Detailed map of Amsterdam - streets, house numbers, areas. Salaries and cost of living in the Netherlands

Yuri Shishkin spoke about doing business with partners from Amsterdam and asked IT specialists from Russia about moving, living and working in this city. He also calculated the cost of living in the Netherlands.

When moving abroad, Russian specialists more often prefer innovative companies from the USA or dynamically growing Asian brands, and from European countries they choose Great Britain and Germany, leaving the quiet Holland with its measured life only for tourist trips.

Amsterdam. Photo: citiesipcc.org

In vain: the labor market in the Netherlands is in great need of IT professionals. There are few local universities, and employers often invite programmers or designers from abroad. For this reason, many companies here are international: in them you can meet people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia.

How we made connections with Amsterdam

Four years ago, our agency developed a service for LG Electronics that connects the product card in the manufacturer's online catalog with the retailer's website. To do this, we used the Yandex.Market API, but later decided to develop our own platform and closed access to the API.

Having studied foreign solutions, we found that the Dutch company Hatch has an analogue. We held a meeting in Moscow and eventually became an official partner of Hatch in implementing the Where to buy service in Russia.

Different corporate culture

Every time I come to Hatch I notice different features the work of the company.

Hatch CEO Joris Kroese, technical Director 24ttl Vitaly Klimov and Yuri Shishkin at the Hatch office in Amsterdam

For example, the level of order. All important meetings and calls here are carried out exclusively according to the calendar, the team uses the corporate one. Contract drafting, invoicing and other important documentation are fully automated using various tools such as the PandaDoc workflow service and the HubSpot CRM.

But what is most surprising is how much attention our Dutch partner pays to building relationships in the team. Management always strives to keep the team informed of what is happening, using the most unusual means, for example, visualization of work progress. Let's say a company has set a goal to conclude 10 contracts. To show how this process is moving, they put a plastic pipe in the office and put colored balls in it. When it fills up, it's sure to be celebrated with a cold Heineken.

Celebrating your success is generally an important point in the work of Dutch companies. In Russia, this is much less developed: sometimes half of the office does not even know that the company has won a tender, received an award, and is included in the rating.

In general, it is pleasant to do business with the Dutch - they are attentive to their partners, approaching -relationships almost the same as for B2C: they preserve the history of relations, fix all agreements. There is a lot of respect for this.

During my next trip to Amsterdam, I talked with several IT specialists from - they talked about how they moved and how they work here.

Evgeniy, 41, Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Payconiq

Saint Petersburg - Antwerp - Amsterdam

I've been developing since 1999. Until 2012, he lived in St. Petersburg and collaborated with large companiesand with startups, I managed to work even on Pension Fund... In 2005 I got a job in international company Alcatel-Lucent and began to travel frequently on business trips to Europe, where he looked for the first point of crossing - the Belgian Antwerp. Alcatel-Lucent had a branch there, and they practically transferred me: they issued a visa, paid for and organized the transportation of things, provided accommodation for the first time.

Antwerp, view of the central square and the Scheldt river. Photo: ptpcycle-europe.eu

I spent about three years in Antwerp, after which I realized that it was too small for me (only 250 thousand inhabitants). Amsterdam, with a similar level of comfort and friendliness, but with a population of 3 times larger, seemed to me more lively and dynamic, and I moved there - first to work at BackBase, and then at Hatch.

Hatch had an unusual international team: an IT architect from Ukraine, a frontend developer from Moscow, a UI / UX designer from Armenia and myself, a senior backend developer from St. Petersburg. At that time specialists from Greece, Australia, France, Great Britain also worked in the company.

There is a stereotype that the Dutch are very straightforward, they always say what they think. But I would not say that in this they are somehow different from the Russians. It is quite comfortable to work with them - unlike, for example, the British, whom, in my opinion, it is much more difficult for Russians to understand.

