Company A: TC: 67k Commute: 25 minutes Home office: No Working time: Fixed 9-5 Vacation: 28 Dev team: 8 (juniors - intermediate; 1 senior) Founded: 2009 Profitable: Since 2011 Notebook: Dell or Mac Company: Established with nearly 1k customers; privately owned; IT security Misc: Young team (under 30 years); out of 8 dev they got 3 working students who are working part time, remaining 5 are full time employees; only one really experienced dev who is also the CTO; once a week free lunch Company B: TC: 85k Commute: 50 minutes Home office: 2 times a week Working time: flexible Vacation: 32 Dev team: 4 (junior - senior) Founded: 2018 Profitable: No idea; but recruiter said company is fully financed for this year. Notebook: Whatever you like Company: Start Up; Backed up by big company; construction industry Misc: They advertise with good WLB; quite; young but experienced developers Tech stack of both are similar (Java 11; Hibernate; JS-framework (Angular resp. VueJs); MySQL). Working time: 40h/w. Location of both companies is in Southern Germany
A
Both sucks
For German standards they are ok.
Ah I’m interested in Germany but that comp is brutal. Taxes probably arent that great either Is there not a southern Germany google location or something? Is that 50 mins one way? If so then not that one. I value after work time a lot
Yes, one way. So. Nearly 2 hours per work day. I don't know anyone who earns more than 100k. You have to be like CTO in a big company. Yes, there is Google in Germany. But I don't think I'll get in and if so, I don't think they'll pay me more than 90k.
MySQL? The practices behind scaling that would give you the wrong idea about how to do system design, but it’s a start I guess. The difference in pay makes the commute worth it IMO. Besides, if you work from home 2x/week, it kind of evens out.
Negotiate offer b to have at least another day working from home or more. If they have commuter benefits that would help also.
A
I was gonna vote B but the commute time is a pain...
B
B. 85k is quite nice for Germany.
Move To the Bay Area
Not possible. Got family here.
Thats not how moving works.