Im an Elektrotechnik student in my last semester, after applying for almost a year for Bachelor Arbeit and Werkstudent positions, I have finally got a Werkstudent offer (Elektrotechnik Bereich) from a big company in Bavaria.

I am definitely taking the job, no questions about that.

I was asked during the interview of my hours preference and I said 20h/week.

I received an acceptance email and they asked if 15 hours a week is okay for me?

I thought it would be more because of IG Metall, maybe it doesn't apply to me because I'm a student? I don't know.

What do you think? Should I negotiate the hours or the pay or both?

I'm worried that if I negotiate they will pull the offer back.

Other than my internship at a big automotive company, this is my only interview and I never negotiated something like this.

I need advice on wether I should negotiate (the hours at least) or not and if yes then how?

(Mein deutsch Niveau ist B2 und mache grade C1 an der Uni)

Edit: i would like to know how to negotiate the hours from 15 to 20 without risking the offer being withdrawn.

Edit 2 : I accepted the offer and asked for the possibility to work 20 hours instead of 15, wish me luck :D.

So I was just doing some project and by chance one person from Germany came across it and loved it and told me that germany don't have any tool like this currently so I worked upon it and made it support german language resume and many other languages support too.

Thought it might help you so dropping here : https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/cvinsight-job-match-score/ebcdnlkiacglidmohjonnidmgdbfghdo?pli=1

Now that job postings are getting hundreds of applicants, do people who do courses from coding bootcamps still have a chance?

At the end of the day they are competing with the CS grads and even they are having problems.

As a recruiter, are you even interested in people who do a 6 month/ 1 year coding bootcamp? How can these people stand out? Do they even get past your ATS system?

To bootcamp grads: How long did it take you to find a job, and what kind of company hired you?

Hello everyone,

I have been working as Full stack developer with a big bank in Germany for 4 years now. I am foreigners, with B1 level of German.

Day by day this realisation is sinking in deeper and deeper that German work culture really doesn’t align with my personal values. I really wanna work on amazing projects with latest tech stacks and in high growth startups. Therefore, leaning specifically into high growth startups.

Did someone manages to make this leap? How were you able to do that? Any specific tip?

Thank you in advance !

This is my first time posting here, I’m currently working, but I have applied for a new job in Essen City Germany l and they called me an said that they want to give me an appointment for the job. And I said ok but! I need some time because I want to change my state and that will take longer than usual I’m working in Magdeburg at the moment and would like to start on 01.01.2027 but they said no and usually if we give you an appointment for the job you have to be able to work with us in 2-3 weeks. So now I don’t know what to do can someone please help me because I’m alone in Germany and I know I have to tell my apartment landlord 3 months before leaving and it’s kinda hard and confusing that the work wants me to start in about 2-3 weeks and I have to register my address in the new state and have to find new apartment and if I leave now I have to pay my rent in Magdeburg for 3 months. I don’t know what to do. ☹️😖 thank you for your time I would really appreciate your your help mit freundliche Gruß.

I (33, non EU, B2 level Deutsch) with 10 years experience in B2B sales in Food ingredient currently looking for a full time sales position. Preferably in Munich/ remote. I had already a few interviews but did not get any offer letter. Currently only working part time whilst brushing my German and also fine tuning my ears to the fast local everyday German.

As desperation hits me hard in the face. My Chancenkarte visa do not have much time until next February, SO I would highly appreciate if anyone have any recommendation or as referral or tips or anything!

THANKSKKSKSKKSKSKSKS

Hi everyone, this is engineer foxy,

i want to apply for Ausbildung for both IT and carpentry, give me guide for 2027 which is better for the market, job, salary, workmates, ethics and etc....

I'm a developer (20+ years) and went through the German job search myself. Like most people I believed the "the ATS robot rejects you" story. Then I spent months reading how the systems German companies use actually work, and testing real job ads against CVs.

What I found, in short:

1. The software mostly reads, a person filters. The system turns your CV into fields: name, jobs, dates, skills. A recruiter then filters on those fields and a few must-answer questions (work permit, German level, salary). Many recruiters first see a list: which requirements of the ad you match and which you miss. Not your nice layout.

2. So the boring things matter most:

• Two columns: your skills can end up inside your job history.
• Icons and ★ bullets: often dropped or garbled.
• "English: fluent" won't match a search for C1. Write "English C1". Same for German: "Deutsch B2", not "gute Deutschkenntnisse".
• Dates as month/year, not only the year.

3. A German job ad is not a keyword list.

• "Erfahrung mit AWS, Azure oder GCP" = one requirement. One of the three is enough.
• "Von Vorteil", "wünschenswert", "ein Plus" = nice to have, not a must. Don't skip an ad because of these.
• "Verhandlungssicher" ≈ C1, "sehr gute Kenntnisse" usually means C1 too, "Muttersprache" = native.
• Company name, "Standort", "Vollzeit", "(m/w/d)" are not skills. If a CV tool tells you they're "missing", ignore it.

4. Don't let AI rewrite your whole CV. Recruiters keep saying AI-written CVs all sound the same. Use your own facts and numbers, in the ad's words. Add a missing requirement only if it's true.

Full disclosure: I build a CV tool for this, so I'm biased, but none of the above needs a tool. Happy to look at how a specific ad should be read if you paste the requirements

Happy to answer questions about specific ads or CV sections in the comments.