The corporate culture here is based on an informal approach: the management does not isolate itself from the employees, everyone goes to rest together, and organizes beer parties on Fridays. At Hatch, the cool thing was to vote for the best colleague of the week. The winner received an envelope with some kind of prize: a day off for a couple of hours, a flyer for a free pizza, etc.

Arseniy, 37, Director of Technology Strategy (Enterprise Architect), BinckBank

Saint Petersburg - Amsterdam

My education has nothing to do with what I have been doing for the past 15 years. I am an Ethiopist by profession, graduated from the Faculty of Oriental Studies of St. Petersburg State University, but as soon as I had access to the Internet, I started making websites. His passion for computers grew into work, then into his own business and projects for companies in the USA, Great Britain and continental Europe.

In 2014, I got a client who changed my life - the Dutch startup Pritle, which automated the management of investments in stock markets. It needed a specialist to manage development, architecture, and all the technology-related stuff. So in 2015 my family and I moved to Amsterdam. The decision was difficult, but quick.

Port of Amsterdam. Photo: Unsplash

In six months, three more colleagues from St. Petersburg have joined my team. It is very easy to get a work visa for this. You need to prove to the IND (Immigration and Naturalization Service) that the company is innovative and not easy to hire the right people in the Netherlands. The process is free of bureaucracy and takes place very quickly: a week to submit an application and another two weeks to obtain a residence permit.

After a couple of years of running a startup, my colleagues and I realized that we had exhausted growth opportunities and moved under the wing of the online broker BinckBank, where I am responsible for strategy at the bank's level.

Holland is a terribly socialist country. If you have a permanent contract, it is almost impossible to fire you. Maybe that's why the Dutch are not the most hard-working nation in the world, I almost never met workaholics. It is very important for them to have a hobby, spend time with their family, and play sports. That is, living fully is more important than working.

Dutch is difficult to learn because everyone in Amsterdam speaks English. But the Dutch from the hinterland, no less than foreign tourists, are shocked by such metropolitan phenomena as coffee shops and the red light district.

After five years of living in Holland, you can pass a simple language exam and apply for either citizenship (you will have to give up Russian) or for a permanent residence permit. Both are almost certainly given if you have not had fines of more than 800 euros over the past three years.

Vadim, 33, Senior Web Developer, Catawiki Online Auction

Moscow - Amsterdam

I am a computer systems engineer by education, and since 2006 I have been professionally engaged in web development. He always traveled a lot and never gave up the idea of \u200b\u200bliving in another country. At the same time, I studied English, signed up for Skype interviews with Western companies.

In 2015, the events in Crimea, the collapse of the ruble and a wave of jingoistic patriotism gave me an impetus to change the situation. At the same time, a close friend of mine went to work in Spain. All this convinced me that it was time to pack my suitcase.

Despite the fact that I have lived in Moscow for almost 10 years and worked in a comfortable position in, I started sending out my resume. Initially, I was aiming for Berlin, because I had been there many times and I love this city very much, but on the advice of a friend I responded to one vacancy in the Netherlands.

I passed a test task and a series of interviews, flew to a personal meeting - and now I have been working at Catawiki for over two years.

Our team consists of almost a hundred people, distributed between two offices: in Amsterdam and in Assen, the capital of the province of Drenthe in the north-east of the country. We have an international staff: in addition to the Dutch, there are employees from Italy, Greece, Russia, Belarus, Armenia - a total of about 40 nationalities. There are a lot of guys from the CIS, and they are all very cool.

The first thing you pay attention to when working in dutch company - managment structure. Here it is horizontal, not only in words: you can quite realistically approach the CEO or the head of some department and express your idea, doubts or ask a question.

Salaries and cost of living in the Netherlands

  • The average salary required to obtain Kennismigrant (Highly Qualified Immigrant) status and legally move to the country is € 4,756.32 per month for people over 30 and € 3,487.32 for people under 30.
  • Experienced professionals receive approximately € 55,000-60,000 per year. If you have any special skills, knowledge and experience, the annual income can reach € 90,000. On average, the salary spread is between € 35,000 and € 85,000.

