[abc123abc123]

Incorrect. In europe, either july or august, is the informally agreed upon "vacation month" which means that both customers and vendors scale down and go on vacation, and work slows down to very low levels. That means you need a lot less employees than usual in order to provide for the customers that do not go on vacation.

[embedding-shape]

To be fair, at least in Spain, things get really slow during the summer, basically from May to the end of August, even if "officially" everything is just "slow and closed" during August. During August, anything productive is basically impossible to get done, the months around are still slower than the rest of the year.

Of course, "European companies normally ignore their paid customers too from May to August" is factious, but there is a slight hint of truth in there, in that things generally is slower, at least in the South/West countries I'm more familiar with.

[isodev]

Vacation months*, plural. All project timelines were aligned to wrap up important things by the end of May. June is still operational but mostly focused on reporting, shaping and generally preparing for September when (mostly) everyone will be back, refreshed and ready for new adventures.

[unethical_ban]

Time to start looking for a work visa.

[Muromec]

Wait till you figure out what happens around the month of December

[andrewinardeer]

Having seafood lunch in 40C temperatures at the beach on Christmas Day?

[unethical_ban]

Fortunately December chills work out in the US (IT-wise) too, no one wants to mess with prod changes between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

[patmorgan23]

Kinda like how the aerospace industry basically shuts down for the month of December.