Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "Working in Sweden as a Software Engineer: The TRUTH About Work Culture and Work-Life Balance" video.

@-xziaz-7839 The tax is not that different from any other European country with healthcare and education paid by taxes. For an example of actual cost of living in practice, try video titled "LIFE AT MINIMUM WAGE: USA vs. Germany | Housing, Utilities, Food & More!"
31
12:30 Here in Finland, if you're on vacation and you get sick, you get your vacation days back because you're sick and couldn't use those. However, first three days of the holiday are called "omavastuu" which means that you won't get those back because it is considered to be on your own risk but if you are on longer holiday (e.g. 4 weeks during the summer) and you get sick for a week or two, you only lose 3 days worth of your holiday. To receive this benefit, you have to contact your employer immediately when you get sick on your vacation and get doctor's note for the sickness.
19
2:30 I wish many more young people would share your viewpoint that understanding how the hardware works makes you a better developer! I think that even if you only code in C# or Java which implement automatic garbage collection ("managed language") you should still understand what happens under the hood and which operations are fast and which are slow because of the underlying runtime system and hardware. Way too many fresh software developers have zero understanding how computers actually work on hardware level.
5
As a senior employee (more than 15 years of work experience) here in Finland, I get 38 paid vacation days per year. I personally feel that's excessive but I guess that's better in long run.
2