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You’ve GOT to measure the data – the effectiveness, the conversion, the hit rates – or you’ll never know how well you’re really doing.",[],{"type":24,"text":61,"spans":72,"direction":20},[],{"type":24,"text":74,"spans":75,"direction":20},"Businesses with advanced data analytics are twice as likely to enhance their recruitment performance and three times more likely to lower their hiring costs.",[76,82],{"start":77,"end":78,"type":79,"data":80},16,39,"hyperlink",{"link_type":48,"url":81},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.remotecrew.io\u002Fblog\u002Fdata-driven-recruitment",{"start":83,"end":84,"type":79,"data":85},144,156,{"link_type":48,"url":86},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.remotecrew.io\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-reduce-cost-per-hire",{"type":24,"text":61,"spans":88,"direction":20},[],{"type":24,"text":90,"spans":91,"direction":20},"84% of organizations with talent analytics say it helps them stay competitive.",[],{"type":24,"text":61,"spans":93,"direction":20},[],{"type":24,"text":95,"spans":96,"direction":20},"But if you’re worried your recruitment analytics aren’t where they need to be, you’re not alone. More than 1 in 4 companies don’t use any recruitment analytics, and more than 1 in 5 don’t use data to inform their decisions.",[97],{"start":98,"end":99,"type":79,"data":100},27,48,{"link_type":48,"url":101},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.remotecrew.io\u002Fblog\u002Frecruiting-metrics-kpis",{"type":24,"text":61,"spans":103,"direction":20},[],{"type":24,"text":105,"spans":106,"direction":20},"It can be hard to know where to start when there’s so many tools out there. 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Both cities have a similar mix of local-market and international employers: 42% of the jobs we track in Lisbon are at international-tier companies, and 48% in Porto. The difference is at the top. Of the 228 global-tier jobs we track, 141 are in Lisbon and only 7 in Porto. Most of the rest are fully remote.",[],{"type":24,"text":2820,"spans":2821,"direction":20},"So in Porto you mostly compete with local-market and international employers. In Lisbon you also compete with global-tier companies for the same senior engineers.",[],"lisbon-or-porto",{},"text_content$77ae400c-9e53-4f4e-b506-8d039f398f24",{"variation":11,"version":12,"items":2826,"primary":2827,"id":2831,"slice_type":1934,"slice_label":32},[],{"chart":2828,"title":2829,"caption":2830},"pt-jobs-by-city","Global-tier jobs are in Lisbon or fully remote, almost never in Porto","Remote Crew job tracking, 24 Oct 2026 · open remote and hybrid engineering jobs at companies with a pay tier · a job listing Lisbon counts as Lisbon; 408 jobs in other places or several cities left out","chart_block$41285dfd-0aaf-4cf0-904c-985fb6874c4a",{"variation":11,"version":12,"items":2833,"primary":2842,"id":2843,"slice_type":562,"slice_label":32},[2834],{"text":2835,"textid":32},[2836,2839],{"type":24,"text":2837,"spans":2838,"direction":20},"What about pay? Companies that hire for the same role in both cities almost always advertise the same range. 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If you don't have a Portuguese entity, contract hiring lets us employ the engineer for you.",[2930],{"start":2931,"end":2932,"type":79,"data":2933},283,298,{"link_type":48,"url":2800,"target":549},{"type":200,"text":2935,"spans":2936,"direction":20},"Which companies pay software engineers the most in Portugal?",[],{"type":24,"text":2938,"spans":2939,"direction":20},"Global-tier companies, which benchmark pay regionally or globally and publish ranges above €100k for individual engineers. Examples from their own job ads include Cloudflare, Elastic, Thought Machine, Constructor and Attio.",[],{"type":200,"text":2941,"spans":2942,"direction":20},"Do software engineers earn more in Lisbon than in Porto?",[],{"type":24,"text":2944,"spans":2945,"direction":20},"The company's tier matters more than the city. 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