Spain Runs Out of Workers with Almost 5M Unemployed
Spanish dev here, 3 years in the business, been twice a freelancer and twice an employee. My main complaints:<p>- The maximum salary a developer can earn at any given company is almost written in stone - around 36000 euros. Every public job posting will have that figure as the max. When it&#x27;s higher, they&#x27;ll water it down in the interview.<p>Why? Probably because they don&#x27;t have the notion of a 10x programmer at all. We all are perceived as &#x27;equal&#x27; or even replaceable.<p>- Also, companies are scared of the mere possibility of their programmers leaving. The sole hint of that you may leave will turn their red alarms on, and they&#x27;ll start searching a replacement.<p>There rarely exists here the mentality that a work relationship is a commercial exchange, not an intimate family-like relationship. Being open to the market is not &#x27;treason&#x27;.<p>- Tech stacks tend to be years behind San Francisco, whether is languages, frameworks, ops practices...<p>- Functional programming opportunities extremely scarce. Elixir is gaining traction here though.