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[EU] What is the best city for software engineers in Europe for you? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/cs_career_questions

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We usually hear that it's London or Zurich due to high salaries being available there, but the high cost of living might take away a good part of it.

In your experience, which is the best city? Feel free to give your own criteria, be it the weather, culture, ability to navigate in English, etc.

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[–] Muffi 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Copenhagen. Best city in Europe (with tough competition from Amsterdam). You can easily live there without a car, rent is not too insane and the people are nice and speak perfect English. Just avoid working at Deloitte, because they treat their newest engineers like disposable garbage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Rotterdam or The Hague are a lot nicer than Amsterdam if you're coming this way, and a damn sight cheaper, although housing is tough all over.

[–] ExperimentalGuy 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What's with the Deloitte hate? I don't work there just curious

[–] Muffi 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They are famous for overworking and underpaying their staff, especially newer hires. They promised to improve their "unhealthy, stressful workplace culture" a couple of years back, but nothing has really changed. Lots of articles about it if you Google a bit, and I have personally had a lot of friends from university make the mistake of starting their career in Deloitte, Netcompany or the like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the perspective! It was on my radar, but I didn't really consider it as I would probably struggle with the weather during winter.

Happy to see that you're having a good time!

[–] Muffi 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you're a Software Engineer, you won't be seeing much of the weather anyway ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Depends, I see it from my window ha ha