No, I just became much more confident, and also more picky in the companies I interviewed with. I genuinely looked for fit, yellow/red flags, as opposed to saying whatever the companies wanted. For example, one finance tech company I interviewed with asked me to do an "aptitude test" and I told them what I truthfully thought about that (racist and pseudo science).
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Any thoughts on why the number of applications were so much higher in 2018 and 2019? Did you feel the market got more competitive?
No, I just became much more confident, and also more picky in the companies I interviewed with. I genuinely looked for fit, yellow/red flags, as opposed to saying whatever the companies wanted. For example, one finance tech company I interviewed with asked me to do an "aptitude test" and I told them what I truthfully thought about that (racist and pseudo science).