EU beckons Indian tech talent

Re:EU beckons Indian tech talent by anovikov on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @05:57AM (#21871182)

Problem is, there is internal migration in Europe which you can't possibly close this way. Romania is as poor as China and has better tech talent speaking European languages a lot better. No amount of visa restrictions will protect you from that.

"hire pretty much anyone across the globe" - well only if you are prepared to pay 1.5x average salary in your country (Blue Card), so not for cheap positions, will start from some like 50000 EUR net a year in Germany for example. Otherwise it's really pain in the ass procedure to get a normal work visa, or not possible at all (in some countries).

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Re:EU beckons Indian tech talent by ChuckNorris89 on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @06:05AM (#21871213)

Romania or Eastern Europe is not the reason tech salaries are low in Europe as the country may be poor but tech workers there make almost as much as their counterparts in western Europe due to low taxes and high competition for talent. A Romanian tech grad can make €2k NET salary out of University which factoring the low COL is one of the reasons very few chose to migrate west nowadays.

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Re:EU beckons Indian tech talent by anovikov on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @09:34AM (#21872290)

Real reason of course, is that they can't pay more. Value they create is so much smaller due to the lower investment-driven leverage. Anyone who tried to raise VC funding in EU will confirm that.

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