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30 votes
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In Norway, children walk to school aged six, or even travel across the country. Why do these kids have so much independence, while other countries are so risk-averse?
30 votes -
Norwegian and or European salary expectations?
Short version: is there a levels.fyi or equivalent for employees in the European Economic Area (EEA)? How do I figure out what an equivalent employee in Norway makes vs one in the US? Long...
Short version: is there a levels.fyi or equivalent for employees in the European Economic Area (EEA)? How do I figure out what an equivalent employee in Norway makes vs one in the US?
Long version: I just found out my partner got the offer for a job that'll force relocation to Norway from the US for a new role. My current role, schedule, and responsibilities will likely work just fine in Norway and I expect that I can keep my job if I pitch it correctly to the executive team. I need to figure out what:
- I should be making
- What potential hires from Norway or the EEA would need to make
I work as the Head of AI running a team of 4 technical (ML Engineers) and non-technical (Data Capture technicians) people in a Series A startup. I am the Engineering Manager, the Team Lead, the Tech Lead, an IC, and periodically do pre-sales and technical customer support/onboarding. My team is all new, basically, having been hired in the last 90 days or less, and I am excited to delegate after finishing their onboarding! Currently, I have 1% equity and make $200,000. My role is remote and requires 20-30% travel. Where I live now is actually more expensive for flying across the US than from Oslo and about the same time factoring layovers, so travel costs will decrease. Due to how meeting schedules work out, no meetings will have to be moved to accommodate me at all. Is advocating for maintaining the same salary correct or should it decrease given the higher worker protections and benefits required by Norwegian employment law? Separately, what would hiring Norwegian employees look like from a comp perspective? I'd really like to keep this job and make a strong case for why it won't be a huge net-negative for the company.
10 votes -
Meet the Henriksen family, where all three children were born on consequent bissextile years – the most siblings born on a Leap Day in history
6 votes -
When Rakel took over the last farm in her Norwegian village, she was not only taking responsibility for a flock of sheep, but also a way of life at a crossroads
2 votes -
Links forged half a century ago with Gaza City mean that support for Palestine goes well beyond gesture politics in Tromsø, Norway
8 votes -
London's traditional Christmas tree has been felled in Norway ahead of its trip to Trafalgar Square
11 votes -
A vast northern European project is underway to combat isolation by promoting inclusion – we take a look at the results in Norway
9 votes -
Life on Europe's only open Schengen border with Russia – in the Barents Sea, Russia maintains cordial relations with NATO neighbours over fishing rights
7 votes -
After many years, migrant workers in Norway won legal protection from exploitative agencies – but now a European Free Trade Association ruling puts progress in peril
3 votes -
The war in Ukraine is heightening tensions between Russians and Norwegians living on Svalbard | Focus on Europe
8 votes -
Marriage between cousins and extended family members may soon be banned in Norway
26 votes -
Norwegian preschoolers get early exposure to outdoor life by hiking routes around kindergartens
20 votes -
The highest-ranking penguin in the world, Sir Nils Olav III, has been promoted to Major General by the Norwegian King's Guard
41 votes -
Why do so many Scots cling to a false affinity with Norway?
10 votes -
Life in Ny-Ålesund, the world's northern-most research station – in pictures
7 votes -
In accordance with annual tradition, a Norwegian Christmas tree has arrived in Trafalgar Square, London – this year marks the 75th anniversary
4 votes -
Catching up with new Norwegians, twenty-five years on – in 1996, a group of young people living in Norway were interviewed about what it meant to be Norwegian
4 votes -
For asylum seekers, Norway is a sanctuary but even in remote towns, Muslim refugees say they face surveillance and threats
2 votes -
Photojournalist Giuia Besana visits the world's northernmost priest who runs the Svalbard Church in Longyearbyen, in Norway's Svalbard archipelago
6 votes -
Are we at war with Norway? – Brits mock sad gifted Trafalgar Square Christmas tree
8 votes -
It's been ten years since seventy-seven people were massacred in a far-right terror attack in Utøya – ten years on, what has changed in Norway?
15 votes -
Norway approves Utøya memorial for victims of 2011 massacre, despite local concerns – memorial is expected to be ready for the tenth anniversary of the attacks on 22nd July
8 votes -
Sámi National Day – National day that falls on February 6th. This date was when the first Sámi congress was held in 1917 in Trondheim, Norway
11 votes -
Norway arrests highlight impact of pandemic on sex workers – governments should include sex workers in public health and financial support responses
6 votes -
One woman, four men bound for the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard on a four-month expedition that covered more than 4,500 miles
5 votes -
Philip Manshaus's trial raises important questions about the role of freedom of speech in enabling far-right extremism
5 votes -
How Norway made a more humane prison
6 votes -
Crossing Antarctica solo – Børge Ousland's lonely journey across the ice
7 votes -
Match on dating app Tinder helps rescue camper trapped in ice in northern Norway
7 votes -
Norway opens its doors to six hundred people evacuated from Libya to Rwanda
9 votes -
Oslo saw zero pedestrian and cyclist deaths in 2019 – reducing the number of cars reduced the number of traffic fatalities
5 votes -
'A present from Norway and it's dead' – Christmas tree unites London in dismay
8 votes -
Ukraine has become the 100th country to endorse the Safe Schools Declaration – a Norwegian initiative to make schools safer even during war
10 votes -
From an Oslo forest comes the Christmas gift Norway gives Britain every year – a towering tree for London's Trafalgar Square
7 votes -
Women in Norway have the best quality of life according to the latest Women, Peace and Security Index
6 votes -
Norway's last coal miners fight for survival against climate policy
6 votes -
When Oslo's first floating sauna was banned by port authorities, its owners took it on the run, sparking a public craze
7 votes -
Mystery disease kills dozens of dogs across Norway as officials scramble to find cause
7 votes -
Kirkenes, the Arctic town at the centre of a Norway-Russia spy war
4 votes -
Norway's consumer watchdog has criticised fast-fashion chain H&M for misleading marketing of its sustainable collection
7 votes -
Hasina Shirzad – After leaving Afghanistan I was unprepared for life in a country where tasks are not strictly divided between the sexes
10 votes -
How Norway turns criminals into good neighbours
12 votes -
The Norwegian city of Sommarøy wants to abolish time
9 votes