About

I built Pegel because the Berlin tech job market has a particular kind of friction that nobody really talks about.

There are a few large recruitment platforms. They charge employers to post. They sort listings by who pays more, then call the ordering "relevance." The companies most willing to spend on listings tend to be the ones least picky about candidates. The startups I actually want to know about, the ones with seven engineers and a series A and a real problem to solve, don't show up on those platforms because they post on their own careers page and assume people will find them.

People sometimes do not find them. Or they find them by chance, on a third-party Notion page someone made in 2023 and abandoned.

Pegel is the version of that Notion page that updates itself.

Every morning at around half past five, a small program reads the public ATS feeds of about 200 Berlin startups. Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, Workable, Personio, the usual lineup. It gets the roles the companies just posted, classifies them by a handful of dimensions (does this require German, does this look like it sponsors visas, what stack does it use, what's the seniority signal), and puts them on this site. The roles link out to the companies' own application pages. I am not in the middle of anything.

I make no money from this. There is no plan to make money from this. Companies do not pay to list. Candidates do not pay to apply. There are no accounts to make, no premium tier, no employer dashboards I am tempted to monetize later.

The voice on the site is mine. The classifications are made by a model I run against each job description. The job descriptions themselves are verbatim from the source. When I observe something about a role, I label it so you know it came from me; when a company says something about their role, that text is theirs.

I live in Berlin. I read a lot of job descriptions. I notice patterns.

You can subscribe to a daily digest if you want roles in your inbox at 07:30 Berlin time, Monday to Saturday. You can also just browse, which is what most people do.

If you find a bug or a missing company or a misclassification, email me.