Shawn Ghosh

Hiring managers for my @OpenAI Startups Applied AI team, across Europe 🇪🇺 (London, Paris, Munich, Berlin) You'll run a team filled with ex-founder/CTO, research eng, MLEs. They're awesome, so you should care as much about people + culture as high performance. Details ⬇️

STATE OF THE TECH JOB MARKET IN 2026 Twice a year, I dig into trends in hiring and job openings. This is the fifth report I've done, and the most surprising yet: 1. PMs are winning in the AI era 2. Engineering demand has stalled 3. Design openings are at a record low 4. Every role now requires AI skills 5. Tech jobs are concentrating in the Bay Area 6. Remote roles are at a record low 7. The tech job market is growing fast, but mostly outside of software (gasp!) Full report here: lennysnewsletter.com/p/state…

People think 🇳🇱 Amsterdam has no startup activity. You'll be surprised to learn that Amsterdam startups are hiring salespeople like crazy right now. Here are 15 of them: - @databricks (4 open sales roles) - @Checkout (3 open sales roles) - @Navan (3 open sales roles) - @SailPoint (3 open sales roles) - @perk_global (2 open sales roles) - @grafana (2 open sales roles) - @zscaler (2 open sales roles) - @moveworks (2 open sales roles) - @wiz_io (1 open sales role) - @CatoNetworks (1 open sales role) - @DecagonAI (1 open sales role) - @PaddleHQ (1 open sales role) - @GoAppier (1 open sales role) - @AWNetworks (1 open sales role) - @corgi_insurance (1 open sales role) 30+ open sales roles across these and 2 other Amsterdam startups. Join thousands of job-seekers who've used the platform to find their next gig: NextDoor.Company 💬 Which Amsterdam startup hiring salespeople did I miss? 🔗 Tag your company if hiring actively in the comments 👇

Ambitious devs in Central and Eastern Europe often work top tech jobs. Much more often than ambitious devs in Western Europe. To explain why, let's take an example of an ambitious dev in Europe open for relocation: me, a few years ago. 1. Understand some countries like 🇨🇭 pay more 2. Understand big tech pays more 3. Miss out on high-pay remote knowledge (my bad) To maxx $$$ -> target Big Tech Switzerland. Finally succeed (theeuropeanengineer.com/p/ho…), but... Before that, several times, faced a dilemma: "I just got an offer for Uber Amsterdam, Microsoft Tallinn, Bloomberg London, Swiss company in Zurich" "They all kinda pay the same, in fact the Swiss company kinda pays more" ... follows calculation of cost of living, taxes, possibility of growth, quality of life, etc etc etc ... (later shared on theeuropeanengineer.com/ or eurotoptech.com/data) Result: - same dev - local swiss job - big tech offers in lower pay Euro hubs --- This to say what? A big tech job in Romania is as competitive, if not less, than a normal job in Switzerland. Saying "on @EuroTopTech data it seems like CEE countries have more cracked devs in high-pay remote or big tech than in WE, which reads like a sample bias" is a wrong read. The truth is that @GergelyOrosz model only captures part of the picture (company tier), but misses out on incredibly important dimensions such as: - location - remote work and geoarbitrage - continent-wide market and competition @EuroTopTech community (and data) is about ambitious tech workers in Europe. In CEE countries, they often land: - big tech roles - high pay US remote - high pay UK/EU remote It's a large pool of jobs, with moderate competition: - Not everyone wants to move to Romania to work at Adobe - Not everyone would consider a 100k eur remote job competitive (in northwestern europe that's often achievable with regular and less demanding jobs) In WE countries, ambitious devs: - try big tech - if they fail, get regular local jobs - usually ignore remote jobs unless they're really high-paying The result is that more ambitious devs in CEE work in big tech and/or high-pay remote than in WE. Basically, the tiers are: Tier 1: - Big Tech in Switzerland Tier 2: - Big Tech in UK - Big Tech in high pay EU country - High-Pay Remote from low-cost country Tier 3: - Regular job in high-pay country - Big Tech job in low-pay country - Mid-Pay remote job in low-cost country Tier 4: - Regular job in low-pay country Ambitious devs (those on @EuroTopTech) tend to target 1 and 2, and sometimes 3, they avoid 4. --- This also doesn't account for the talent difference and historical built up of human capital in tech in CEE. If you're interested about this, I can make another post about it. But basically there's way more cracked Polish devs than Italian ones.