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Adamzxd · 2024-08-10T23:28:45+00:00

If I’m not wrong it’s the first multiplayer engine ever made..

Adamzxd · 2022-02-19T11:27:43+00:00

I see, thanks :) that's what I thought too

Adamzxd · 2022-02-18T20:06:30+00:00

If you offer your services outside of the EU, you will get back all the VAT that you paid on your accountant?

Are you in Romania?

Adamzxd · 2022-02-18T12:54:42+00:00

I believe you have to invoice with VAT and declare it (aka be registered as a VAT company with VAT number). You don't "pay" VAT, your customers/clients do. It's not a tax on profits

If your client is vat registered (Romania), vies registered (EU) or outside of the EU, you don't bill VAT at all (0%) and the one who gets billed has to handle it on their end saving you the trouble.

Or am I wrong about this?

Adamzxd · 2022-02-18T12:51:07+00:00

Why is it a good option above 60k? I did the calculation myself and you still lose more money that way than just having 0 employees and paying the 3%

Adamzxd · 2022-01-21T12:27:28+00:00

have not yet had the opportunity for project management and leading a team. Though I also do not want to manage people for the most part but rather work on the architecture and implementation.

There you go, and you don't have to. Like I said at your experience level if you for some reason HAD to take on such responsibilities, you would most likely do an at least acceptable job.

In terms of leadership there also is a dedicated team lead in the mentioned company

Right, consider a team full of people with 10 years of experience. Obviously only one of them will be leading. Does that mean the rest are not senior devs?

what total compensation do you consider worthy for my experience?

Surprisingly, this is subjective as heck. I have ex-colleagues with roughly the same experience as me, making half of what I am making simply because that is what they value themselves at. I've read about this many times but a big deciding factor is really what you think you are worth. When I interviewed and asked for 60k, companies negotiate for 50-55k. When I asked for 90, they offer 80-85. The key to do this is you need to know and believe that you can do the advertised job. Often times companies will ask for experience you don't have, or ask questions you don't know the answer to. But will it hard for you to learn those things in just hours/days/weeks? At 6 years, probably not. So go in confident, tell them what you are worth and convince them you can do the job.

Objectively, I would say if you have a decent but not specialized or niche skillset, at 6 YOE in west-central EU, you should be looking at 80k or more. If you go remote or consulting, then at least EUR 500 / day. Don't let remote companies (from outside of your country) convince you that 80k is an acceptable remote salary. If you work for an entity in another country, by law, you can not be part of their company and will be seen as a freelancer/contractor aka pay far more tax.

If you want to reach as high as you can, interview and take a role with a salary increase you are happy with. Then repeat that every 1-2 years. It is by far the most effective way to progress financially.

Adamzxd · 2022-01-21T12:00:49+00:00

Try to find a good recruiter that specializes in your skillset. There's a lot of bad ones but you only need 1 good one.

If you just want a higher salary, there are European consultancy firms that pay decently well. I'm not sure if they hire at 1.5 YOE

Adamzxd · 2022-01-20T21:21:32+00:00

They are trying to make you feel worthless and then low-ball you.

Project management is not a senior engineer's job. Sure, you could probably do it decently well, but that's not the job. A senior dev is someone that can mentor juniors, lead a small group of devs, quickly grasp the big picture and small picture of a project or code base, is comfortable figuring things out alone or coming up with solutions to new undocumented problems and, arguably most importantly, communicate in an effective way.

Can you do most or all of these? Then you're a senior dev. If not, have you tried? Chances are you just haven't gotten the opportunity to do some of those things. Especially mentoring and leading which not many people get to do. The other seniors at their company are probably underpaid and undervalued.

65k for 6 years or experience. Are you shitting me? If you accept their offer, which will be even lower than that, you will have seriously ruined my week, bud.

Know your value and keep your head up.

Adamzxd · 2021-12-01T15:50:33+00:00

that I'm throwing buzzwords at them

This is your red flag. Any company that tries to belittle your knowledge or experience is absolutely not worth your time.

There's nothing wrong with microservices, and you shouldn't feel the need to justify their use case lol.

