Blocket
Stockholm · est. 2001 · website ↗
Registered as Vend Marketplaces AB
Sweden's dominant online classifieds marketplace (Schibsted).
SurvivalSteady
CapitalSubsidiary
SectorShopping & marketplaces
Age25 years est. 2001
FitStructure
BuildingMixed
LanguageEnglish
Open roles right now (2)
Open when I last checked, via Arbetsformedlingen.
Stack, from their job ads
From Blocket’s own job ads, so only the part it is hiring for.
Registered business activity (SNI)
Filed with a public registryStandard industry classification codes as filed with Bolagsverket.
Mediebyråverksamhet och annonsförsäljningDataprogrammeringDatainfrastruktur, databehandling, hosting o.d.
Everything I could know about Blocket
A blank is a gap in my coverage.
Company health
Filed with a public registry- SurvivalSubsidiaryNo recent digital filing to read, but survival here is a matter of public record: subsidiary ownership. A categorical read, not a filed number.
- Age25 years oldFounded 2001, 25 years ago.
- CapitalSubsidiaryHand-curated from public ownership records.
- Distress flagsNo data for this company yet
- GrowthNo data for this company yet
What you'd build and work with
Read from their job ads- Building (problem type)MixedFrontend (1), Data/ML (1): 2 postings classified from title/description keywords, not ML.
- StackAirflow1BigQuery1dbt1Fivetran1Kotlin1LLM1Python1React1Snowflake1SQL1TypeScript1Airflow (1), BigQuery (1), dbt (1), Fivetran (1), Kotlin (1), LLM (1), Python (1), React (1), Snowflake (1), SQL (1), TypeScript (1), counted over the postings whose text I hold.
- Role shapeNo data for this company yet
- SectorShopping & marketplacesMapped from the industry tags this company reported to the startup directory (marketplace). Self-reported, so it is the company's own claim about its market.
- Engineering reputationRead from what they publishNo data for this company yetCompany websites plus the public GitHub API. Broader discovery via GitHub search would need an API token.
Hiring practicalities
Read from their job ads- Open roles2 open
- Working languageEnglishRead from the words in this company's own live job ads, which is the company stating how it hires rather than me inferring it. Detected across this company's live postings.
Fit and mission
Worked out from facts I hold- Fit (chaos or structure)Structurefounded 2001 (25 years ago), ~351 employees, Subsidiary stage. Age, size and stage combine into the read.
Companies like this one
Worked out from facts I holdEach shows why. Not a recommendation.
- Also Shopping & marketplaces · Also building mixed · Shares SQL, Python, BigQuery and 3 more · Same age (over 10 years)
- Also Shopping & marketplaces · Also building mixed · Shares SQL, LLM, Python and 1 more · Same age (over 10 years)
- Also Shopping & marketplaces · Also building mixed · Shares Kotlin, TypeScript · Similar size (200 to 1,000) · Same age (over 10 years)
- Also Shopping & marketplaces · Also building mixed · Shares LLM, Python, TypeScript · Similar size (200 to 1,000)
- Also Shopping & marketplaces · Also building mixed · Shares dbt, Python, React and 1 more
- Also Shopping & marketplaces · Shares Airflow, LLM, Python and 1 more · Similar size (200 to 1,000) · Same age (over 10 years)
Work here?
Nobody has answered yet. Same questions for every company.
Answer for this companyOn the map
Blocket (OpenStreetMap, matched on name in STOCKHOLM)
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Wrong about Blocket?
The address, the headcount, the logo, a role that closed. Tell me which and I will fix it.