Yes, your pay in the United States would be much higher than you'd get paid in the same position in Europe. Taxes are also higher in Europe than in the US. It evens out a bit if you have dependents, or some other special circumstances. For a young person with no dependents or chronic medical conditions, financially US is going to be a much better choice.
That being said, you're not going to just automatically get a jr. dev position in the US right now. The layoffs have been brutal, and there are a lot of developers looking for jobs at the moment. I don't know how long the current conditions are going to last, but generally speaking a bad job market is the perfect time to go to school.
How confident are you about your startup employer's ability to operate? Startups are notoriously fickle. I would take a very hard look at the company, its funding, leaders and business idea before deciding to rely on them for enabling you to immigrate to Germany.
Echoing on "a bad job market is the perfect time to go to school". The bad job market will rebound. Don't fall into the AI destroy jobs narative, it will create more jobs, just different. Others mentions about good US education opening doors to the US job market. That is true and definitely warrants over working in EU just by itself, but the other priceless benefit to a good US education is the network of people to start doing things on your own should you decide that is what you want later.
To compound on this, four years at a college is a perfect time to build social connections to people who will be all over the industry in various ways.
A T200 school may be a bit more limiting to a geographic region, but you'll still have contacts.
True. Forgot to mention that you don't get the network being passive. You have to actively seek it. A soso/poor geographic region will limit the network, but it's still there if you actively seek it.
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Yes, your pay in the United States would be much higher than you'd get paid in the same position in Europe. Taxes are also higher in Europe than in the US. It evens out a bit if you have dependents, or some other special circumstances. For a young person with no dependents or chronic medical conditions, financially US is going to be a much better choice.
That being said, you're not going to just automatically get a jr. dev position in the US right now. The layoffs have been brutal, and there are a lot of developers looking for jobs at the moment. I don't know how long the current conditions are going to last, but generally speaking a bad job market is the perfect time to go to school.
How confident are you about your startup employer's ability to operate? Startups are notoriously fickle. I would take a very hard look at the company, its funding, leaders and business idea before deciding to rely on them for enabling you to immigrate to Germany.
Echoing on "a bad job market is the perfect time to go to school". The bad job market will rebound. Don't fall into the AI destroy jobs narative, it will create more jobs, just different. Others mentions about good US education opening doors to the US job market. That is true and definitely warrants over working in EU just by itself, but the other priceless benefit to a good US education is the network of people to start doing things on your own should you decide that is what you want later.
To compound on this, four years at a college is a perfect time to build social connections to people who will be all over the industry in various ways.
A T200 school may be a bit more limiting to a geographic region, but you'll still have contacts.
True. Forgot to mention that you don't get the network being passive. You have to actively seek it. A soso/poor geographic region will limit the network, but it's still there if you actively seek it.