Germany's car industry faces a perfect storm

Re:Germany's car industry faces a perfect storm by ivan_gammel on Saturday March 02, 2019 @06:10AM (#19288715)

The shortage of developers in Germany is exactly the reason why people from Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa are hired in the first place. There's plenty of reports and publications discussing this shortage from last 10-15 years - it's not new and it has never been solved.

Just an example: https://www.handelsblatt.com/today/companies/wirtschaftswund...

I don't know what kind of CTO you are (I'm CTO too), but if you were hiring recently in Germany, you should be able to notice the average time to fill a senior software engineer position is several months. This is the reality in which we live.

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Re:Germany's car industry faces a perfect storm by AdrianB1 on Saturday March 02, 2019 @07:03AM (#19288859)

Completely wrong: there is no shortage of developers, there is a shortage of competent people. Huge difference. Not a CxO myself, but high enough to feel the pain of hiring good people, especially when HR does not allow to pay them properly - for them all developers are the same, so they all get about the same salary.

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Re:Germany's car industry faces a perfect storm by ivan_gammel on Saturday March 02, 2019 @02:31PM (#19290712)

Ok, that also fits my understanding of the market - I don’t receive all the applications, because our HR team is good at filtering. Unfortunately, German businesses are very strong in salary negotiations, so it’s a whole big thing to sell the idea of fair market compensation inside the company.

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Re:Germany's car industry faces a perfect storm by _visgean on Saturday March 02, 2019 @06:46AM (#19288813)

is that not the case everywhere?

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