I have a few things to say, if that's ok.

Your partner actually received more interviews than most, especially for a position at this level. 27% interview rate is good.

I'm concerned that your partner has applied to 100 places in two months. That's 12 applications a week! The generic copy and paste CV with small tweaks doesn't usually land well. While you might put two days into a single submission, put your heart into it, just for it to be ignored, the few times an application isn't ignored, there is fierce competition, usually with dozens of other CVs that do put a lot of effort into their applications.

Are Poles hanging onto old Communist-era cars for nostalgic purposes?

More likely the actual system programming gets replaced by AI and Product Managers are the last job that still exists because they have to fit the product into the broader ecosystem for human customers.

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Yeah that is a massive red flag. 4+ interviews is already pushing it, 8 just screams catastrophic internal mismanagement.

Except this isn't just the EU so if Iceland, Norway, etc are on there then the UK should be too.

Edit: it seems the reason is data availability

In my career I’ve held 2 retail jobs, 2 government jobs, and 1 healthcare job. I have never had more than 1 interview

What are all these layers of interviews? How does each consecutive interview for the same job differ from the previous interview? Is there really no way for the employer to combine some of them, or ask better / more focused questions?

The most interview 'layers' I had for a position was two, and that was for the least-skilled job I've ever worked.

Do you have any data to back up your claim

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I'm a senior product manager. I was asked to interview for a role for 5K GBP. I said that 7.5K would be more reasonable. Is that a realistic monthly amount?

I've been trying to find a job for 2 years, still no luck. I haven't even gotten an interview. Still, I'm glad that others are able to get jobs.

idk that’s just like your opinion man

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This data is not beautiful

There is one interesting data point there: when you register a limited company with the UK government you’re given the choice whether to format the name as “Companyname Limited” or “Companyname Ltd”. So this shows that the split between the two is about equal.

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No no, where do the employers get the time to do that? don't they have an actual job they should do? I know that's part of HR's job, but you really need people who are intimately knowledgeable about the specific position present at the interviews, to ensure you get the right fit.

Oh i understand it for applicant. I meant from the hiring managers perspective.

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Thanks! Don’t mind the downvotes as it was a fun exercise.

I hear you about the wealth management company, but not sure if it will benefit us… I don’t think we have high wealth, just high-ish income for now. We have 2 large blocks of income and a few large blocks of expenses that will remain constant (and sadly still big) for a while. Maybe when we’re a bit older and have more “wealth” to manage.

We did 2 backdoor Roth contributions, which is why the funds come from post-tax money.

unemployment but that’s not necessarily the case with op edit: wow I’m dumb but if hiring is your entire job I can see someone doing this and it’s probably different people doing different interviews

Glad to see you're clean for almost two months now 🙌

Indeed, soon someone may ask, "Where are Slovakia, the Czech Republic,
or why are Norway and Iceland included if they're not part of the EU?"
Europe can be quite complicated. However, the answer to all these
questions is fairly straightforward: data availability. If a country
provides data to Eurostat, it becomes comparable with other states and
is included in the list. If a country doesn't provide this specific
statistic to Eurostat, it's left out.

Feb 26 looks brutal, I got tired just looking at that one. Thankfully the vertical gradient from yellow to light green makes this a generally positive graph!