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+title: Landing a frontend dev job in the Netherlands in 2026
+description: TODO
+publishedDate: 2026-03-16
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+Summary
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+## Links
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+## Timestamps
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+00:00 Introduction
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+## Transcript
+
+- Tech jobs with visa sponsorship are rather rare.
+- I assume that you are already located in the Netherlands:
+  - You need to have very specialized skills to get a visa sponsorship.
+  - Or your employer is desperate because they have a bad working climate.
+- Job tiers:
+  - Fully remote international
+  - Fully remote local (very rare)
+  - Hybrid local (most common, often Dutch speaking)
+  - On-site local (up and coming, almost always Dutch speaking)
+- Salary ranges (no figures):
+  - Big Tech international: absurdly high because it's not tailored to the Dutch tax system.
+  - Bigger tech Amsterdam
+  - Government and semi-government
+  - Midfield tech (non-tech companies with a CAO)
+  - Local startups
+  - Agencies
+  - Mom-and-Pop
+- Geographic distribution:
+  - Amsterdam
+  - Utrecht
+  - Eindhoven (lots of tech jobs but not many frontend)
+  - Den Haag (non-profit and government)
+  - Rotterdam (very few tech jobs)
+  - Random places in the middle of nowhere
+- Freelance:
+  - Wet DBA scare companies
+  - It's fine to freelance as long as you are strictly task-based.
+  - Cross-border fulltime employment via freelance is a grayzone.
+- Cross-border employment:
+  - Even within the EU you need an EoR.
+  - I wonder what contracts people have with an EoR.
+- Job titles:
+  - A product engineer has a different meaning in the local job market.
+- Websites:
+  - Indeed: narrow down geographically
+  - LinkedIn: ghost jobs and easy apply put you up for a failure. Try to find the job on the company
+    website and apply there.
+  - Google search
+  - local job boards
+  - Communities, Discord
+
+Strategy: Programmingpodcast #66 says your chances to get a job when cold applying is 3% or less.
+
+This means that you have to figure out how to narrow the pool of canidates and to increase the pool
+of job openings. Narrow down, e.g. hybrid jobs in a specific location. The pool of jobs by being
+flexible with the tech stack and figure out what trade-off you are willing to make.