It is important to listen to the body. I tried to have a spartan level of self discipline and that put me in a express route to burn out. And I burned out.
Burn out is not easy to climb out of, so I would rather be less than ideally productive than be disciplined to an extent that ignores my humanity and that damages me severely.
I wouldn't say that is mistreatment. It is a business transaction where one party has more leverage than the other. 99% of the time the employee in the lower income region gets a far high salary than they expect to get at another employer. So it is not like they are being coerced into a "unable to make ends meet" levels of income.
> The point of a PIP is to create a paper trail to protect the company from incurring further costs and liability risk, so as a purely post-decision defensive strategy, it makes sense to not disclose it. The laws makes it such that everyone has to sustain the fiction that a PIP is in earnest, which creates that creepy gaslighting feeling. The supreme irony is keeping it secret could mean a more personally honest and less psychologically harmful relationship for all involved.
> That culture needs to be implemented with actions, and by the leadership behaving according to that culture, not by sending out a memo.
I think the memo saves a lot of people a lot of time and frustration. By actions you mean "not tolerated" in the sense that someone is fired or reprimanded for a set of behaviours then that would raise a lot of questions about what else doesn't fly when working there. It is better that they published a memo.
I am based out of Europe. I am a developer here. I have worked in a different tech market before coming here - India.
The whole of Europe's tech scene is smaller than India's. I think that is the reason for the pay gap. Even despite that the pay for engineers is significantly above the median wage.
I live in the Netherlands and I make a salary similar to doctors, lawyers and dentists. So the face value of the salary may be lower but it is a lot for here.
Java and Javascript. This is the tech stack/need of the vast majority of the software development world. Be good in these two and you can be employable anywhere in the world in most industries.
You will be able to be hired even in the highest paying companies.
No. You won't know more than the average web dev by a large margin. You will know very little of what is possible today and some things that are outdated and not relevant any more which are going to be useful in very rare situations.