. Even for non-EU citizens, it's way way easier to get a software job (the company can get a visa for you). There is no H1B style cap. If you get an offer, you get the visa & job. True, for the first few years the visa might be tied to the job, but this just means that you need to have a new offer before leaving the previous job.

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Re:Getting Laid Off in Tech: The Myth of Upper Middle Class ... by xxpor on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @05:37PM (#16916855)

Salaries are not high in Europe compared to the US.

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Re:Getting Laid Off in Tech: The Myth of Upper Middle Class ... by redundo_twa on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @05:21PM (#16916725)

> salaries are still very high

Much less so than in the US, though. To be honest I think that's more an effect of different cultural values ("novelty" and "bootstrapping" here are not as celebrated as in the US), but there is definitely a difference.

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