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  • magikmw@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Worth pointing out it could be fully remote, but France or Germany residence is required. From what I heard it’s an accounting issue for them, explained as each country needs their own accounting scheme, which, as an EU citizen, seems like a skill issue to me.

  • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
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    2 months ago

    57k€ for someone with Rust experience?!

    Maybe that “Rewriting things in Rust is just to get rid of old people that can command high salaries” LinkedIn Lunatic was right after all…

    • Giooschi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      While they don’t write it explicitly I think they’re looking for a good junior developer, given that:

      • they are not asking for Rust work experience, instead for good Rust knowledge and experience with open source development, both of which you can obtain on your own if you’re a competent student

        • but also, is there even anyone that has experience in Rust and compiler/interpreter/typesetting development and is looking for a job? If they did require that almost nobody would qualify and the cycle of “I don’t have experience for applying to this job to get experience” would continue

      • 57k€ is not a bad salary for a junior developer in Europe

      • the two founders have graduated recently (~3 years ago) and have been working on Typst since then (their master thesis was on creating Typst itself), so it’s likely they are looking for someone like them.

      • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Once upon a time, a “meaningful wage” was something that would allow you to raise a family of 4 while living a comfortable middle class standard of living.

        57k€ gross salary in Berlin amounts to ~3360€ per month net income. Rent alone will eat 30-40% of that.

        You can survive on that salary, which is more than most people are managing to do nowadays. But to think that someone with such specialized competency should expect a “not bad” salary shows a pretty sad state of affairs.

        • BatmanAoD@programming.dev
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          2 months ago

          Rent eating 30-40% of your income is extremely normal, isn’t it? Or is that only true in the US (where it has recently become much more than that for many people)?

          • jenesaisquoi@feddit.orgEnglish
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            1 month ago

            30% for rent is not reasonable, it is a maximum. 40% is over the max and a bad idea. Reasonable is 20%.

          • rglullis@communick.news
            1·
            2 months ago

            You missed the last paragraph, didn’t you?

            I don’t know about you, but I don’t think we should accept to be working for less or to accept a lower standard of living just because so many people have it worse.

            As long as your work is:

            • honest
            • ethical
            • providing real value to whoever is paying for it
            • not pushing externalities for others

            Then “what is normal” should have no bearing in this.