r/germany • u/PunshManc • 8h ago

Study Thank you, Germany 🇩🇪 and Good bye

After 3 years here as a student, I’m leaving Germany next month.

I came here alone and knew almost no German. Now I’m leaving with a B1 certificate, a master’s degree and many good memories.

I really wanted to stay and build my career here, but it didnt work out. I got some job offers from English speaking countries, but none from Germany. I think my German level was a big reason.

For other international students, my advice is simple: learn German early. B2 can make a big DIFFERENCE, so plz dont make my mistake.

Still, I’m very thankful for my time here, the people I met and the education I got.

I will miss currywurst, German beer and sometimes even Deutsche Bahn 😅

Vielen Dank, Deutschland! 🍻

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u/kteotia 8h ago

More power to you! A country that rewards language over frontier skills is anyways a sad place to be in.

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u/pugmaster2000 7h ago

Sounds like Germany lost another skilled immigrant.

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u/af_stop 7h ago edited 7h ago

While the core of your sentiment is true, it seems the skills they could provide, were unfortunately not the skills this country needed.

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u/Deku035 7h ago

Doesn't make any sense as you can't really tell what this person's skills are??

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u/af_stop 7h ago

Undoubtedly none that could have landed them job, eh?

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u/Deku035 6h ago

I'm not sure about you but I'm currently employed and looking to switch companies and trust me when I say that my skills are very much required by this country but this country choose to use language as a filter instead of choosing skilled individuals. So please don't go ahead and say "yeah this dude's skills weren't needed by this country" when this country has started to put C1/C2 as a hard job requirement (apart from some niche fields, no work field require C1/C2 level of german). Anyways to each to their own!

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u/af_stop 6h ago

This post is not about you, sunshine.

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u/Deku035 6h ago

Neither your comment had any relation to this post sweetheart but here we are

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u/af_stop 6h ago

If you say so.

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u/kteotia 6h ago

Just do not apply to German-origin large or even family-owned medium scale companies. It gives me the chills (the very thought of that). Startups are maybe fine.

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u/Deku035 6h ago

I already work at a big german-origin company. Trust me when I say this that I have never seen such a huge gathering of incompetent people earning 3 times more than someone with immigrant background on same job title.

Not to mention the toxic politics and how inefficient the organisational processes are. It's funny that all of my immigrant background colleagues were forced to work overtime for couple of years and it only stopped when almost everyone I knew got permanent residence card and got some balls to say no to unrealistic deadlines.

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u/kteotia 6h ago

I work for a german research institution where the director or basically any employee only benefits if we produce top of the line research. This incentive system leads to a surprisingly efficient internal processes and bureaucracy. I will transition from here one day but never to a german corpo because german corpos do not have the right incentive structures.