  • With high salaries in the Netherlands, taxes are quite high - up to 40%. Nevertheless, there is a pleasant bonus for visiting highly qualified specialists - a 30% tax deduction, that is, the opportunity not to pay taxes on a third of their income during the first 8 years of work here. True, now they want to reduce this period to 5 years.
  • The cost of renting a studio apartment in the center of Amsterdam or an inexpensive kopeck piece on the outskirts starts from € 1600 per month + utilities.
  • Among the compulsory (for all residents of the Netherlands over 18 years of age) are medical insurance, which entitles you to a free visit to a family doctor (Huisarts, actually a local general practitioner) and a fairly wide range of medical services. It costs about € 100 per month.

SkyLounge Amsterdam bar. Photo: skyloungeamsterdam.com

  • An average dinner with wine in a metropolitan restaurant costs about € 35–40, a glass of beer in a bar - from € 4 to € 7, a cinema ticket - € 12. By the way, new films, as a rule, are shown in cinemas on english language with Dutch credits.
  • Mobile communication - € 35 per month with unlimited traffic in the Netherlands and 10GB in Europe. Home Internet and TV - from € 45 per month.

Here is a map of Amsterdam with streets → North Holland province, Netherlands. We study a detailed map of Amsterdam with houses and streets. Real time search, weather today, coordinates

More about the streets of Amsterdam on the map

A detailed map of the city of Amsterdam with the names of streets and villages will be able to show all routes and roads of the province of North Holland, where st. Damstraat, which country, the vicinity of the capital. Are located nearby.

For a detailed view of the territory of the entire district, it is enough to change the scale of the online scheme +/-. On the page is an interactive map-plan of the city of Amsterdam (Netherlands) with addresses and routes of the region, with the direction of movement. Move its center to find Amstelstraat now.

Possibility to plot a route through the territory of the country and calculate the distance - the "Ruler" tool, find out the length of the city and the way to the center, addresses of sights of the region, transport stops and hospitals (type of "Hybrid" scheme), see the stations and borders of the province of North Holland.

What to see:

  1. anne Frank House Museum
  2. vondel park
  3. rembrandt art museum
  4. Amsterdam zoo
  5. Royal Palace
  6. gothic church Aude Kerk
  7. hermitage on Amstel

You will find all the necessary detailed information about the location of urban infrastructure - stations and shops, squares and banks, highways and highways, metro stations.

Accurate satellite map of Amsterdam in Russian with Google search is in its own section, panoramas as well. Use Yandex search to show the desired house on the Netherlands / world city map, in real time. ... St. Kerkstraat will help you navigate the terrain.

Coordinates - 52.3614,4.9055

Find a map of a city, village, region or country

Amsterdam. Yandex map.

Allows you to: change the scale; measure distances; switch display modes - diagram, satellite view, hybrid. The mechanism of Yandex maps is used, it contains: districts, street names, house numbers, etc. objects of cities and large villages, allows you to perform search by address (square, avenue, street + house number, etc.), for example: "Lenin street 3", "Amsterdam hotels", etc.

If you didn't find something, try the section google satellite map: Amsterdam or a vector map from OpenStreetMap: Amsterdam .

Link to the object of your choice on the map can be sent by e-mail, icq, sms or posted on the site. For example, to show the meeting point, delivery address, the location of a store, cinema, station, etc.: align the object with the marker in the center of the map, copy the link on the left above the map and send it to the addressee - using the marker in the center, he will determine the place you specified ...

Amsterdam - online map with satellite view: streets, houses, districts and other objects.

To change the scale, use the mouse scroll wheel, the "+ -" slider on the left, or the "Zoom in" button in the upper left corner of the map; to see a satellite view or a national map - select the corresponding menu item in the upper right corner; to measure the distance - click the ruler at the bottom right and draw points on the map.

 

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