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by Swizec 1837 days ago
> but their devs make far less and they lack any superstar tech giants

These two are related. You can’t have high salaries without a competitive market full of money sloshing around.

A company making $300k/employee can never pay as much as a company making $1mm/employee. Even if it wants to.

I wonder how much brain drain the EU tech scene experiences by people working for US tech companies. Either remotely, via local offices, or plain old moving to USA.