Unless you're from a country with an extensive visa-free agreement for Schengen. In those cases you enter the country as a tourist, and then apply for a work permit (not visa) at a local government office. It is generally not possible to get a visa from the embassy if you're from a country where this is possible.
Correct, you need to have enough money to get by while the work permit is processed. If you get a job via remote interviews, and book the work permit appointment in advance of coming, you can turn it around pretty fast though - I had my work permit appointment the week I arrived, and then went straight to work.
To be fair, aside from perhaps very specific domains (e.g. finance) or corporations, the pay probably looks dismal if you compare it to SV levels. Making six figures is certainly something hard to reach.
Ditto on the immigrants thing though, Germany is certainly not the worst country in that regard.
There's almost no place in IT which is comparable to SV pay. It's not very useful as a benchmark if it's a complete outlier. But there's also a lot of reasons people don't want to live/work in SV - even given the massive pay.
Comparing salaries in Germany to the ones in SV is a nonsense. In Germany you have free healtcare, free education and cost of living and renting is lower than SV. 120k in SV are like 60k in Germany.
No free healthcare. You have to buy insurance (legal requirement). Depending on your pay, you may buy private insurance at a fixed monthly premium, or public insurance at 15% of your income. Your employer covers half the cost for each one.
Currently, the max on public insurance is about 800€/month incl. „Pflegeversicherung“ for when you need permanent care after injuries or old age. You‘re paying half of that, your employer pays the other half.
There‘s also tuition at universities but it’s not comparable to US universities. I don’t know the current level. It was the equivalent of around 100€ per semester when I was a student.
That is partially true. The absurd remunerations of SV engineers factor in the cost of living, for sure, but generally people can consolidate a decent amount of capital in a few years if they have a good position.
Even if you have to spend $2000 for a two-bedroom flat, if you earn $150k/yr you are likely able to save more money than someone earning €50000 with a €500 flat.
(I am not saying SWEs are underpaid in the EU, if anything it is still an absurd amount of money compared to people who add real value to society, but there is certainly a stark contrast)
It's not just accommodation. Larger European cities are also usually pretty good for walking / cycling / public transport, so you often don't need a car. Cost of schools starts at $0 (details depend on a country). Basic coverage means you may not need a hospital visit emergency fund. Etc.
That is true. I am not disparaging our (most of europe’s) social security model, which I would never give up for a US-like one; but at higher levels of compensation that is usually not a factor, unless you have a terminal illness that will gut your finances.
(I am european with a MSc and have never paid for education, do not have a car, and am very happy with most of the social security programs. I only tried to see things from another point of view)
Have to agree with oji0hub. Once you factor in cost of living, health system, governmental support etc. Life in Germany is actually ahead of its American counterpart.
This if often claimed but there seems to be no evidence for it. If anything, all efforts to change humans using social techniques have failed. Take gay conversion therapy, for instance. It just doesn't work. There is no evidence for it. We just can't mold ourselves using social pressure -- because it's really down to biology.
> what is the actual relationship between lower sperm count and fewer children? I mean, you have maybe 2-3 children and millions of sperm, surely they are not linearly related.
Indeed they are far from it. If you "only" ejaculate a few million, you are practically infertile. Even with reproductive assistance like IUI, the chance of conception is something like 1% at a level of 2 million sperm post wash (i.e. when they've selected the most viable sperm).
"One study published in 2017 found that sperm levels among men in Western countries had dropped by more than 50% over the past four decades after examining 185 studies involving close to 45,000 healthy men."
Yes, it is our fault for believing Netlify had contingency plans as hosting is their core business. We're fixing this mistake now so that our customers don't have the same experience.
Nobody is telling parent's customers how to feel. But the OP suggests that Netlify customers should be faulted for choosing the the wrong setup. Broken trust goes all the way down the chain, which is why the middle links have every reason to get ticked off.
The difference is that Netlify communicated the risks to its customers, something other parts of the chain apparently did not do, in addition to not evaluating the risks presented to them by Netlify.
Did you read the docs [1] before writing this? Putting a "(recommended)" on one branch of configuration instructions isn't the same as saying that the other option has a single point of failure. Also, people on both sides of a service don't have the same responsibilities - that's the whole point of the service.
Communicating about risks OR outages are both hard, and every company has both. I'm actually a happy (though impacted) Netlify customer. But it's completely bizarre to me to try to invalidate this customer's complaint.
Yes, I’ve visited that page before today. I admit my familiarity with these DNS setups may have made the tradeoff jump out at me. No problem invalidating the complaint.