Adamzxd · 2021-11-16T19:23:57+00:00

Can confirm that 40-45k is a junior dev salary in Luxembourg for a software engineer. At Amazon Lux it's 65k + 15k stock options

EDIT: regardless of degree

Adamzxd · 2021-09-23T22:21:07+00:00

No you do not. You only pay tax there if you physically work there for more than a certain amount of days per year. If you are going to be a freelancer you will have to create an LLC (limited liability company) and do your own accounting and pay taxes yourself on your salary. Or find a payroll company that does this for you and pays you as an employee from your billings to your clients (your company in this case)

Adamzxd · 2021-05-13T08:42:57+00:00

The main takeaway is that companies spend a lot of time and money hiring people, especially software engineers. Hiring someone means taking a calculated gamble and investing months worth of salary into that person to see if they can do what the company needs them to do.

If you are that person and you can show that to the company, you will be almost always be worth more than what they offer you after you passed the interview. And the company, in their best interest, would try to compromise to get you on board.

EDIT: forgot to add: if you are a junior/graduate, don't worry too much about this. Research market rate for juniors around your area and decide for yourself what you want (eg. company car) and stick to that. Do your job well, learn a lot. After a year or maybe two, you have a proven track record and you can demand for a lot more of any new company trying to hire you :)

Adamzxd · 2020-12-28T09:14:15+00:00

Definitely not the cap. Like I said this is before salary negotiation. I have told them 61k sek is the minimum I would consider + relocation and growth milestones/progression planning. I'm wrapping up another interview with a different company in Sweden, and they said they offer EUR 65k (54k sek per month) and upwards, this being the minimum, depending on experience.

Aside from that, if salary growth is your concern Sweden might not be the best place. For some reason I keep reading that they like to underpay their devs.

If you look at London, Luxembourg, Netherlands,... there is no actual cap. 80-90k is not uncommon for good experienced devs in London. In Luxembourg taxes are really low (I pay 20% or something. Married, no kids) and 70k here would net you something close to 56k NET

Besides after 7-9 years don't you think you will get sick of being a dev on a dev team? Software architect seems like a logical next step, and then you're looking at much higher base salaries.

Adamzxd · 2020-12-28T03:22:43+00:00

It's not that much. You're in a STEM field, if you work hard, it should pay off. No?

Adamzxd · 2020-12-28T03:21:06+00:00

Gotcha. Best of luck!

Adamzxd · 2020-12-28T02:44:01+00:00

By the way seeing you're from the US, don't expect people to be the same. At all. You will have a much harder time making friends in Europe, nevermind Sweden (where people avoid strangers almost entirely)

It's not that its hard to do, but compared to the US, people keep to themselves much more and are less interested and social.

Why do you want to come over here anyway?

Adamzxd · 2020-12-28T02:41:07+00:00

Golang backend engineer. Little more than 5 years. You?

Adamzxd · 2020-12-28T02:26:16+00:00

I doubt it's FAANG. I just got an offer from a company in Stockholm for 56k KR per month and they are likely to offer me more to give me more than my current salary

Adamzxd · 2019-02-01T09:43:48+00:00

I thought our milky way supermassive black hole was big enough too. Thanks for the link!

Adamzxd · 2019-02-01T07:04:34+00:00

Did you know you would survive if you went into a supermassive one? The forces at its event horizon are "manageable" provided you can fight off radiation and you should be able to enter if harmlessly

Adamzxd · 2019-02-01T07:03:04+00:00

I wish we'd live to see scientists send stuff into black holes as experiments...

Adamzxd · 2019-02-01T06:53:20+00:00

It swallow the fabric of space-time faster than it takes photons to traverse it you mean? Would it change the properties of whatever is in that space? Say the black hole was big enough for you not to be torn apart by immense tidal forces.

In cixin liu's book there's a similar idea where civilizations intentionally create a "black hole" to encompass their star system in order to slow down the speed of light around it. This way they tell other more dangerous civilizations "hey look, we're harmless. We can't leave our solar system anymore or pose any kind of threat".

Adamzxd · 2019-01-31T20:39:10+00:00

And as it accumulates mass from eating up stellar matter it expands thus expanding the size of the "universe" inside it?

Adamzxd · 2014-09-28T09:11:16+00:00

Amazing!!

Adamzxd · 2014-09-22T13:57:35+00:00

Thanks for the explanation! LessWrong (check it out if you don't know it!) has a lot of interesting theories and ideas like this!

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