People would just bring their friends in, or give them contracts as freelancers. In one instance the us office got involved and stopped it. I've been in a few "mock" interviews.
They call it trust in Denmark, I call it nepotism.
There's a very weird dynamic between Jante Law and Danish Exceptionalism. The fact that Denmark is at the bottom of the list for expats should give some perspective.
It's a good country to live in, but I think a lot of these positive articles online about hygge, happines, copenhagen, benefits, trust; really avoid talking about the bad sides and how soul crushing it can be.
However as a fellow european, having worked for large "national/eu important companies", this article resonated a lot with me and my frustrations. Granted I don't do anything "security" related.
Everything in "it infrastructure" has been outsourced to India, at best Poland. You have competent people in eu offices that don't have the power to use their own hardware. You have to beg for weeks to barely skilled ticket masters from outsourcing companies, endless meetings.
All eu staff is relegated to feature factories or process managers. Zero ops. "It's not our core competency."
I refuse to ever again work for the large "of national security" european companies. It's soul crushing. And it is very clear nobody cares.
It hurts me everytime I read how tens of billions are allocated for whatever EU soverignity. I have been in way too many 10 managers 2 engineers teams with way too many long meetings begging teams from $indian_outsourcing_company to let me do my job.