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Notes from inside the board

Numbers from the European tech market, measured rather than estimated. How long a role really stays open, who is actually hiring, plus an honest guide to everywhere else worth looking, and why this site is built the way it is.

  1. Data 6 min

    Tech jobs in Berlin: who is hiring, for what, and how much German you need

    1,710 open roles at 171 Berlin tech companies, counted: what they hire for, why only 15% of engineering roles require German, what published pay looks like, and the roles open right now.

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  2. Data 7 min

    What European employers actually ask software engineers for

    The requirements of 2,475 open software roles at 474 employers, counted: Python leads at 32%, two in three never mention a degree, and 18% now ask for AI experience.

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  3. Data 5 min

    How Europe's tech job market moved last week

    More roles closed than opened for the first time in this data. Germany and the UK still lead, software engineering kept growing, and remote and visa sponsorship stayed as scarce as ever. The numbers behind the 28 September week, and what to actually do with them.

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  4. Story 5 min

    How I got interviews at NVIDIA and Tesla while my friends could not get seen

    A recruiter told me they had taken 700 applications in three days, and that four in five were not relevant. The problem was never a shortage of good candidates it was where they landed in the pile.

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  5. Story 6 min

    I was applicant 700

    Why I stopped reading job boards and wrote something that reads a few hundred employers’ own career pages every hour instead.

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  6. Data 7 min

    How long a European tech job actually stays open

    Six thousand closed postings, measured from the hour they appeared: half are gone in ten days, and 3% never see a second morning.

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  7. Guide 11 min

    The best job boards for tech jobs in Europe (2026)

    Fourteen boards, what each one is actually for, what it costs, and where it gets its listings, including the one you are reading.

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  8. Data 8 min

    Who is actually hiring engineers in Europe right now

    The employers on this board, ranked by open roles, with the countries they are hiring into. Recomputed every time this page is loaded.

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  9. How this works 6 min

    Why nothing on this board is behind a login

    Boards that hide the employer’s name until you pay are selling you back something the employer published for free. Here is what is gated here, and what never will be.

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