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Asked by TheBrexitBacon to Fran, Peppe, Greg, Petros, Pooja on 15 Nov 2017.
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Pooja Narayan answered on 15 Nov 2017:
Best I would say would be Silicon Valley, California for an engineer.
Japan, India, China, Singapore are good on the eastern frontiers.
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Greg Chance answered on 15 Nov 2017:
Any that will support what you want to do and fit in with your work-life balance. USA could be interesting with big budgets but don’t expect much holiday time! Europe is really thriving in robotics and AI at the moment, choose your favourite country!
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Petros Papapanagiotou answered on 16 Nov 2017:
The UK is a great place for software engineers. The US definitely have the biggest market and best opportunities, but the culture of work there is very different from Europe, so it may take a bit to get used to it. I don’t think it matters which country you go to. It matters more which company you will work for and the opportunities to gain experience, learn new things and progress your career.
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Fran Zuch answered on 16 Nov 2017:
I think the country that supports what you would like to do 🙂 – there are some great international collaborations happening and they then usually have placements in different countries, for example, the EU initiative to build plasma reactors, they have stuff happening in France, Germany, India, Japan and the EU budget is sorted for very many years. Places like CERN in Geneva are great, any place where lots of scientists and engineers get together I suppose and like Pooja mentioned, Silicon Valley is another one.
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Giuseppe Cotugno answered on 17 Nov 2017:
It depends what you are looking for. If you mind a lot of salary and career EU countries might not give you as much as possibly North American countries, like USA, would give you. If you want to keep a balance between salary and quality of job, probably continental Europe is a good bet, Germany especially (HSBC published a report on this few weeks ago, it can give some ideas but it is not very scientific in my opinion). EU countries tend to specialise on some businesses and some type of products. Italy, for example, produces a lot of software which is meant to support other companies (databases, websites etc.) and has little space for Research Engineers and companies rarely engage with universities (despite the fact those are very good).
In the EU, I think the most interesting jobs are concentrated in the UK and in Germany, as companies in those country cooperate with universities a lot and some of the most innovative products are developed there. Most companies that were looking for robotics engineers for first where in UK and in Germany (now other companies in other countries are also looking for such high specialisation) and a lot of products are developed there. First hand example: Johnson and Johnson Medical develops its products in UK (if I recall correctly) and the Italian branch develops the systems which supports the sales and the information of the organisation (many Italian companies do similar jobs). Regardless of where you want to go, bear in mind that language can be a big problem and limitation. In Germany it is expected to be spoken German, English is tolerated but not favoured, in Italy people are unable to speak in understandable English, etc.
That said, if you like to see how it is living in foreign countries, the EU offers things like Erasmus projects (you study abroad) or Leonardo project (you work abroad) and there are other students associations such as BEST (board of European students on technology, for engineers and mathematicians) which can fund you study visits to EU countries. I did or engaged with those initiatives and I really benefit a lot and expanded my way of thinking. If you worry you might not be able to apply to any of them because of Brexit, I think this will be also part of the negotiations (for BEST I think even Turkey is a member, although it is not in the EU)
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