Tech recruiter here with 8 years of experience running a recruitment agency and I have seen 1000s of people negotiating salary (in Switzerland).
I wouldn't never recommend doing what the author suggests, namely: "I’d prefer to discuss the details of the offer over e-mail."
The phone is always better. Busy business people such as recruiters prefer it. Especially, because nowadays everyone hides behind text. Only the phone or an in person meeting gives you the chance to really hear what is possible compensation-wise and then really get what you want.
Tech recruiter here in Switzerland with ~10 years of experience: People quit their teams/bosses, rarely do they quit for other reasons, like compensation or brand.
If you have EU passport (blue card not enough, really have to have a EU PASSPORT, like a Polish or German one) then Switzerland is easy to move to because it takes part in the "free movement of people" - if you want, send CV to the email in my handle and i hook you up with fitting firms.
Love this and it is true that trust is higher here, also lots of (high value) things are sold on tutti (ebay / fb marketplace of Switzerland), yet the country becomes increasingly a "normal" European country and trust decreases, also regarding salaries, self promotional plug: https://twitter.com/iwangulenko/status/1618865433108688896
I've been a coder in Switzerland and now I run a tech recruitment agency: https://coderfit.com - I focus solely on Zurich and surrounding regions.
1. Engineers are similarly in demand as everywhere in Europe
2. I'd say the "cost of living" to "after tax salaries" ratio is unbeatably good
3. 100% remote work: not that popular; why would I pay you 130k CHF remote when I can get someone in Ukraine for $50k?
I had cases where firms wanted a Swiss (German speaking) person and they paid 140k CHF for fully remote but this was an exception.
Ping me for any further questions: [email protected] or better just cold call me: +41 77 986 9000 (I am on any messenger app like Signal, Whatsapp etc.)
Quatico.com | Lead Frontend Frontend Engineer (German C1+) | Zurich, Switzerland | SALARY: ~130k CHF | 3 days/week in the office | Swiss or EU member-states passport-holders only
We are a 20-person team building tailored web apps with heavy custom business logic on the server. Our products are analyzing the weather data in Switzerland, hold governmental portals online, keep trading dashboards humming, and do much more.
Clean code is our passion. Yours too?
Our interview process:
1) Phone screen with our CTO
2) Two sessions of remote pair-programming with our engineers (no algorithmic questions but reasonable pair-programming tasks).
3) Onsite half a day with us.
Interested? We'd like to hear from you:
iwan.gulenko atsign quatico.com - Please use "HN" in the subject line to help us filter out spam
In every culture it's different. In Switzerland, three stints of less than two years at companies is already a "Nogo".
In your situation, I would throughly ask why the stints were so short; maybe there are good reasons like the companies went bankrupt without any fault of the applicant, or maybe there is another specific reason that makes it more likely that they stick around with you, e.g., if you use a tech stack they love.
Quatico.com | Frontend (React, English OK), Solution Architect (German C1) | Zurich, Switzerland | SALARY: 90k-130k CHF | ONSITE | Swiss or EU member-states passport-holders only
We are a 20-person team building tailored web apps with heavy custom business logic on the server. Our products are analyzing the weather data in Switzerland, hold governmental portals online, keep trading dashboards humming, and do much more.
Clean code is our passion. Yours too?
Our interview process:
1) Phone screen with our CTO
2) Two sessions of remote pair-programming with our engineers (no algorithmic questions but reasonable pair-programming tasks).
3) Onsite half a day with us.
Interested? We'd like to hear from you:
iwan.gulenko atsign quatico.com - Please use "HN" in the subject line to help us filter out spam
supercool, simple and fast to use ,good job