Hi there,
In this update
The Job Search Cohort is cancelled, and why
What shipped on Euro Top Tech in the last two weeks: pay tiers and pay ranges on the job board, a new Career Lab plan, 60+ new companies
Three new free pages: the top-paying employers in Europe, who posts pay in Europe, and “is my offer good?”
Where I’m taking the business in 2027: the platform, 1:1 coaching and free content
Enjoy :)
The Job Search Cohort is cancelled
Two weeks ago I launched a six-week live group program for Euro Top Tech members. I announced it here, in the Discord and on LinkedIn, and asked for feedback.
Here are the numbers: one seat sold in two weeks. The group coaching I tried in August 2025 sold zero. Two launches, one seat in total.
The feedback was consistent. The people who follow my work want one of two things:
Spend little and use the software on their own. Which means the software has to be as good as it can be.
Spend more and work with me directly, 1:1, on their own search.
A group program apparently sits in a middle group that doesn’t appeal to many. So it’s gone.
The time it would have taken goes into the two offers that exist, the membership and 1:1 coaching, and into free content!
Thank you to everyone who replied, asked a question or signed up. I always cherish feedback :)
What’s new on Euro Top Tech
#39 covered everything since August. Here’s what shipped in the two weeks since, and it’s mostly about pay.
Pay on the job board
Pay tier on every card: introducing five company pay tiers behind every job’s pay estimate - from Elite to Market rate, now showing on the job card as a small tag. You can also filter the board by them.
Posted pay ranges when the company shares it: Google alone went from 0 to 231 roles showing a range. When a posting states its pay, the card mentions it.
Remote companies: I researched the pay of 195 remote-first companies hiring in Europe. 86 of them now show a researched senior engineer range in EUR on their cards, and 83 carry a pay tier. Companies with no reliable data (few) show nothing rather than a guess.
Estimates recalibrated against 2,000+ posted ranges: non-engineering roles at companies other than Google, Amazon and Meta were reading 25 to 40% too low, and “Principal” engineer titles were priced one level too high. Both fixed.
Who can apply: remote jobs and job pages say which countries a remote role hires from, e.g. “only people in Bosnia, Germany, France, ..”.
Job board
60+ new companies and thousands more roles.
City filter: picking Warsaw now also shows remote roles hiring from Poland, not only the on-site ones.
UI/UX improvements.
Job alert emails now say why each job matched: what matched your alert, plus one pay fact.
Job alerts can add their matches to your Career Lab Target Roles on their own, and mark a tracked role closed when its job leaves the board.
Find a referrer: when you mark a job Tracked or Applied, its card shows a "Find a referrer" link. One click opens the Outreach tool in Career Lab on that company, so you can find people who work there and ask them for a referral.
Stale roles leave faster: a role an employer’s own board stopped listing drops off at the next scan, not weeks later.
The job board now shows more info to non-subscribers too: so you can get an idea before buying the full membership.
MCP and API access: for members with Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, you can connect the board to your AI assistant by signing in, or with an API key from your account page.
Career Lab
The Path is one plan screen now. Your lane (Big Tech, remote, step up or specialist), why, up to five roles from the board, two or three moves for the week, one risk. It regenerates every two weeks, and the member home shows the same plan. The six-stage checklist is gone.
Outreach: people you already know come first, with pacing rules so you don’t burn your network in a week.
Coaching outcomes: a public record of the offers coaching participants accepted, dated, from the public reviews only for now.
Data
/data shows medians by default, with a Median / Average switch.
Jobs distribution on /data: the open roles per country and city now include remote roles, and a Workplace filter shows only the on-site, hybrid or remote ones.
Salary map of Europe: median pay, after-tax pay and savings printed on each country, a by-city version, views per level, every one downloadable as a PNG.
The entries pages keep your filters and sort in the URL, so you can share a view.
Three new free pages
Where engineers in Europe get paid most
A quarterly list of the 50 top-paying tech employers in Europe with 10+ open engineering roles, ranked by what they pay a senior software engineer at the places they hire. The Q4 2026 top 10: OpenAI, Anthropic, Isomorphic Labs, Sierra, Jane Street and Citadel Securities (all around EUR 306k total comp for a senior, all in London), then G-Research, DRW, Google DeepMind and Meta. The list, with the open roles at each.
Who posts pay in European tech
A monthly tracker of the share of roles on the board where the company itself state a pay range (e.g. where the salary is official rather than an estimate). November 2026:
14% of 17,181 open roles state a range. Remote roles 25%, on-site and hybrid 12%.
Lithuania leads at 60%, Serbia trails at 0%.
In the EU countries that have transposed the Pay Transparency Directive (Lithuania, Greece, Italy, Slovakia), 31% of on-site roles state pay. In the 17 that haven’t finished: 12%.
Amazon, AWS and Tesla: not a single range across 2,800 roles. Microsoft 84%, Google 64%, Cloudflare 50%.
The tracker, with the directive status per country.
Is my offer good?
Type an offer, the country and the level, and offer check tells you where it sits among the 1,600+ community reports, what you’d keep after tax and what people at that pay save in that country. Every figure comes from reports, not from a tax model: tested against the reports themselves, the take-home figure lands within 10% of the real one for 7 in 10 of them. Free, no account.
And the job market trends page I announced as coming soon in #39 is live: 17,000+ distinct roles, 40% of them engineering, with what moved week over week.
What’s next: 2027
Cancelling the cohort made the plan simpler. Three things, in this order.
Euro Top Tech, doubling down. Pay transparency and estimates precision will keep getting better: estimates per company and level, posted ranges, researched remote ranges, and from this month a pay history. Monthly: the pay transparency tracker and the “who’s hiring” chart. Quarterly: the top-paying employers list. Yearly: the Compensation Report. The job board, Career Lab and the data pages keep getting better, measured on what members use most.
1:1 coaching, the only coaching I do. Fewer clients, longer engagements, every outcome logged on the coaching page.
Free content, more of it: this newsletter every week with one chart from the platform, LinkedIn most days, X for more lowkey content. YouTube probably stays on pause until 2027, with a few exceptions.
If you missed it last week: Why I moved to Lugano as an online entrepreneur.
And, as always, feel free to request features and provide feedback on my work, including on this newsletter!
Either here, or in the Discord, if you’re a Euro Top Tech paid sub.
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Ig - for travel pics
Have a great Sunday!
Nic
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