[saykou]

Southern European here have worked with Nothern European companies and southern European ones. I can attest that management is the greatest difference. It is part due to HR how the hire and check people for management position ( it is loosely a series of questions + his CV) while even for the Junior developer role you can have developer programming tests plus theory question. It is more reliable, and I have seen time and time again bad management that his hired due to the cv and it is just bad professional, can't organize anything doesn't take decisions etc etc and the problem is that it can't be fired.

But also Capital accumulation, when you start from a good starting point where you have the capital to invest in IT. The earnings are exponentially greater, so the effects on Germany from the IT revolution should be greater then in Southern Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_accumulation

[theK]

I’m with you in the hiring fallacies. From personal experience northern countries have proven much more “adventurous” regarding IT hiring. Still, even fixing that will probably only get you onto sinking ships.

Sure Spain and Portugal have some unicorns but missing VC and the heavily tourism-take-all-their-money-asap management mentality of big capital and administration seem to be setting up a bad environment.

But that’s only personal experience not a thorough analysis...