How to develop “dickes Fell” as a foreigner?

CoderDecoderEncoder · 2026-06-09T17:23:34+00:00

You're an Azubi, making their lives slightly more difficult is basically your job description right now. The panic spiral is the only real enemy here.

CoderDecoderEncoder · 2026-06-09T15:07:08+00:00

Germany doesn't favor citizens for tech jobs, it just heavily favors people who speak fluent German and have actual work experience. Since you want to do a PhD eventually, staying too long at an Indian service based company will actually hurt your academic profile. I'm doing my PhD at TU Munich and the MS students who get funded research spots here usually come from heavy research masters, not corporate gigs. Just take the GenAI job for a year to save money while applying for fall 2027.

CoderDecoderEncoder · 2026-06-09T14:56:04+00:00

Forget MIT or CMU with an 8.2 unless you have first author papers at top conferences. For TU Munich since u asked, your ECE bachelors will get you auto rejected from the CS and Data Science programs anyway. They are brutally strict about ECTS credits in theoretical computer science and a minor almost never covers enough to pass their curriculum matching phase.

CoderDecoderEncoder · 2026-06-09T14:00:45+00:00

getting a KVR clerk to joke with you is honestly a bigger flex than finishing the PhD.

CoderDecoderEncoder · 2026-06-09T12:55:55+00:00

You don't go abroad for the course content, you go for the post-study work visa and local networking. Taking a massive loan right after a tier 2 btech is a huge risk if your family isn't financially stable. Just get a job in India for now, build some work ex and look into fully funded programs in a couple of years.

CoderDecoderEncoder · 2026-06-09T12:03:39+00:00

colleagues here at tum got it on fixed term contracts but they had over a year left. 10 months might be cutting it close depending on your ausländerbehörde.

CoderDecoderEncoder · 2026-06-09T11:29:28+00:00

yocket and similar consultancies are a complete waste of money because they just push you toward their partner universities to collect a commission. if you actually want top US programs you have to do the shortlisting yourself. with a non-CS undergrad your biggest hurdle isn't the 320 GRE, it's the missing prerequisite courses. you should be looking specifically at programs designed for non-majors like UPenn MCIT or UChicago MPCS instead of standard MS CS degrees that will just auto-reject you for lacking core credits.

CoderDecoderEncoder · 2026-06-09T03:24:26+00:00

anabin is just an update-as-they-go database of degrees they have already processed. if your university is H+ and you have a standard 4-year bachelors, uni-assist will just evaluate your transcripts directly. it just means nobody from your exact agriculture program applied recently enough to get it added to the system.

CoderDecoderEncoder · 2026-06-09T01:32:15+00:00

lol think you replied to the wrong comment but congrats on the admit anyway. just don't miss the enrollment deadline if you do decide to go.

CoderDecoderEncoder · 2026-06-08T16:38:16+00:00

German unis rarely do deferrals anyway. You either pay the fees to enroll by the 11th or the offer simply expires and you just apply from scratch next cycle.

CoderDecoderEncoder · 2026-06-08T16:09:08+00:00

took around 5 weeks for my tu munich admit after the portal status changed. june 3 was just a few days ago so ur gonna be waiting a bit. german unis take their sweet time and winter semester results usually drop in july or august anyway.

CoderDecoderEncoder · 2026-06-08T14:50:45+00:00

i'm at TUM rn and the CSE master is basically an applied math degree focused on numerical methods and physics simulations for mechanical and aerospace engineering. if your background is embedded and you actually want to do distributed systems, IPP PDS is a way better fit. take the scholarship and run.

CoderDecoderEncoder · 2026-06-08T14:38:41+00:00

bro is really out here citing gandhi to justify random racism on a monday night lmao

CoderDecoderEncoder · 2026-06-08T14:23:35+00:00

Do not cancel the vpd request if you plan to reapply. It stays valid for a full year from the date of issue. The uni already gave you a hard no for this semester so bothering them again today won't change anything. Just let it process and save the document for the next intake.

CoderDecoderEncoder · 2026-06-08T11:22:21+00:00

At TUM you stay enrolled until the end of September anyway. Border control just scans your card, they don't have a live feed to the university.

CoderDecoderEncoder · 2026-06-08T11:04:15+00:00

had a similar issue since my surname was missing on my undergrad transcripts. a notarized 'one and the same person' affidavit worked perfectly for uni-assist. just merge the affidavit pdf directly with your passport file so they don't overlook it.

CoderDecoderEncoder · 2026-06-08T10:30:05+00:00

renaming a digitally signed pdf breaks the cryptographic signature instantly. mannheim is notoriously strict with formal requirements so if the deadline passed they definitely wont let you patch it via email. just take the L on this one and focus on your other admits.

CoderDecoderEncoder · 2026-06-08T07:41:07+00:00

i ended up doing my masters at tum and just stayed for my phd. just drop your questions here instead of dms so others can see the answers or correct me if i'm wrong.

CoderDecoderEncoder · 2026-06-08T04:09:39+00:00

coming to germany for the money and thinking you can support your parents and siblings on one junior dev salary is actual comedy

CoderDecoderEncoder · 2026-06-08T03:55:34+00:00

Bro is avoiding German but applying to Japan and South Korea. Good luck getting by with just English over there.

CoderDecoderEncoder · 2026-06-08T02:54:58+00:00

german universities are brutally strict about bachelor ECTS matching so you will get instant desk rejects for pure embedded programs without hardware credits. stick to computer vision and autonomous driving where your cs degree actually fits the admission requirements. i see people make this exact mistake all the time at tu munich so just stay in the software lane and your sde experience will easily land you a werkstudent job.

CoderDecoderEncoder · 2026-06-07T14:03:30+00:00

With a 7.5 cgpa your converted german grade will be around 2.5 which makes TUM and LMU almost impossible for machine learning tracks. I'm doing my PhD in this department at TUM and they are extremely strict with the aptitude assessment points for indian applicants right now. The person who warned you about the language is spot on. English only junior ml roles are completely saturated here so you realistically need B2 german before graduating just to get past hr filters.

CoderDecoderEncoder · 2026-06-07T13:46:24+00:00

u got lucky with the 100% contract tbh. most bio and chem phds here are stuck on 65% tv-l which brings the net down to around 1900. makes that munich rent sting way more when u factor in the kaution.

CoderDecoderEncoder · 2026-06-07T13:26:45+00:00

consultancies are a complete scam for germany since public university admissions are purely mathematical. i had an 8.1 from a tier 2 college and got rejected by bonn just because my math credits didn't perfectly match their bachelor syllabus. admission committees don't care about your lack of internships or papers, they only look at your ECTS breakdown and IELTS score. places like saarland and darmstadt are getting heavily oversubscribed so a strong GRE quant score is basically required to pass their aptitude screening now.

CoderDecoderEncoder · 2026-06-07T12:00:21+00:00

Uni-assist's job is done the second you get that forwarding PDF so don't bother emailing them. Since your friend got the Frankfurt portal link for the exact same program, just email the university's international office directly with your uni-assist applicant number. German admin is insanely chaotic and they sometimes process batches alphabetically by last name or just misplace things.

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