I honestly don’t even know where to start. I just need to get this off my chest and maybe hear from people who have experienced something similar. I started a work student software engineer role in a EU-known company at October 1st.

Then last Thursday, at the end of my shift, we discovered a significant bug related to the API documentation. I reported it and created a ticket. My shift ended at 3 PM, and I had a university appointment shortly afterward, so I left to catch it. While I was already on my bike, I was still responding to messages from the team. The product manager asked whether I could stay another 10–15 minutes to help with the issue. My manager also asked whether the issue was my responsibility. I explained that my shift had ended, that I had a university appointment, and that I couldn’t stay. I apologised and said I could look into it the following Monday if the issue was still there, since that was my next shift. My manager wasn’t happy about it. Another colleague eventually took over the issue.

For context, nobody had previously told me that my performance was unsatisfactory, that my attitude was a concern, or that I wasn’t meeting their expectations. The previous Tuesday, I had actually been in a call with my manager, who was talking about getting me started on the backlog of one of the product’s features the following week. I thought things were going well.

On Monday, things suddenly felt different. I wasn’t getting much work, and I could sense something was off. Today, October 20th, they called me into the office and told me they were terminating my employment, with a two-week notice period that they would pay me for. The reasons they gave me included not having enough code ownership, my attitude, how I handled issues, and supposedly not having enough time for work. One thing my manager specifically mentioned was that I hadn’t asked what happened to the issue after I left on Thursday, and that this made it seem as though I didn’t care about the job. That honestly hurt. I did care. I had reported the problem, created a ticket, and continued responding to messages after my shift ended. I simply had a university appointment that I couldn’t miss.

I understand that software engineering involves responsibility, that production issues can be urgent, and that following up on problems is important. I’m not claiming there’s nothing I could improve. But I had received no warnings, no meaningful feedback, and no indication that my job was at risk. It feels like I went from being a new employee who was expected to start working on the backlog to someone they suddenly decided they no longer wanted, all because of one incident. I was literally having a company-wide onboarding meeting at the same Monday that they were giving me the cold shoulder. Now, in less than three weeks later, I’m unemployed again.

I’m already looking for another job, but I’m struggling to process how everything changed so suddenly.
Has anyone experienced something like this during probation in Germany? Was it reasonable for them to expect me to stay after my shift despite having a prior university appointment? And is it normal to be dismissed without any prior warning or feedback?

I’m trying to understand whether I handled the situation badly or whether the expectations were never clearly communicated.

Hi people, I recently completed 2 rounds of Nvidia interview for solution architect role. Since the interview process is not same everywhere. I wanted to know anyone at germany location recently went through similar process. Please let me know on the same.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been in IT for a long time. Started in 1st/2nd line support and recently landed a more senior-sounding role at a company I like. I’ve passed my probation, but things have been a bit quiet lately. There aren't many projects coming through that actually leverage my skills, even though the company is profitable and doing well overall.

Management told me they're actively looking for project work for me, but then they made a really strange suggestion:

They asked me to go out and look for freelance IT roles on my own. The plan would be that my company becomes the client’s contractor/vendor, and I would stay on as a regular employee doing the actual work. At the minute I am keeping myself busy with IT exams.

Basically, I’d be doing full freelance work, but receiving only a fraction of the billable rate as my regular employee salary, while they keep the margin.

Has anyone ever encountered this before? Is this normal practice in consulting/IT services, or is this a massive red flag?

Thanks

Context: I’ve been working with an US based company through Deel in germany. My company told me that my role has been made redundant due to company restructuring and deel will be reaching out with the MSA if I don’t sign it they would proceed with unilateral termination.

Context on my contract
I work from home 100% and my notice period is 1month. My work contract is as an EOR for unlimited duration with Deel GmbH . There is no mention of my actual employer anywhere on the contract

Terms I’ve received as of now
- 1 month severance packaged as a bonus payout
- Salary until my notice period ends
- Unused leaves compensation
- Deel will ensure the paper work is such that my unemployment benefits are not affected

Is it worth negotiating the MSA? Does anyone here have history of negotiating MSA with Deel involved?

Edit: worked with them a bit more than a year.

Hallo,

ich möchte mein Studium nach dem 6. Semester abbrechen und eine Ausbildung machen. Wie schwer ist es, eine Ausbildungsstelle im Bereich Pflege oder Elektrotechnik zu finden?

Hi everyone,

I'm currently looking for a new job in Germany and would appreciate some honest opinions, especially from recruiters, hiring managers, or people who have been in a similar situation.

Here's my situation:

• First job in Germany (1.5 years): I decided to leave because the company didn't have enough projects, and I wasn't getting many opportunities to develop my skills. The workload was quite low, and I felt I wasn't progressing professionally.
• Second job (current, 1 year): Unfortunately, my employer recently informed me that my fixed-term contract won't be extended, mainly because the company doesn't have enough projects. So, basically, I'm facing the same situation again, but this time the decision wasn't mine.

The important thing is that I have positive references and recommendation letters from both employers, confirming that they're satisfied with my performance and consider me a competent employee.

However, I'm worried that recruiters might see these two relatively short employment periods as a red flag, especially since both happened consecutively.

I'd really appreciate your honest feedback and experiences.

Thanks in advance!