Message from @plasticsword
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now they just want to make it "public"
its one off outcry and then people surrender to it
next up US
then UK
then europe
then russia or afrika which ever gets to that level of enforcing first
(i forgot australia but they have similar setup going on already so ~ )
isnt UK kinda already there
yeah they are
but not that public yet
same as USA
That they can doesn't mean they do
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@Deleted User As @plasticsword said, generally in china/korea/japan they want engineers (software/mechanical/whatever) they want them to speak english, the native language, AND pay them a shit salary for all of the above
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I'm getting all that and more
remember you'll be eating soy for lunch unironically
Ah, well. No more traveling to Cheena.
@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
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