I work for an EU-based consulting company (a la Thoughtworks in the EU), and am personally based in the US. My two cents is that the European leadership is fair

I work for an EU-based consulting company (a la Thoughtworks in the EU), and am personally based in the US. My two cents is that the European leadership is fairly ignorant of modern technology and software practices. The instead choose to loft remedial "wins" as a sign that our company is on the cutting-edge of web 3.0, which has been laughed away as irrelevant in America. The newest fad at my company is to wrap AI agents in some fancy UX and claim that we're now an AI company. The head of technology holds a design degree and 0 years of experience doing any sort of engineering or software development, and consistently demonstrates an inability to distinguish fad from reality in software. Apparently, he was "short-listed" for some sort of EU tech leader of the year award, which makes me question what sort of talent even exists over there when someone like that can be considered for an award. Personally, I'm with Seinfeld in thinking that "all awards are stupid", but that's besides the point. I'm actively trying to start something up and get out of corporate servitude for good. I am lucky to live in America, based on my experience with European tech leadership and the comments here. I'm also consistently shocked by the lack of technical expertise that my developer counterparts in the EU exhibit. Most of them demonstrate the depth of knowledge that a couple Coursera Python courses and about 40 hours of YouTube dev-fluencer videos would instill, despite them having several years of experience as a "senior software developer". It's a bit embarrassing, to say the least.