how hackable do you think these are

@ChairmanKaga software engineers in Taiwan get roughly the same salary as in Germany. On one side, you have shit working conditions (7 days off / year) but on the other hand, the living costs are around 60 % of what they are in Germany. So you have a shit ton of money

The thing is the native language stuff. in Germany, most employers will take non German speaking software engineers if they can speak English. In Taiwan, it doesn't work because most people, even people in software, don't speak English. I had so many interviews in major Taiwanese companies and it always ended up like "please learn Chinese and come again". Even the big international companies

But the salaries are really not bad. Most employers write it on the job ad

1.3 - 1.5 kk ntd / year are usual for a developer in Taiwan

Which is also the usual German salary

Was talking to my aunt who lives in Denmark yesterday and holy shit they get 6 weeks off yearly

Was mindblown

What's so special about that?

Ohh got it.

6 weeks is a lot even for European standards. 5 is the usual. In the beginning when 5 became usual, I thought it was a lot, now, I can't really get along with just 5 weeks and aggressively accumulate overtime to make it 6-7

one week is pretty usual for most of Asia, no idea how they get along with that

also they're pretty strict on working times. From what I saw, most companies won't give you flexible working hours. Also overtime compensation is (at least in Taiwan) not guaranteed (although most international companies do compensate overtime)

But for example I know that at SuperMicro in Taiwan, your overtime goes straight to /dev/null

You are supposed to work 40 hours per week and if you do more, that's your problem

@Julian Same here in Norway

6 weeks is usual in Norway?

5 weeks is the normal, but 6 weeks is not uncommon

Many companies give one week extra to attract employees

taiwan is a beautiful place

it's what china should've been

why didn't the republic of china win?7

Because the people were unhappy and the communists quickly gained the necessary power

And kill the opposition

@plasticsword can you confirm

Or anyone here who lived in china

I never learnt mandarin so I don't know shit about that

Never get anything from a chinese manufacturer unless they have some sort of reputation

Yes

Iirc this wasn't surprising to anyone who lived in mainland china

@Julian got it. Definitely not gonna learn Mandarin then.

Learn Korean become a white token guy <:alismirk:230784726615588865>

dealing with these people while not knowing mandarin is worst though

yeah but if I don't know mandarin I have an excuse not to @plasticsword

@Sdeck37 what's a white token guy

and why korean instead of japanese, isn't japan bigger and less scummy?

The same as a black token guy in the west

You see them mostly in tech giant advertisements. The wage is shit though.

screw that, I can't be fucked about idols or kpop @Sdeck37

I think I'll try japanese

>I'll try