You always have a chance!

I'm in my 30s too

A little better, not so many "leetcode" questions and a lot more higher level questions to test my understanding of full systems.

A lot of people are complaining about 8 interviews. But it depends on the type of interviews. If there were a couple of screens where they decided they liked you, then the rest could be half hour calls to meet the rest of the team 1 on 1. That would be just as useful for the applicant as the company.

I remember a time when interviews used to be two-way discussions. Now they are more like interrogation sessions.

it probably looks like this because, in Switzerland, the density in the dense parts is "denser" than in Germany

Data are not good for Italy, all of the north should look like Piedmont, can't say specifically for the south but it definitely would look much better than depicted here

You know there have to be some manager positions with high wages bc they are soooo important. So important that they decide who to employ.

Ahhh thank you for confirming that at 35 I have no chance being self taught.

Congratulations on your new job.

How was your overall impression of the interviewing process compared to your last job hunts?

Italy is interesting, we can see difference between rich north and poor south of country

I almost certain 1-2 or 3 years have no substancial impact on these stats. Electric car make 2-3% in most these countries, Norway is exception with ~15% electric cars share. People and economies are slow to change.

This has nothing to do with the sub. Not only is this data not beautiful it's not even readable.

I think it largely depends on how you define the classes and what segment you’re looking at.

I think (not sure) class is mostly driven by wealth, so we would likely fall in the upper-middle class range, particularly in similarly geos (LA, SF, NYC), which is what I’d use to compare. Nationally, maybe a bit higher.

On the other hand, if we’re talking about lifestyle or disposable income for LA/SF/NYC, I would say probably even middle class.

Would you agree with that?

It’s all relative right, OP can certainly consider himself rich, as he has every need covered and saving 100k per year. However, if you actually look at what rich people bring in, the difference between that and OPs (or anyone below) is staggering.

Switzerland
Canton with less meters above sea have its capital have an elevation of 373m
Canton with more meters above sea have its capital have an elevation of 512m

Spain:
City with higher elevation in the peninsula: Avila with 1131m
And a lot of cities in the coast.

The diference in elevation is higher in Spain. The same train can (theorically) travel from Avila to the north coast.

2021 data,I wonder if it changes over time. Like if new car purchases are accelerating in countries with higher electric car availability and incentives, or of people are waiting the same amount of time before replacing

I agree with you, and noted this as important in my comment above. I'm just adding context for understanding why the SPM differs from the official measure of poverty.

Italy is no more part of Europe? fine, you are working on it...!

Why would it matter if they're not considered poor in the majority of the country, when their income makes them poor where they actually live? If you tell someone making $40k in San Francisco that $40k isn't considered poor in Mississippi, that doesn't help the fact that they can't pay their bills every month

Yes. I am not in the EU, but people can drive cars for many years, especially if they take decent care of them. My previous car I kept for 21 years, and it was still reliable. I would probably still be driving it, but my wife wanted some nicer features and so I bought a new car. I plan on keeping it until after 2040, unless something happens to it, or it turns out to be less reliable than expected. Given my age, this may be the last car I ever buy.

My guess is, some gasoline cars will still be on the road 50 years after no new ones are made, unless a ban on them is enacted. Some people like antique cars and drive them occasionally. Probably, a ban on them is the only way that they will be completely eliminated from the road in the foreseeable future.

But most railway lines were built when Switzerland wasn't rich yet. I think it is rather that a lot of railways, especially the ones in the mountains weren't dismantled because they were still usefull and powerfull in comparison to early cars

This is not just trains. For my area of Germany this is way more than just the train lines and it is titles "public transport". So i guess that includes all regular bus lines as well.

In this case lower population density and hills shouldnt be that big of an issue.

Of course places with hardly any population at all like mountains dont need even buses but thats hardly the case in most of spain.

State by state would be neat, comparing denser northeast states with fairly old villages everywhere to western states like California that don't have that sort of high rural density.

Some were missing at all, some had somewhat different splits. I was too lazy to make adjustments so just excluded :)

Worth highlighting that because the SPM adjusts for geographical housing costs, high cost of living locations are naturally going to have much higher rates of poverty. Many people are being priced out of high cost of living areas (and is an important part of the picture), but also worth understanding that even people making well above the poverty line would be considered poor in this measure, even if they're not considered poor in the majority of the country.