> George H.W. Bush went to Yale. His son, George W. Bush went to Harvard.

A factual correction: George W. Bush was both an undergradate at Yale (Class of 1968) and got his MBA at Harvard (HBS Class of 1975)

Any experiences with Hapi or Deno re: footguns above?

No direct experience, but the fact that route handlers return responses is a good sign. Both look like they have some of the request-mutation type of footguns.

Very cool! Love seeing more JavaScript projects in the Marketing/eComm open source community, really neat value proposition for MarTech teams to be insanely productive with high-leverage full-stack JS developers

Thank you! Choosing typescript was intentional on our part, because we want growth / marketing engineers to feel comfortable contributing.

That was Booz Allen Hamilton, they are a government subcontractor that largely provides long-term staff augmentation... totally different type of professional services than strategy consultants or even system integrator (SI) shops like Accenture and Deloitte.

* alumnus

You win an award for having the only Hacker News comment about management consulting that is based in facts/reality and not entirely driven by ad hominem attacks in bad faith, congratulations

9000 jobs at one company is quite small compared to the overall industry and compared to the global shortfall in tech jobs. In Germany alone there's a 780k tech worker shortage over the next 3 years[1]. It ebbs and flows in particular companies and particular regions, but the trend is still upward globally.

[1] https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-i...

If you want to get paid $40/h then there are many jobs in Germany. If you want to get paid $150/h, there are almost none.

Is 84k a bad salary? I like money, the more, the better, but I can live comfortably with that amount of money.

Imagine rent around 1000-1500 EUR, 42% taxes and inflation making basic food prices and energy go up 100-200% and you suddenly live paycheck to paycheck with no social life and no ability to own home. It's much better to live in e.g. Dubai/Romania (0% tax) or Poland (low tax) and work remotely for German companies as a consultant than to move to Germany.

why would any IT immigrant want to work in Germany for peanuts pay and high taxes, if they can get higher pay in Switzerland/UK/USA ?

Because Germany has good living standards in many cities and salary is not as bad as you indicate.

I would consider moving to Germany before considering the UK. I certainly wouldn't ever move to the US.

The only place you mentioned I would rank above Germany is Switzerland.

Well, if they get job at these better places, its great. For others(and there will be a lot), it may not be bad option.

Better health care. Less Trump and Trump-adjacent. Lower chance of having your kids shot at school. An actual culture instead of whatever capitalism wants to shove down your throat. Unions that work. Way better transportation in big cities. Soccer teams that people care about. A few trainrides away from a holiday in Greece or Croatia (or France, or Norway, et al).

Wait until you move to Germany and hear about Osterreich (former east germany communists) - a lot of them are heavy supporters of Putin and russia in general and hate immigrants just like trumpers do. There are like hundreds of thousands of ex-USSR emigres who still love russia and support it.

regarding the rest - with german pay you wont have money to travel across Europe. your best bet will be "backbacker" style travel on budget - which is hard to do with kids.

and dont get me at the quality of their daycares....

Do you maybe mistake Österreich (Austria) for Ostdeutschland (Eastern Germany)?

And Germans have plenty of money (and vacation days) to travel across Europe, in fact you will encounter them pretty much everywhere.

The quality of care in German daycare centers is still not great despite recent improvements, I'll give you that.

>a lot of them are heavy supporters of Putin and russia in general and hate immigrants just like trumpers do.

Unlike in the USA, these people in Germany don't get their insane voices boosted by the ballot box equivalent of Affirmative Action (aka the Senate and Electoral College). Their views have remained far from the PM's office.

How does an American find a job in Germany willing to hire them? I'd jump at the opportunity.

yeah but that's Germany

You can remotely work for a German company tho.

They even will accept english if you're a good developer as lingua franca instead of german. YMMV

With a CS or engineering degree, it's also very easy to immigrate to Germany on a blue card, with a relative short path to permanent residency and citizenship.

There is no actual shortage of tech workers in Germany or any other capitalist country. It's just that some employers don't want to pay the market rate or provide training.

Asking "how can I be helpful?" is a huge unlock: almost everyone has too much to do and not enough time, and thus almost everyone will welcome help from someone else. (And if the way you're "poking your nose in other departments" is perceived as value-destructive instead of helpful, that is probably the root cause.)

Gotta say I've heard "how can I be helpful" once too often from people trying to poke their clueless noses in my business. Just asking about what I'm working on is totally fine though

Or more accurately ... I've heard "how can I be helpful" too often from one particular person who is invariably the opposite of helpful, and now if anyone else says it I'm instantly suspicious

Or heard it as a criticism -- the underlying implication that one is struggling.

The sort of argument-by-anecdote that makes Hacker News such an interesting, informative, civilized forum to read these days - thanks for your contribution

Thanks :) I figured it was more personable than yet another rehashing of all of McKinsey's scandals. After all who cares if they masterminded Pursue Pharma to get an entire region addicted to smack?