On: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)

[TypingOutBugs]

The trivial reason would be no need to support visas, but happy to pay to incentivise you to move there

[ecuaflo → TypingOutBugs]

Not being in the EU doesn’t mean you need a visa.

[arrowsmith → ecuaflo]

Er... yes it does? If you're not an EU citizen then you need a visa to work in an EU country.

[ecuaflo → arrowsmith]

Why do you think EU citizens are confined to the EU?

[TypingOutBugs → ecuaflo]

This is an EU role restricted to EU citizens with some financial help to relocate? They’re not confined, but no one said that

[arrowsmith → TypingOutBugs]

I assume the job is for EU citizens, with relocation assistance available. They phrase this as “we can only relocate candidates who are in the EU”.

GP is here to point that this is a misleading way to phrase it because “EU citizens” isn’t synonymous with “people who live in the EU”, which is insufferably pedantic even by the standards of HN.

[TypingOutBugs → arrowsmith]

Oh, that’s just annoying lol. Thanks for pointing that out, thought it was a US person not aware of EU citizen movement rights

[ecuaflo → TypingOutBugs]

It’s the difference between residents and citizens being eligible to apply. Actually, restricting non-resident citizens from applying could violate their rights.

[mbrain → TypingOutBugs]

For Germany specific Blue Card, company doesn't really need to support the candidate, its fairly straight forward and easy to obtain if the candidate has the salary & degree for BC, they just need a job contract.