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Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’
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this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2024
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Cheaper labour in the most expensive town in a country that is well known for high labour costs?
Compared to Valley workers, Germans are still cheap. 100k is a very very good salary over here.
But salary does not equal labour cost.
Even doubling the salary is far less than what you'd pay in the US, and as a rule of thumb, German labour, including all the indirect costs, is about twice the gross salary.
I'm certain there's plenty of Python programmers available in the United States for less than $200,000 per year.
These python programmers are literally maintainers of the language. They're not a dime a dozen. Not saying it's impossible or anything but you're looking to get very high caliber engineers for under 140k