Career

2026 turned out to be a year of harsh realizations. From bureaucratic nightmares in Spain to the cold math of relocation, here is why walking away from a €60k offer was the only logical choice for a senior engineer.

After 18 months in the ‘cesspool’ of corporate idiocy, I went hunting for a Lead Microelectronics role in Copenhagen. What I found was a circus of ghost jobs, incompetent HR, and a vanishing technical landscape.