Re:Ask HN: Is this common in the gaming industry?
by register on Saturday December 13, 2014 @02:52AM
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This is the perfect example of the "it's not germans is that Germany is better" meme that permeates the German culture directly from the words of a German guy :).
The hidden implication is that Germans engineers are better because they grow up in a better environment.
I'll leave it to you to judge.
Let me just add a small note: it's not uncommon to see IT companies in Germany employing a lot of people from Eastern European countries.
Re:Ask HN: Is this common in the gaming industry?
by Mithaldu on Saturday December 13, 2014 @02:56AM
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As i said, on average. For every company that tries to copy the american outsourcing model and ends up with a crap heap because they're too cheap to pay for good code, i've seen two that actually care.
Also, i don't get where you get the "hidden implication" bit from. I'm outright stating that it is a fact that while german engineers may not be better people, or developers, or engineers, they have a lot of advantages pushing them beyond peers from less fortunate countries.
* higher wages all around, illegal to work without health insurance, law-mandated minimum paid vacation (24 days), all (real) sick days fully paid