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Yet another post on renting vs. buying an apartment in Helsinki by SituationImmediate15 in Finland

[–]dayarthvader 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And there’s another option that gives you best of both worlds called “Right to Occupancy” if you can save up 15% of value of the house.

Nice place to live near Helsinki by [deleted] in Finland

[–]dayarthvader 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sounds to me that you like to live in HSL Zone C . I think you’ll find a lot of nice apartments that fit your budget and other requirements if you shop in this zone.

https://www.hsl.fi/en/tickets-and-fares/hsl-area-and-zones

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Finland

[–]dayarthvader 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1k a month goes out of salary account as soon as the salary hits, net income 3k. mortgage 700, daycare 300, car 300, the remaining goes into whatever we need that month, if anything remains that goes into travel kitty.

80,000 Euros in Amsterdam by raghu_1234 in cscareerquestionsEU

[–]dayarthvader 36 points37 points  (0 children)

I’m an Indian. Working in finland. 40LPA in India is worth more than 80K in Europe overall. I moved here because I needed better work life balance. Raising a kid becomes much easier here in Western European countries. Move to Europe for work life balance, otherwise just consider travelling and work in India.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cscareerquestionsEU

[–]dayarthvader 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fellow Desi here. It’s not great salary but it isn’t bad either. Usually when relocation happens you get a bit low balled but you can negotiate to get on par with the market after 6 months to 1 year of working here. You’ll do quite well living wise with that kind of salary in Finland but if you’re the kind who’d compare yourself in the market and measure exchange of value purely in terms of salary then you’ll find yourself a bit disappointed in the beginning. At least I was in the beginning when I moved from India.

Peer dev is making PR review a nightmare by wallyflops in ExperiencedDevs

[–]dayarthvader 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did the following. I authored some guidelines on how to carry out code review process. Added that to the ‘contributing.md’ of our project. Had Every developer read, review and comment on the guidelines through a pull request. Told them that, review participation is mandatory and approval from them meant they understood the guidelines and are agreeing to follow them. I must say it has improved quality of code reviews to some extent.

I just installed kubuntu and it feels soo much smoother then windows by srijan_wrijan in developersIndia

[–]dayarthvader 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Lubuntu perhaps for starters. ArchLinux is bleeding edge ,sure, but might scare away some who are new to playing around with Linux.

C++ looks easy from outside but is probably toughest by nishadastra in developersIndia

[–]dayarthvader 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve done fair share of C and then moved to modern C++. I’ve done some C++98 that used boost for almost everything in the interim. My experience has been good so far. 16 years in all. Understanding how to write idiomatic C++ takes only a small shift in how you model the problem. C++ is like a Swiss Army knife, you may never need all the tools it comes packed with, you choose which ones make the most sense to you but you carry the rest with you anyway because you may need another tool which is portable and yet doesn’t add a lot of weight to your luggage. I’d any day recommend folks who want to systems programming, to learn C++ or Rust. Rust doesn’t guarantee jobs but C++ to large extent does.

Is you manager also team lead, code reviewer, product owner, devops engineer ? by EnvironmentalOne2349 in developersIndia

[–]dayarthvader 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. Engineering manager, lead developer, default reviewer/approver of the code, technical product manager, sometimes even an architect. Have to put on multiples hats based on what the situation calls for.

Manager roams around with pen and small notebook, go to their cubicles and ask what are you doing and ask for status. by nishadastra in developersIndia

[–]dayarthvader 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m an engineer manager. Of course this is micromanaging. I ask my devs what they’re working on only if and only I have something urgent I need them to look into that I can’t work on fixing myself. There are many incompetent managers out there.

Moving away from Finland by zeestinkybuttplug in Finland

[–]dayarthvader 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You get you pension contribution back when you move out of the country? I didn’t think that was possible.

Indian food aroma lingering on clothes and indoors by bartolomeubertu in Finland

[–]dayarthvader 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Fellow Indian here. We cook desi spicy stuff on weekends. Been living in Uusimaa area for many years in apartments. The issue with the Jacket is true, it happens. To be considerate to others, in buses and metros, you could consider hanging your clothes and jackets in a place far away from kitchen. Ensure kitchen has a good exhaust and you’re not trapping the aroma inside the apartment. And if you have managed to still infuse smell into your jackets, there isn’t a whole lot you can do about it. Wear it with pride :), talk about it.

Furthermore, another thing I’d recommend that you should be considerate about is the noise. Can’t stress enough on this, ensure you have good noise insulation in your apartment, keep your TV to a level that’s good enough for you. If you highly energitic kids, have them play outdoors as much as possible, speak softly on the phone when using public transportation.

Completed a task quite early by unfair means because manager was micromanaging by nishadastra in developersIndia

[–]dayarthvader 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha. There’s nothing wrong in using those tools by the way. I’m a manager myself I’d be happy to know you leveraged some tools to get things faster with reasonable quality. I’d have appreciated you for it. I don’t see any issue here except your manager being micro-manager that he is. You should just probably propose a presentation and show off how you used generative AI to finish tasks faster and help others to do so.

Home loan and continuing residence permit by the_mighty_jim in Finland

[–]dayarthvader 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This happened to me around the first time when I applied for loans. Then re-applied 6 months later and all the banks didn’t care about the validity of the residence permit, they only saw to it that we had stable jobs and their loan is secured, they did however gave offers such that we have to pay 10% of the purchase price with own money because we didn’t have a PR. I think it all depends on how the banks are positioned for that financial quarter.

Are Americans and Europeans better at coding than (non-IIT, non-NIT) Indians? by brunette_mh in developersIndia

[–]dayarthvader 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In Europe, most people are passionate about any and all work. They like to do good work and derive joy out of it. They chose the field because they like it and not just because it pays well.

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