Maybe if I’d claimed to know something with 100% certainty….. I haven’t done that. I haven’t claimed anything other than you are overconfident in your assertion.

Cool, so no, you don't :)

I know right. I am currently on the job hunt with 2 years experience and I have submitted over 150 applications and only a handful of first interviews. Mostly no responses or rejections.

Now I'm curious which one did your partner take? The 5 interviews one or the 8?

Also damn, that's a lot of interviews.

Ahhhh, are you mostly on linkedin? I feel like I get contacted more by headhunters for mid-sized companies than pre-ipo, but that could just be because I'm ex-faang with no startup exp.

LOL you realize that means youre more of an example of it than less right? Because you do have some experience you think that you have all experience in the field.

*Arriva is owned by Deutsche Bahn

Strange. As a middle wage worker, my wage "growth" has decreased by almost double digits.

Does the SPM take homelessness into account? If it has weighting for higher rates of unhoused individuals, the correlation could simply be with climate. CA and TX for example are wealthy, have higher than average homelessness, and have few days below freezing annually in their major population centers.

What in the world are they doing that they need five interviews? Just wasting everyone's time.

I actually work with machine learning for a living

That is absolutely disgusting, but congrats.... I guess.

Why didn’t all 5 interviewers just sit in a conference room and interview you together, you know, like coworkers able to collaborate? Or at the very least 2 groups…You would think that would be more helpful for the company as well: saving time, hearing each other’s questions and all of your responses, observing how well you interact in group settings vs one-on-one…

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Yes you are a good example of this. Good eye.

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https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/basics/dunning-kruger-effect?amp

Population density Source: Wikipedia, 2023.

3900 people/km² Berlin

4092 people/km² Zürich

What city?

Four interviews and ghosted?? There is something wrong with this world

For all of them I think. As someone who’s used public transportation somewhat in Belgium, it feels way worse than the Netherlands, idk, it’s not data, but going by personal experience it feels wrong.

Google and Facebook do 2 rounds of interviews.

Remember that when anyone requires you to do 3+ rounds.

Honestly out of those 9 companies I had interview rounds with, only one was a super established company, the others were pre-ipo companies

8 interviews is quite reasonable if the role is highly compensated. It’s not out of the question for PMs to be paid 7 figures in total compensation in Silicon Valley

They said dense parts, compare Berlin to zurich