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Please stop subsidizing these institutions. The US backed loan system for ever-climbing tuitions are an obvious cartel. Never mind the uselessness and lack of ROI of most degrees in the broader job market.

How about no workspace at all. Can we all drop the collective illusion about cramming into an office together to "brainstorm" or whatever?

Ummmmm, I'll continue taking the high salary every day. When I go home, where I REALLY live, it will be there that I enjoy myself in comfort and relative luxury.

Yes, they keep having their estates and legal residences in Florida, Texas, etc.

Tons of Frenchies do that. Hell, thats basically Docker. A bunch of smart Frenchineers that wanted to get paid what they're worth for a while. Im talking about founders and those first 100 hires. But it seems as soon as they want to have kids its right back to France.

Thats it exactly. The math lays bare the truth of the hampster wheel in the usa. And Europeans rarely overwork. Its weird to be in the office after 7. In france its illegal for my employers to contact me after hours or on the weekend or when im on sick leave.

Literally the exact same offer I accepted for me, but in Berlin. I prefer Bavaria but all my biz is in Berlin. +1

Really not true in my experience. For senior devs with one or two solid infra/CLOUD/multi app deploys under their belts. Hired.com and LOCAL french recruitment firms (talent.io) regularly send me Paris intramuros based (forget idf) offers between 70k-100k depending on the job.

My first job offer upon arriving in France was 110k at Thales as a lead DevOps Sngineer. Red Hat EMEA offered me 100k as a solitions architect.

I ended up taking a lower offer but in a much more relaxed environmemt at Publicis Groupe in the 11eme. If you aren't hitting the pavement doing inteviews and keeping yourself up to date, and be willing to jump from time to time, you will miss out on higher salaries. France is slowly realising they have to match a bit more with the rest of the world.

Don't forget Doctolib

You realise that peace of mind, a social safety net, paid maternity/paternity leave, walking home while the sun is still out, etc. all are infinitely more important than overworking just to get the next Porsche SUV or whatever.

Peace is it's own reward.

I highly contemplated both Zurich and Luxembourg because of my finance tech experience (SocGen, BoA, Wells Fargo, Goldman Stackzzz). I love Switzerland.

Its not high if you live in NYC or SF. Its above average but not by much.

That was total comp. I was a Solutions Architect at Dell EMC. But I worked 60 hour weeks, did the usual client facing bs, used my own time to fill out reimbursement forms yaddayadda. Id rather make 80k in France any day of the week.

Yes, usually 10-20 Euros a workday.

Like everything, ymmv. You are correct about lower junior salaries but taken in the context of an even lower cost of living...go to Berlin. Also sounds weird to say but germans are 1000x nicer and more welcoming than the French. Berlin good stuff is that the tech scene soeaks English, all the hot iot, telekom, autonomous vehicle stuff is in berlin and its the cheapest of the cities to live in. I am coming from a background around 10 years in the industry with a lot of finance and defence experience. Plus I just always apply for 5 jobs then let them duke it out ;)

American in Paris for 1 year working as a Senior DevSecOps Engineer (or whatever they want to call us). Went from 225kUSD/yr in usa to 95kEUR in Europe (most senior devs are lucky to get 75k, paris tech salaries are lagging behind London, AMS and Berlin. I felt like I was getting underpaid until I figured out (awkwardly at a dinner) that i make more than a lot of doctors and government ministers. Plus the healthcare, subsidized transit, subsidized lunches 20 days a month and TRUE vacation means I'm never going back to the states.

All that being said, I'm bouncing to Berlin for a higher salary and a roughly 30 percent drop in cost of living compared to Paris.

Check out jobbatical.com

Amsterdam is a hot scene, Berlin is hot and affordable, dont come to Paris unless you really speak French and or have deep Fintech/banking tech background.

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I wonder if every bootcamp flooding the market with Rails devs and subsequently putting huge downward pressure on wages had anything to do with waning interest. I saw this happening years ago and moved quickly in more niche technologies.

Irrelevant point. Whether it's fiscally prudent or not is what's at stake. Generally it would seem it's not a good idea (financially) to have kids. If you must, wait until your career is at a point where you can be assured you won't have to raise them in near poverty-like conditions.

476 teens. Not a big sample.

"Experienced COBOL programmers can earn more than $100 an hour when they get called in to patch up glitches, rewrite coding manuals or make new systems work with old."

$100/hr doesn't seem like a good rate for a true 'niche' when $185-$250/hr is going around for everything from Hadoop to Kubernetes.

Just an opinion having spent a few months on a few in rural NC: Hippies are well meaning, but generally bad at the logistical/business angles to running these within a broader state environment, i.e. county/city zoning, fundraising, banking concerns, ownership legalities, etc.

Travis likes breaking any law that stands in the way of him making money and breaking into new markets. Now that he disagrees with an Executive order (that really means he's being deprived of a cheap source of labor), he's come out in full PR mode. You can like or dislike Trump, but Kalanick is a hypocrite through and through.

The virtue signaling is strong with this one.

There are many places in the country for those who make less money. No one is forced to live in those areas.

It would appear that refined sugar fits this profile more than kratom does.

Asians have been shown repeatedly to be penalized in college admissions (http://observer.com/2015/06/asian-americans-are-indeed-getti...) and in some cases are given handicaps in SAT/ACT scores. Asians have been shown to be the highest earnings among minority groups in America, and perhaps there's a concerted effort by other groups to redistribute the wealth in a way that favors them over Asians.

http://blogs.voanews.com/all-about-america/2015/05/08/this-u...

Men are certainly the beneficiaries of the least amount of "Learn to code" largesse, STEM hiring initiatives, quotas for board members (especially before going public), etc. There are numerous social, governmental and academic programs targeted towards women so while we can't say men are discriminated against, we can say the aid programs that are available for women are nonexistent for men.

Along with not stocking medical equipment, didn't Delta's data center just go down?

"Why Americans are bad." written by some self-loathing Americans at the New Yorker Department of Puffington Host-Style Clickbait Generation.

I always have copies of George Orwell's "Animal Farm" to give out. As I get older, I love seeing younger people flip out when they read it and see how applicable it is in modern life.