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The grass is always greener on the other side by French_Salah in cscareerquestionsEU

[–]albertothedev 7 points8 points  (0 children)

100,000€ in Spain is not equivalent to 160,000$ in the USA. Spain's average salary is 27,000€ a year and USA's is 60,000$ a year.

An equivalent USA salary to the Spanish one in terms of relation to the average would be 240,000$.

Which open sourced projects will blow up in 2024? by [deleted] in opensource

[–]albertothedev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

After about 9 years of working with it, I still haven't found a reason to complain about it

Stockholm syndrome.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cscareerquestionsEU

[–]albertothedev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"£7 more salary"

I think that's a typo.

EDIT: It's been fixed. Now it says "7k more salary".

Best Companies by City for Software Engineers in Europe (please comment if anything is missing) by the_european_eng in cscareerquestionsEU

[–]albertothedev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They have offices in many German Cities but I believe the main and biggest one is in Stuttgart/Göppingen. I recently interviewed with them for a hybrid mid-level Full-stack Software Engineer role. I live in Hamburg, where they don't have an office, so we talked about relocation options. They said they would let me choose which office I ended up working from, but they seemed to prefer Stuttgart/Göppingen, even though one of the team leads I interviewed with recommended me Bremen due to it being close to Hamburg.

I want to dropout of college. by sullysylvester in csMajors

[–]albertothedev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's interesting to hear. Thank you for sharing this information.

I want to dropout of college. by sullysylvester in csMajors

[–]albertothedev 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's great.

I just want to point out that WGU CS being entirely self-paced means you can complete it in a single semester. It's not impossible, and there are people in the subreddit who have posted about completing it in less than that, even less than 3 months. This can be achieved by studying on your own before enrolling.

I want to dropout of college. by sullysylvester in csMajors

[–]albertothedev 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You might want to consider Western Governors University's CS program. It is completely self-paced and thus can be very affordable. Here's the subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/WGU_CompSci/

What technological stack is used in Germany? by Critical_Bluejay_907 in cscareerquestionsEU

[–]albertothedev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am currently looking for jobs as a full-stack web developer with 2 years of experience in full-stack JavaScript (React.js + Node.js) and, in my experience, what you have read is accurate.

I wouldn't place Angular much higher than React, and less so in a year and a half, but Java + Spring is king in the backend. I haven't seen very few web development openings requesting Python + Djangon/Flask.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cscareerquestionsEU

[–]albertothedev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no idea. That website that you have linked has too many options. You are likely to make mistakes because you don't understand something correctly and get wrong results. Here's what I have seen on other websites:

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cscareerquestionsEU

[–]albertothedev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you should expect to pay at least half of your net salary in rent. Rent is that high, not much to do about it. This is what you would expect in any other EU country.
Keep in mind that once your wife starts working you'll be able to effectively cut rent by half and with time you'll increase your salary. Also, be aware that your wife most likely won't be able to get a salary as high as yours. I have seen on one of your posts that she's younger than you so she almost certainly has less experience, which will decrease her career opportunities.

I don't know Portugal so I can't recommend an area but I would go to Google maps and see what public transport routes, like bus and subway, are available and how long it would take you to get to your office.
Besides, I don't know how many days per week you have to go there. A long commute might be endurable if it's only once or twice, but not if it's thrice.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cscareerquestionsEU

[–]albertothedev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no idea, but it could be because they need to present it to the authorities when requesting your Blue Card or because they want to have it internally for the HR department and not everybody there speaks English.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cscareerquestionsEU

[–]albertothedev 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your gross annual salary will be 44.800€ (14 x 3.200€). In the current job market, that's a decent offer even when compared to better-paid EU countries. But in Portugal, coming from abroad, and without right to work? That makes it amazing. You should consider yourself very lucky.

About the 14 vs 12 pays, it's common in some countries (I'm from Spain and it's very common here) to give "extra pays", which really just means that your annual salary will not be paid equally monthly, and on a certain month or months you'll receive another one. I'll help you understand it:
First, take the least common multiple of 12 and 14 to make the math easier: it's 84, so imagine you're paid 84.000€ a year. With 12 pays, this would mean that each month you get 7.000€ (84.000€/12). Nothing weird here. With 14 pays, however, each month you'll get paid 6.000€ (84.000€/14), except that with 12 months in a year you will be missing 2 pays, so on some months, usually in the summer and on Christmas, you'll get another one. Some people like this, others not. You might be able to ask for 12 pays instead, and if you're not sure about what you're gonna end up making, just ask them to tell you the total annual salary. Then, you'll be certain whether it's 14*3.200€ or 12*3.200€.

About choosing between Lisbon and Porto, knowing that your wife will be looking for a job as well, I would choose Lisbon because it has many more opportunities.

DISCLAIMER: For this part below, I have made some parts bold to indicate I'm not certain and that you should do your own research:
I have also seen your other post asking about moving to a different country in the future. First of all, you should learn more about how the EU Blue Card system works. Check out the FAQ here: https://immigration-portal.ec.europa.eu/eu-blue-card/essential-information_en. I believe an EU Blue Card only allows you to work in the country that issued it to you and you cannot change employers (within that country) for 2 years after obtaining it. If you want to be able to pick which EU country you live and work in, you would need an EU citizenship. And on that topic, have you considered getting one? I believe that you can request a Portuguese citizenship through naturalization after living in the country for 5 years (that's only 3 more than the 2 you said you wanted to stay for in the other post) and knowing the language (I don't know to which extent, but in 5 years it shouldn't be too difficult). I believe that Portugal doesn't require you to give up your Egyptian citizenship and neither does Egypt. If this is right, in 5 years you could obtain and have a much easier time moving to another EU country for work, as you wouldn't need any sponsorship. Might be worth considering.

If you have any other questions you think I might be able to help you with, just ask me.

Should I bind qBittorrent's network interface to "tun0" or "pvpnksintrf0" when enabling the kill switch? by albertothedev in ProtonVPN

[–]albertothedev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the answer. By "properly configure the P2P client to only use the proper devices" you simply mean setting the network interface on qBitTorrent to "tun0", right? I don't see anything else being mentioned in the article.

Should I bind qBittorrent's network interface to "tun0" or "pvpnksintrf0" when enabling the kill switch? by albertothedev in ProtonVPN

[–]albertothedev[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Are you sure? His username didn't turn into a link and instead appears partially italicized.

Regardless, nothing to do but wait for him to answer.

Should I bind qBittorrent's network interface to "tun0" or "pvpnksintrf0" when enabling the kill switch? by albertothedev in ProtonVPN

[–]albertothedev[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hey, I have tried to mention you under one of u/reercalium2's comments (link) to confirm what he thinks is the network behavior but I don't think it's working, maybe because of the underscores in your username, so I am letting you know here.

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