On 2013-12-17, 11:06, stef wrote:
despite german government seemingly having serious problems recruiting competent devs for producing their own malware and thus being forced to procure this from front companies of allied agencies. in germany either moral standards are higher and/or social pressure does work?
I think that this cannot be used in evidence. The plain fact is that the German government will pay only a fraction of what a company would pay. As an example (even though not one that could be applied to a job with the federal government as a civil servant, but which I nevertheless believe to be comparable), a PhD being paid according to the pay grade known as TVöD 14 Step 1 will take home a base salary of roughly 1700 Euros, after taxes. Also, prospects for promotion are slim and the bureaucracy is terrible and cannot be evaded. Best, Stephan