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Re:Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe? by novok on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @06:55PM (#25769727)
The american average vacation time is not the reality at tech firms. I easily get 1 month or more of vacation working at a large one. Same with 3-6mo+parental leave being very common along with fairly decent healthcare because your employed by a wealthy company.

Things that are not good for the average american is not the reality for the average big-tech software engineer and you have to compare apples to apples.

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Re:Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe? by tolbish on Wednesday January 13, 2021 @08:04PM (#25770359)
The average among technical workers is around 15 days/year according to the BLS. Where are you getting your data from?
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Re:Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe? by novok on Thursday January 14, 2021 @01:51AM (#25773023)
I talk to others who work at big tech firms.

That survey probably also includes such stars as tata, infosys, random IT firms and places you wouldn't call SV style software. Yes, you shouldn't move from europe to work at such places. What everyone is implying is working in SV or FANG tier places.

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