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Comment by arnvald | Hacker News Reader

> The real question to ask is: Where are these new jobs? Remote? Satellite offices? New foreign offices?

Living in Amsterdam, NL, I can say that I've started seeing A LOT more opportunities from American companies in the last 12 months.

From top of my head: Netflix, Meta, Github, Stripe, Plaid, Lemonade, Box, Amazon - they all target developers in Amsterdam on LinkedIn (some offer "remote anywhere" options, but still put Amsterdam as location to show up in search results)

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They target Amsterdam because they already have a financial center there - at least Github and Lemonade. Many times its the European entity for the company (NL and Ireland are very popular choices for business expansion in the EU).

That's possible, Netherlands and Ireland are kind of tax havens in EU. The point remains - the number of job offers from American companies has visibly increased compared to 1-2 years ago.

For sure, totally agreeing it has increased - just wanted to shed some light on why specifically Dublin/Amsterdam (and to lesser extent Paris/Berlin) win a lot of these jobs.

But are they actually hiring? I have seen these ads but they all seem like CV farms no actual plan for hiring. Adverts up for months on end, it really puts me off applying.

Yes, it's just that they are continuously hiring, so they never remove their ads.

Sometimes. I've also seen companies that have the ads up continually because it shows investors they are a growing company - they are not actually hiring, they just keep running ads to look like it.

They do, LinkedIn shows a number of developers working for these companies from Netherlands.

This is actually more Brexit related than Covid related.

It's a lot harder for these companies to hire in London now, so they've been somewhat forced to find new European places (most of which already had small sales/policy offices already).

London too, American VC's and Big Tech are pouring heaps of money into the local tech industry.

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