Corruption Perceptions Index 2013

Re:Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 by mercurial on Thursday March 13, 2014 @01:06PM (#7393106)

It's a nice place to be, though it can be hard to get close to the natives, as confirmed by about everybody in my Danish course.

On a totally unrelated note, if there is any HNer in the Århus area, I could totally agree to a get-together.

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Re:Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 by bliker on Thursday March 13, 2014 @01:48PM (#7393399)

Hello there! I've got email in my profile. Maybe we can organize something!

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Re:Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 by throwaway_yy2Di on Thursday March 13, 2014 @10:49AM (#7392116)

One day, there will be a Danish startup on "Who's hiring".

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Re:Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 by busterarm on Thursday March 13, 2014 @11:00AM (#7392207)

You might have to wait a while. Denmark has a very strong "nobody ever got fired contracting IBM" business culture. There are one or two consultancies in Copenhagen that I'm aware of that my friends work at and could recommend. Most startups there seem to be design outfits. I'm told incorporating there is hard but didn't seem so to me from the requirements I read - you just need a lot of money available at the outset just to employ anyone (that's a positive, imo).

Anyway, there's starting to be some changes there - IBM missed a big contract or two with large clients to smaller outfits. Between that shift and the quality grads coming out of DTU, there may be some tech opportunities there if anyone starts investing money that way.

I would _love_ to go work over there but I doubt I could meet the requirements and I'm not lucky enough to have an EU citizenship.

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Re:Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 by rasmuskl on Thursday March 13, 2014 @11:09AM (#7392282)

There's lots of cool start-up culture in Denmark. (Podio, Zendesk, Zyb, etc)

While the system isn't always too kind to start-ups (high tax etc) they still do exist.

I've been working as a developer in Denmark for 7 years now (currently Xamarin) and haven't had a problem finding interesting projects.

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Re:Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 by workhere-io on Thursday March 13, 2014 @12:13PM (#7392739)

While the system isn't always too kind to start-ups (high tax etc)

Actually, apart from high personal income tax, Denmark is one of the most business-friendly countries in the world. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7391268

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Re:Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 by workhere-io on Thursday March 13, 2014 @12:08PM (#7392715)

There are lots of Danish startups: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7391809

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Re:Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 by workhere-io on Thursday March 13, 2014 @12:19PM (#7392782)

I would _love_ to go work over there but I doubt I could meet the requirements and I'm not lucky enough to have an EU citizenship.

I think there are company-sponsored visas available. You should try contacting one of the Danish companies you're interested in working for. They're always hiring.

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Re:Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 by bliker on Thursday March 13, 2014 @11:32AM (#7392443)

If you are looking for more established companies I would suggest LEGO [1] and Danfoss [2]. You can find many positions on their sites that could be interesting for HN crowd.

[1] http://jobs.lego.com/en-us/searchpage

[2] http://jobs.danfoss.com/jobs/

And Denmark is a Microsoft-land as far I know. So keep that in mind.

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Re:Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 by workhere-io on Thursday March 13, 2014 @12:10PM (#7392724)

And Denmark is a Microsoft-land as far I know.

For startups, no. There's as large an open source scene here as anywhere else. Ruby on Rails was started by a Dane (David Heinemeier Hansson), as was PHP, C++, and the V8 JavaScript engine used in Node.

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Re:Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 by mercurial on Thursday March 13, 2014 @01:03PM (#7393083)

IIRC, RedHat has a presence in Copenhagen. On the other hand, from what I understand, the government policy about open source is best summarized as "the less the better".

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Re:Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 by workhere-io on Thursday March 13, 2014 @01:12PM (#7393142)

Not sure what you mean by that. The government is generally open to open source (http://digitaliser.dk/resource/2320552), but the two biggest providers of governmental web services don't really use open source. But why is that relevant if you want to seek employment in a Danish private company or start your own company in Denmark?

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Re:Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 by mercurial on Thursday March 13, 2014 @05:33PM (#7395245)

Well, it's just quite a different attitude from what you get in France, for instance, where, eg, the gendarmes use open source heavily. I'm not quite sure what you want to show with your report, by the way. That the governmental Danish IT department is considering open source as a way of saving cost? I did find this [1] though, which seems to back your position, but at the municipal level.

1: http://opensource.com/government/13/2/danish-municipalities-...

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Re:Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 by arethuza on Thursday March 13, 2014 @11:42AM (#7392524)

I think Microsoft does Dynamics NAV development in Denmark. NB NAV is their mid-range ERP application - nothing to do with Navigation!

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