The pitch is dramatic career acceleration: responsibility is earned through impact, not prior experience, and Spooners in their 20s lead products worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Small autonomous teams take on outsized scope. A 30-person team shipped more than 80 improvements to Komoot, including a full multi-platform redesign, in nine months; a five-person WeTransfer squad launched a feature now used by millions in three weeks.
Compensation is explicitly top-of-market, including for interns, with annual peer-reviewed adjustments each Q4, and every posting publishes its salary range. Permanent hires can take part of their pay in discounted company equity. Benefits include unlimited time off, flexible hours, unlimited backing for learning and training, top-of-market health insurance, generous parental support, and annual company retreats in places like Bali, the Seychelles and Mauritius.
It is also a rare European company operating at global consumer scale. If you want to work on products with hundreds of millions of users without moving to the US, there are not many alternatives.