[novagameco]

What do you mean by DACH mentality?

[polotics]

DACH would be: (D)eutschland (A)ustria (C)onfederatio (H)elvetica... This acronym manages to use three different languages, german for Deutschland, english for Austria (which is Österreich) and the latin name for Switzerland... Don't ask me, it is very dubious to use this DACH hodgepodge term here, as definitely mentalities are different: the state of IT is in no way identical between these three countries. Also, Dach stands for "roof" in German, I guess that's why they like it. maybe

[petesergeant]

Those are the EU plate letters for each fwiw

[_nalply]

DACH = Deutschland (D) - Austria (A) - Switzerland (CH)

but DACH mentality? Perhaps hard-working like people in Germany, Austria and Switzerland? Or overengineering or being stubborn and old-fashioned?

[monomers]

The German social contract for a long time was that the working class gets low wages, which keeps German exports competitive and combined with the large internal market, prices low. In return for making the owning class wealthy, workers also get a relatively good social support system and job security.

I'm not sure this model ever applied to A & CH, and might be starting to collapse in D as well.

[raverbashing]

> Or overengineering or being stubborn and old-fashioned?

Exactly this

[shortrounddev2]

Low salaries to me indicates they believe it is a Germanic ideal to pay subpar wages for highly skilled engineers? I don't think it's a mentality thing, personally, I think it just speaks to the weakness of the European economy for the last 20ish years

[attendant3446]

Definitely the latter.

[croisillon]

german speaking countries

[_nalply]

Nitpick: Luxemburg, Belgium (around Eupen), Italy (Tirol) and France (Alsace) are also German speaking countries.

Historically, too: Poland, Czechia, Hungary and Romania, but German speaking communities have disappeared or are in massive decline.

Disclaimer: this list of German speaking countries might be incomplete.