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Good luck!

what did you do? Consulting or your own product/startup?

Comparing EU to US job market in IT is a bitter joke (for EU). IMO "Loyalty" and similar traits that you usually would use for describing romantic relationships is a sign of how immature the EU market is.

Market is in the gutter.

Many job ads are fake and only there to confuse shareholders about the company health.

Interviewers are looking for the tiniest bit of excuse to fail you along the process while quite often they are looking for lesser engineers than themselves as this buys them job security.

Offers, when they come, are much worse (terms + money) than what they were 2 years ago.

Most of the companies don't want to invest even a day on you so you have to have the exact package they're looking for.

It is fully a (job) sellers market. OTOH if you are a company and you find it hard to find people in this market then you're doing something really wrong.

EU-Greece here.

Good luck.

Anecdotal evidence from people already working there. It's not a list of companies breaking the law but the inverse. A list of companies that we know from inside that they are fully OK with older age. This is to save aged job seekers time dealing with the rest that will fail them deeper in the interview process once they figure out they are older.

Because they are competing with each other at current market rates.

But you can make this work for you. Give yourself a raise every 2 years or so.