It's still American or Israeli companies though. Working for Google Zurich still means you're working for an American employer (though Google and other employers are increasingly shifting to Warsaw, Praha, and Romania due to tax incentives and employees with less of an ego).
Why work for SAP as a Cloud Engineer earning $45-60k in Waldorf and required to go in-person when Wiz or AWS can pay you $90-110k as a Partner Cloud Architect while letting you work remotely in Waldorf and travel may 10-20% to customer onsites in Frankfurt or Berlin or EMEA partner conferences in Praha or Amsterdam.
The point is one way or the other, you don't have a choice other than to work for an American or Israeli company in some way or the other in most of Europe's tech scene, and incorporation remains extremely difficult. I've met so many French and Germans who committed aliyah explicitly because they could earn 2x in TLV what they could in Paris or Berlin, or because it was easier to create a startup. And for non-Jewish Europeans America has remained somewhat easier (unless your Polish, Romanian, or Czech/Slovak - in which case Eastern Europeans have a similar hustle and founder culture, as most operators worked in American bigtech or VCs)
Why work for SAP as a Cloud Engineer earning $45-60k in Waldorf and required to go in-person when Wiz or AWS can pay you $90-110k as a Partner Cloud Architect while letting you work remotely in Waldorf and travel may 10-20% to customer onsites in Frankfurt or Berlin or EMEA partner conferences in Praha or Amsterdam.
The point is one way or the other, you don't have a choice other than to work for an American or Israeli company in some way or the other in most of Europe's tech scene, and incorporation remains extremely difficult. I've met so many French and Germans who committed aliyah explicitly because they could earn 2x in TLV what they could in Paris or Berlin, or because it was easier to create a startup. And for non-Jewish Europeans America has remained somewhat easier (unless your Polish, Romanian, or Czech/Slovak - in which case Eastern Europeans have a similar hustle and founder culture, as most operators worked in American bigtech or VCs)