EU tech sector fights for a Level Playing Field with Microsoft
Does anyone have any good arguments for why we lack any serious blue-chip competitors in the EU?<p>I mean we have things like Spotify and SAP (though they&#x27;re b2b). But I really can&#x27;t see any parallels with the US tech industry. There really is no company that comes to mind in the EU where I think &quot;yeah that&#x27;s where all the software engineers want to go to&quot;.<p>Also what I find super weird is that actually, a lot of the other industries are providing the golden ticket type jobs for SDEs that, in the US, would be reserved for FAANG. For example VW has some pretty great Digital &quot;labs&quot;, pay is quite high, and they&#x27;re even one of the biggest forces investing in quantum research, funding phd programmes and the like.