Europe has 10 to 20 times fewer solid specialized product candidates
Maria Angelidou · Maria Angelidou:Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue |E1210 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Oct 4, 2024 · at 41:01
Maria Angelidou, Chief Product & Technology Officer at Personio and former VP of Product at Meta, discusses the structural hiring differences between European and American tech companies.
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“You know, this is actually one of the things that I had to adjust, is that for every let's say, 20 maybe 10, 20, if it's specialized role, candidates that you get in the U.S. That are solid, maybe you get one in Europe. And that actually really slows down your hiring, because unless you hire, like lower your hiring bar, which you're not going to do. And so I think that's actually a competitive disadvantage for EU based companies.”
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