Category: Tech Careers
Career advice and job market insights for IT professionals
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From Employee to Consultant: IT Career Outside the Corporate Track
Leaving corporate IT does not increase freedom. It redistributes risk. In employment, volatility is absorbed by the organisation. In consulting, volatility is absorbed by you. That sounds abstract. It isn’t. Salary vs Consulting: The Math People Avoid Take a realistic scenario. Senior backend engineer in Germany: €85,000 gross salary, paid holidays, sick leave, employer contributions,…
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The Best Cities in Europe for IT Jobs in 2024
There is no “best” European city for IT jobs. There are compensation ceilings, volatility profiles, and cost compression ratios. And there is your personal risk tolerance. Those matter more than rankings. I’ve been based in Hamburg for eighteen years — twelve in corporate IT at a Tier 1 manufacturer, six in digital agencies. I’ve hired…
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IT Career Paths: Junior to Senior Without Burning Out
Becoming a senior developer is not a matter of accumulating years. I’ve worked with developers who had ten years of experience that was really two years repeated five times — the same stack, the same comfort zone, the same ceiling. And I’ve watched people hit genuine senior capability in four years because they were deliberately…
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Skills Every Web Developer Needs in 2026
The European tech job market has specific patterns, and they’re not uniform. After eighteen years in IT — twelve corporate, six across digital agencies in Hamburg — I’ve hired developers, sat on panels, and watched plenty of people miscalibrate their preparation for the wrong market — sometimes before the interview stage, because their CV wasn’t…
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How to Transition from Corporate IT to a Digital Agency
I spent twelve years in corporate IT — network engineering, infrastructure, eventually leading a team of fifteen at a Tier 1 manufacturing company in Germany. It paid well. The benefits were solid. And after year eight, I was bored out of my mind. The move to agency work wasn’t planned. A recruiter reached out about…