Best Companies by City for Software Engineers in Europe
WIP collection, add a comment if anything is missing.
The criteria used for selecting companies in this list include factors that most devs out there find attractive, such as:
Compensation
Size of office in the city and amount of job openings
Quality of work being done there
Company brand
Career progression opportunities
How engineers are treated in the company (is it a cost center, first-class citizens etc) and so on.
Basically, it includes some classic big tech companies, High-frequency trading firms and high-paying scale-ups.
In some cases, for locations that are attractive, some ‘lower quality’ companies are included. For example, for Zurich, I include also UBS, Swisscom or GetYourGuide which aren’t at FAANG level, but still easily pay 6 figures salaries and have many openings. Similar thing for Samsung in Warsaw.
I try to keep the list up-to-date, but since it’s not easy to track everything that happens in all these companies and offices, it might not always be 100% accurate.
If you know better and want to help keeping this list high-quality, let me know in the comments or by email and I’ll make sure to update it!
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Here’s the list:
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND
Google, Facebook, Snap, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, Snyk, GetYourGuide, UBS, Swisscom, DFINITY, Cisco.
LONDON, ENGLAND
Google, Facebook, Snap, Jane Street, Stripe, Coinbase, Apple, Amazon, Hudson River Trading, Citadel, ByteDance, Two Sigma, Palantir, Bloomberg, Revolut, GSA Capital, Marshall Wace, Quadrature, Five Rings, G-Research, Starling, Personio, DeepMind, DRW, Millenium, BlackRock, MAN Group, Jump Trading, DE Shaw, AQR, Maven Securities, Twitter, Point72, IMC, Optiver, Susquehanna (SIG), XTX, Old Mission, Squarepoint, Qube Research & Technologies (QRT), Yelp.
AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
Uber, Databricks, Bitvavo, Booking, Miro, Flexport, Atlassian, Spotify, Optiver, IMC, Amazon, Adyen, Google, Stripe, Flow Traders, MessageBird, Reddit, Box, JetBrains, Personio, Elastic, GitHub, Catawiki, Tower Research, Radix Trading, Headlands Technologies, DRW.
PARIS, FRANCE
Google, Meta, Datadog, Criteo, Microsoft, Stripe, Airbnb, Amazon, Atlassian, Hubspot, Workday, Ankorstore, Red Hat, Algolia, Alan, 360Learning, ContentSquare, Snap.
BERLIN, GERMANY
AWS, Amazon, Microsoft, Wayfair, Google, Meta, Apple, HubSpot, Stripe, NVIDIA, Snowflake, Personio, Databricks, JetBrains, Wolt.
DUBLIN, IRELAND
AWS, Microsoft, Google, Mastercard, Workday, Salesforce, Meta, Stripe, VMware, LinkedIn, Etsy, Personio, ByteDance, Coinbase, Hubspot, Oracle.
MUNICH, GERMANY
Google, Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Adobe, Workday, Celonis, BMW, Salesforce, SIXT, SAP, Huawei, Personio, Intel, JetBrains, IBM.
WARSAW, POLAND
Google, Snowflake, Asana, Netflix, Pinterest, Rippling, Oracle, Waymo, AMD, Samsung, NVIDIA, Box, Warner Bros, Visa, Amazon, Bolt.
BARCELONA, SPAIN
Amazon, Apple, New Relic, Stripe, Rippling, Revolut, Skyscanner, Microsoft, N26, Criteo, Adobe, Thoughtworks, Oracle, Glovo, Personio, MongoDB.
CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND
Apple, Amazon, Roku, Arm, Microsoft, Qualcomm, MathWorks, AMD, Nutanix.
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
Amazon, Oracle, Microsoft, Flutter, Unity, Skyscanner, Huawei.
BELGRADE, SERBIA
Databricks, Microsoft, Nutanix, Rivian, Foursquare, Yandex, JetBrains, Nordeus, Luxoft.
MADRID, SPAIN
Amazon, Datadog, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Personio, Twilio, Glovo, VMware, Meta, Oracle, Revolut.
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
Klarna, Spotify, Netlight, PayPal, Ericsson, Ubisoft, Warner Bros, King, Google, Oracle, AWS, Microsoft, Wolt.
KRAKOW, POLAND
Google, Rippling, Oracle, Revolut, Uber, Amazon, Deliveroo, IBM, Splunk.
BUCHAREST, ROMANIA
Crowdstrike, UI Path, Google, Adobe, Stripe, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Amazon.
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
Microsoft, Maersk, Zendesk, Workday, Unity.
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
Productboard, Pure Storage, Apple, Workday, Oracle, Microsoft, JetBrains, Proton, Parrot.
TALLINN, ESTONIA
Bolt, Wise, Microsoft, Twilio, Wolt.
OSLO, NORWAY
Microsoft, Cisco, Aker Solutions, Arm, Mastercard, Meta, Kahoot, Autostore, Remarkable, Netlight.
SOFIA, BULGARIA
VMWare, Docker, IBM.
LUXEMBURG, LUXEMBURG
Amazon.
AARHUS, DENMARK
Google, Uber, Databricks.
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND
Booking, Roku, IBM, Arm.
Last updated: 29/08/2024
Missing Basel, Adobe. I don't think this one can be ignored tbh.
This guide sucks.
15 companies listed for Dublin Ireland. Most companies have their European HQ in Dublin. Probably every company listed on this page is in Dublin