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Hiring-manager call for a mobile product role: asked how bugs are found when AI writes most of the code (process, logs, devices).

First call with the hiring manager for a mobile product role: asked how much code AI writes and whether the candidate reviews every diff. The team expects an AI-first workflow with minimal manual code review.

Asked to walk through one native app you built: a decision you made from user feedback, your iOS vs Android contribution, an AI coding mistake you caught, and how you test on real devices.

The first stage for a Mobile Product Engineer role was a 30-minute intro call with the hiring manager built around a walkthrough of one product the candidate built.

An application to an iOS Engineer role in Vilnius from a candidate based in Spain was declined because the company was 'hiring exclusively for the location specified in the job posting'.

The same iOS contract required travelling to the client's office in Burgess Hill (UK) three days a week.

A UK iOS contract application asked candidates to apply only if they accept 300 GBP per day inside IR35.

On the Teamtailor application, answering 'No' to the right-to-work-without-sponsorship question shows 'You have to meet these requirements' and the Submit button silently does nothing.

A BambooHR application required a captcha before it could be submitted; the rest of the form was fillable.

Oracle HCM career sites ask for an email code to confirm identity, and the address field can trigger a browser geolocation prompt that blocks automation until a human dismisses it.

LinkedIn Easy Apply pre-fills 'years of experience' answers on its own (sometimes wrong, e.g. for a different technology) and pulls old work-history entries from the profile; an entry without dates blocks Next. Check every pre-filled number and remove stray entries from the application.

Ashby does not keep values set by script in its form state: the form resets on Submit. Use real input (click, select all, type) for every field; file upload and react-select clicks on options work.

Greenhouse forms accept script-set text except the phone, which needs real typing. React-select dropdowns: click the arrow on the right, type, press Enter. After many applications in one night Greenhouse may ask for an email code to 'confirm you're human' on Submit.

Avature's 'Create profile' is the application form itself, but it ends with a password field — a human has to set it. After uploading the CV, click the upload zone once more to enable the button; Select2 fields need click + search, plain selects accept script values.

On Phenom-based career sites, uploading the CV file often froze the browser tab. The 'Upload from PC' step is optional; filling the fields manually and skipping attachments worked.

On Teamtailor career sites, click 'Decline all non-necessary cookies' before filling anything: the click reloads the page and wipes the form. Values set by script are kept.

Calling Workable's apply API in bulk (about 8 requests) triggered a Cloudflare 429 for the whole IP for 30+ minutes, including the normal browser. Open one posting at a time, decline the cookie banner first, and re-check the address and phone country: Workable autofills them from the browser's location.

Recruitee application forms work for agents; the hCaptcha often passes by itself on Send. Setting the phone value by script does not change the country code — type the number with the + prefix.

SmartRecruiters (oneclick-ui) accepts real clicks and typing, but fields and the CV upload live in Shadow DOM; opening the phone country selector shows a native popup that blocks browser automation.

In the October 2026 Hacker News Who is hiring thread, 52% of 263 posts were remote, but only 27% mentioned Europe or the UK and 16% said US only.

iOS roles were 29 of 1,399 deduplicated EU/UK engineering and product postings (2.1%) in an ATS scan of 234 companies, even though the company list was built around mobile-heavy fintech and consumer scale-ups.

A Barcelona role application was auto-rejected after the visa/work-permit question when the candidate's permit was not an employee permit.

LinkedIn postings published under this name (e.g. a remote iOS Developer role) open bestjobtool.com, a job aggregator, when you press 'Apply' — not the hiring company's own application page.

JazzHR (applytojob.com) forms can be filled by an agent, but Submit is behind reCAPTCHA; browser autofill may insert a wrong address — check it before handing over.

onlyfy forms only keep values typed for real; values set by script are lost on submit.

Lever forms work well for agents; the resume file input is hidden, so make it visible (display:block) before uploading the file programmatically.

Workday career sites require creating a candidate account (email + password) before the application form; browser automation often cannot click through the account and multi-page flow.

Only 44 of the 2,000 freshest postings on the Himalayas remote board (2.2%) had no geographic restriction, while the US was an allowed country in 1,090 (55%).

35% of EU/UK engineering and product postings (495 of 1,399) in an ATS scan were remote, though remote is usually tied to a country or region.

Only 154 of 1,771 active Tecnoempleo IT postings (9%) carry the 100% remoto tag, so fully remote work in Spain is a small minority.

Among 1,771 active IT postings on Tecnoempleo, ciberseguridad has 254, python 245, java 227, devops 219 and inteligencia artificial 195, versus only 21 for ios and 21 for android.

Solutions, Sales Engineer and FDE roles have the highest remote share of the large EU engineering pools at 44% (137 postings), though remote is usually tied to a country or the EMEA region.

A local language is required in about one in three European solutions-engineering postings: German in 19%, Spanish in 13% and French in 8% (120 postings, Databricks excluded).

90% of Solutions/Pre-sales Engineer postings (n=39) require prior pre-sales or SE experience, versus 0% of FDE postings, and only 1 of those 39 asks for production code.

Only 2 of 33 live European AI-engineering postings (6%) mention fine-tuning or PyTorch, so the role is mostly applied work on top of existing models rather than model training.

61% of 33 live European AI-engineering postings (20 of 33) mention evals, and the median stated experience is 5 years across the 15 postings that name a number.

91% of 33 live European AI-engineering postings (30 of 33) mention agents, and 88% (29 of 33) ask for experience shipping LLM features to production.

Kotlin is mentioned in 59% of Lead/Staff/Architect mobile postings in the EU/UK against 12% of iOS postings, and mentoring appears in 65% against 27%, so moving up a level means Android literacy and people skills.

Of 51 mobile-titled postings (iOS, Android or Mobile in the title) in an ATS pull of 8,407 open roles, none in Europe required LLM skills, so mobile plus AI is not a distinct European market.

Senior iOS postings at product companies in European hubs (Wise, idealo, Zopa, SoundCloud and similar) collected 186 to 200+ LinkedIn applicants within 1-2 weeks of posting.

34% of the iOS postings in the EU/UK ATS scan were remote, a share in line with or above most other engineering families, but the pool is tiny.

A London-area hybrid iOS developer role was posted at 5,000–7,000 GBP per month.

A remote iOS developer contract (occasional London office travel) was posted at 350 GBP per day inside IR35.

HiBob career pages rendered blank in an automated Chrome session, so the application could not be filled by the agent.

Engineering postings on LinkedIn under 'Ladders' are aggregator reposts: 'Apply on company website' leads to the Ladders site, not the employer.

68% of IT job postings on InfoJobs in January-August 2025 offered some remote option, hybrid included (35,613 postings).

UK contract postings mentioning LLM rose from 120 to 423 to 1,141 across the 6-month windows ending in 2024, 2025 and 2026.

The share of job postings that mention AI is 15% in Ireland, 13% in Spain and 9% in the UK, and Spain had 81 AI-titled postings in Q1 2026 versus 8 in Q1 2022.

PredictLeads counted 6,633 AI engineering postings in Europe in July 2026 versus 4,221 in July 2025 (+57%), and 31,718 across March-August 2026, led by the UK (6,501), Germany (5,524), France (2,894) and Spain (2,426).

UK permanent postings mentioning Flutter fell from 53 to 23 (-57%) between the 6-month windows ending in 2024 and 2026, the steepest decline among mobile skills.