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[gedw99]

Hey,

i am moving to Berlin. I have 10 years experience but wondering if it wil be hard to get a job if i have no German ??

I was told that Berlin is the only place in Germany where you can get by without German.

Regards

Gerard Webb

[Nils Hitze]

Hi Gerard, maybe you should tell a little bit about you, so we can decide what your chances are :)

2011/10/18 gedw99 <ged...@gmail.com>

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[Stefan Hoth (Co-Lead)]

Hey Gerard,

sorry your first mail didn't get approved in time and now is somehow gone.

Anyway: Welcome to Berlin!

Regarding your question: Yes, there's a growing community of non-German techies here in Berlin. The scene with the most growth is the startup scene - high energy, high speed but also high risk and low payment (mostly). If you'd be interested in that: http://berlinstartupjobs.com

Finding jobs in the non-startup-community is a bit harder but using LinkedIn or the German clone XING it should be possible.

Regarding German: Yes, I know a lot of non-natives who get along very easy in Berlin without speaking any word of German. In fact this is becoming more and more a problem since they don't need to learn the language to get through the day - so they don't.

Feel free to ask more questions, we'll try to help.

- Stefan

PS: To get in touch with more English speaking Berlin residents you should checkout the several English groups at www.meetup.com 

[gedw99]

Good Point.

I just read this and cried ! It paints a not so good picture for Englsh speakers in Berlin.

http://www.ota-berlin.de/blog/06/09/working-in-berlin-english-language-jobs-a-list-job-sites-%E2%80%93-by-ota-berlin-constituency-blog-contributor-evo-lucian/

i am moving to Berlin because my partner has a job as a neuroscient in a lab there as a Post Doc.

I am also glad to be leaving Sweden. Its cold and and a bit of lonely place i feel. Happy to be gong somewhere with more of a vibe and otgoing people.
I am very outgoing generally.

I am 41 and have worked in It for 10 years in London mostly.

I am an Australian, but speak Spanish also.

Work skills.

Mostly c# in enterprise projects for banks, energy and pharma.

But more lately in web projects with michy less experience programmers and highly agile.

Currently i am systems architect at a games company in Stockholm with 22 people and 3 teams.

I work acros the tams as well as on strategy and network and hardware infrastructure.

i am very much an all rounder, but still code basically.

So i love responsibility as i have gotten used to it and have allot of experience across the board.

Skills:

c#, sql, javascript, SQL and No Sql. ORM, Messaging. Have used lots of stuff over the years.

I still code but am involved in running trams both in house and outsourced allot and working through requirements through to technical.

I have used Redis an CouchDB also.

i developed my own CMS which i later sold to another company to take over. It was c# based but ran on Mono also.

CV is Here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lvp9gvwUxHhqdtNQMFZk5HtCNxFqEFXSY-YjZkwgz4c/edit?authkey=CKXC7JsK&hl=en_US&authkey=CKXC7JsK

Contact details there too :)

Regards

Gerard Webb

[gedw99]

hehe - Yes i was wondering if i was losing my memory :)

thanks for the links and tips. I will definitely follwow them up tonight !!.

Glad to hear its possible to get by without German...

I work for a startup now. Its fun and i get paid 40 euros an hour currently. My role is strategic mostly as a Systems Architect managing 3 teams and the global deisng and steering the ship strategically. I code every few days also when required to roll sleeves up to mentor developers,

Regards

Gerard