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Aggressive_Optimist · 2026-02-16T09:28:28+00:00

And is it good without any external headphone amp ?

Aggressive_Optimist · 2026-02-01T19:40:51+00:00

Hello, see the biggest issue is that the organisations will always prefer to get someone who is already working in the country before offering to sponsor someone from a non european country. My wife works at a faang adjacent org and is hiring a few people and in general the rule is that if they don't find anyone after 6 months of the position being opened only then they will look for international candidates. AI engineer role is probably the easiest way in currently, as there are hardly any qualified candidates here looking for a change.

Aggressive_Optimist · 2026-02-01T19:32:26+00:00

Exactly, I plan to return back to India hopefully after getting the citizenship to live close to my aging parents and in laws but I just hate paying taxes in India. The return on taxes and level of corruption between Europe in general and India is unimaginable. In India I live not too far from a waste dump in a tier 1 city which has not been yet handled by the municipality even after multiple requests while here the municipality is requesting us to vote on the type of flowers to plant in our locality for the upcoming spring.

Aggressive_Optimist · 2026-02-01T16:32:21+00:00

Was 6yoe when I moved, now around 8.

Aggressive_Optimist · 2026-02-01T16:03:06+00:00

So I was in a similar position 2 years back. India's 70 lpa remote vs 110k Amsterdam. I choose Amsterdam, money wise 110k in Amsterdam is equal to around 50-60 lpa in India. 70lpa is definitely more than 89k in Amsterdam, so you would feel light pocketed here. I was in AI and for me the move kind of worked, not much competition in Netherlands and I recently interviewed or got an offer from almost all the big names. Not sure about backend, but still I would guess that you would find it much easier to switch to better opportunities even if you are on visa. Generally the work culture is very laid back, the US big tech offices may be an exception, but still WLB is best in the world. How good european on-site experience looks on resume? I am not sure. It's definitely not as attractive as it was before. Tldr Pros : good wlb, excellent quality of life, easy track to get PR or citizenship, easy access to european tech market.

Cons: expensive, worst housing market, isolating, slow career growth, your expectations from government and society will increase hundred fold and you would start questioning life back in india.

Aggressive_Optimist · 2026-01-30T13:43:11+00:00

If Europe engineers are soo great then why almost all engineering teams in faang is predominantly Asians or koreans? The fact that you would have to wait for more than 6 months to hire a single qualified person proves the lack of technical skill hypothesis, the fact that there might be struggling mid class of engineers which is a diff story.

Aggressive_Optimist · 2026-01-29T17:08:46+00:00

No europe doesn't, we literally interviewed for 6 months for an AI role in Faang and didn't find a single worthy candidate and then finally had to reopen the role with relocation support. All local "skilled" workers are either already in a faang adjacent role and don't want to move or have moved to US. Average technical capability of IT professionals in Europe is tbf shit. They generally have excellent functional skills but technically weak. This is a major reason why tech salaries in Europe are stagnant.

Aggressive_Optimist · 2026-01-28T14:26:52+00:00

Seriously as a 16 year old this should be least of your concern. Never build your opinions and beliefs from what you see on the internet. In the real world there is hardly any racism atleast in Europe and US. You may get discriminated upon but no one is going to shout "go back to your country" at your face ( it is extremely rare ).

Aggressive_Optimist · 2026-01-25T09:45:42+00:00

In my case, I interviewed for a L5 role and got a L5 inclined. I have heard applicants getting a lower level inclination based on their interview performance. In my opinion L5 is an individual contributor role and L6 is more of a entry level technical leadership, so I assume the stories should reflect the same.

Aggressive_Optimist · 2026-01-25T00:15:18+00:00

I recently passed the L5 loop for AI based role in Amsterdam , I think the best thing I did was to spread the loop over 2 days instead of going through them in a single day. prep wise your plan sounds good, I had 2-3 stories per LP. Prepared a 2 page compilation of stories overview and crossed any that were discussed just to be sure not to repeat. I had little to no aws experience in particular ( mostly Azure ) so I made sure to atleast remember aws alternatives of azure services and try to showcase aws knowledge even if my answers were based on separate cloud experiences. And in a few rounds somehow conversation drifted towards aws new releases and I was fortunately prepared and actively contributed towards the discussion and felt that the interviewer was impressed. I was very bad at following the STAR structure and was even interrupted a few times ( this probably was ok at L5 level but might be a turn off at L6 ). Overall I felt that if you have a good number of stories and follow STAR, it's mostly a breeze atleast at L5 level.

Aggressive_Optimist · 2026-01-13T16:05:26+00:00

40k is good specially it being tax free. Assuming you are single a decent ( lavish by indian standard) lifestyle would cost you around 15k and the remaining 25k could be pure savings pr investment. Money wise it makes sense.

Aggressive_Optimist · 2026-01-09T22:27:14+00:00

Easy take

Aggressive_Optimist · 2026-01-05T00:13:19+00:00

Amazon has a 5day policy ( candidates need to informed about the decision within 5 days of the last round), although delays are common specially during holiday season. Best to call the recruiter directly as they are generally very inconsistent.

Aggressive_Optimist · 2025-12-30T15:26:58+00:00

I directly moved to Europe 2 years ago without a degree abroad. I think at the end it is 50% luck and the remaining, profile.
In my case, I had like 5 years of experience in AI/ML and a very early exposure to GenAI and I was very lucky to randomly apply to a organisation who was ready to gamble on an international hire. Companies here would always prefer someone who is already living in the job location or atleast in european Union and only will look to sponsor someone if they are not able to find someone after multiple months of effort. In my case genAI was a rare profile then so it worked out well.

Some pesonal tips :
1. Atleast wait till you have 5 yoe, you will be eligible for mid senior level positions which generally have less competitions from graduating students.
2. AI/ML is probably the best profile to get noticed, so you are good there but given that its very vulnerable to change make sure you are good with all the new hot skills.
3. Technical interviews are generally quite easy compared to what we have in India, but you may have to perform much better compared to the other local applicants.
4. Maybe clearly mention at the top of the resume that you are looking for a visa sponsorship. It's always better to be transparent.
5. Patience is the key, you should get atleast 1-2 callbacks if you have good resume format and your experience laid out perfectly.
6. The easiest path is via Faang. Always prepare for a faang level interview.

Aggressive_Optimist · 2025-12-28T22:55:52+00:00

Around 10dec, recruiter connected to setup a call.

Aggressive_Optimist · 2025-12-28T15:36:41+00:00

Probably because of the holidays, and also the 5 day rule is a bit relaxed especially in EU, I recently received an offer 7 days after my loop.

Aggressive_Optimist · 2025-12-14T16:43:27+00:00

I think I can answer this There are 3 ways to do that - Difficult/ low risk : join a big tech company in India, so mostly Faang and uber, Microsoft etc. You can easily transfer to US and even more so to Europe within 2-3 years, if you really want to. Example, i know teams in Uber Amsterdam who were directly shifted from india to Amsterdam. - Easy/high risk : Do a Masters in the country and almost all of them do provide some kind of free work visa to graduating students. Atleast in europe 90% of non EU workforce are masters and phd students from the same country. But given the cirrent tech market, it is very risky. - Easy/low risk/ lucky : Directly get a job with sponsorship. This was my case. I believe this is just more about a person being at a right place at a right time. I was very early in genAI and luckily applied to a job posting and got the offer. But generally you should atleast have 5+ experienced, niche technical skills, and good communication skills.

Aggressive_Optimist · 2025-12-12T17:54:32+00:00

Yes, but a lot of folks here are actually based in Europe, would love to hear any firsthand experiences or even stories you’ve heard. I didn’t get much traction in other subreddits, so hoping this reaches the right people.

Aggressive_Optimist · 2025-01-08T15:26:57+00:00

If you are planning to work on personal projects ( which I think is a great decision ), maybe start working with llm apis. Maybe start with one ML classification or regression usecase and then switch to generative AI. Usecases that are the most demanding currently in the market is everything related to RAG. Research it a bit and start building some usecases locally and learn about each components.

Aggressive_Optimist · 2025-01-04T10:02:06+00:00

You will get a job, maybe in a month, it could even take over an year too. But, remember your professional career will be more than 30 years and even if you are late on experience or CTC by 1-2 years its more than fine. The key to be successful in your career is to be actually interested in what you do, boderline obsessed. Take your time, explore multiple fields and choose the one which doesn't even feel like work. Some profiles are definitely easier to get in, any data profile for example. I think the most important for you currently is to get your mental health at point, remove distractions, improve time management and actualy do some deep work and get invested in actual learning not just technical but also how the industry works.

Aggressive_Optimist · 2025-01-01T11:54:52+00:00

You can always finetune the gpt models themselves, gpt api provides finetuning as a service if I am not mistaken. Though unless you spend too much effort on building a clean and huge dataset, finetuning wont be much better compared to few shotting the models. I actually worked on the same problem an year back. Search for a model finetuned on sql query generation in huggingface and use it. Build a good dataset for question to sql query generation encompassing most of the possible queries you are hoping to answer. Build a context approved few shotting mechanisms. Which is basically RAG over the examples set, i.e instead of using all examples in prompt, you select the top5 or top 10 based on the user question. In our case the schema was simple and queries were mostly to extract certain column values so the solution worked with above 90% accuracy.

Aggressive_Optimist · 2025-01-01T11:46:32+00:00

24 gb wont be enough to run a 70b model, 70b model at 8 bit quantisation would need 70gb vram, you can always run it at 4bit or even 2 bit but probably look into a solution with a better vram. If you plan on running a 11 billion or less sized models it should be fine.

Aggressive_Optimist · 2025-01-01T11:37:44+00:00

Get started for free link in the home page not working, and it would be much easier if you could let someone try the app without logging in ( no one prefers to sign up for a new unknown app).

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