😎 36 pretty damn cool jobs and 40+ questions for your next interview!
Issue #51 (15 May) – jobs are back; 40+ questions for your interview; Sifted Sessions; Adidas stuck with sneakers; seaflooding and Berlin ferries.
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Programming note: I finally published a new article: a Collection of 40+ questions to ask at a job interview, and I think it’s gut gelungen. Clearly biased, but I think it will be a great timeless resource. Read it, love it, share it, use it, bookmark it… and let me know which questions are missing. 😇
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👀 Handpicked twenty
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💾 Data & Operations.
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😎 Cool stuff:
🎨 I am looking for real art/posters for my walls (no generic Live Laugh Love, pls). If you have any good resources/shops/tips, please drop the links in the comments or on my email. 🙏
🎙️ Jenny is a freelance podcast producer and offers distinctive, high-quality podcast creation beyond interviews for organisations, companies or individuals.
Luke is an American based in Berlin and is available for freelance work in content writing, social media, and audience strategy.
🔍 Searching for roles:
🚨 Chahine, my former colleague at wefox, is looking for junior Data Analyst / BI Developer roles (good Python, SQL and Power BI skills). He is available immediately!
Gavin is a strategic product manager with a startup mindset and 15+ years of experience. Looking for a remote role from Toronto or to relocate to Berlin.
Heena is looking for backend and data science roles. She is an ex-Amazon Web Services engineer skilled in Python, Java, AWS services, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
Gabriel is a full-stack developer proficient in the MERN stack, Redux (ideally saga), and TypeScript. He is specifically looking for a React frontend role and has several years of experience.
🗞 Top inspiration snippets
Funding is noticeably drying up.
🇩🇪 Berlin & Other good stuff
✌️ Here is another reminder to check out my article with 40+ questions you can ask at the job interview. Disclosure: not written by ChatGPT!
🌟 Sifted is inviting you to Sifted Sessions in Berlin on Thursday, 25th of May. Free for startups! I’d meet you there, but I sadly won’t be in Berlin.
👻 Like all the startups beyond Series B, Bolt also plans to become profitable soon, specifically in the next 12 months, and then IPO in 2025. They might also do payments? More at Reuters. Meantime, Lyft, another Uber competitor, is firing 1100 employees.
⚡️ Remember all those predictions on the Russian gas and the collapse of Germany? Here is an interesting article about the concept of substitutes in economics (the fallacy: “When the average person thinks about a 40% reduction in natural gas supplies, they implicitly assume that each natural gas-dependent industry must cut its usage by 40%.”), but it is also worth reading the comments for differing opinions (= free markets are BS.)
👀 Besides your burgers and curries, Lieferando started to deliver 100 different MediaMarkt products inside the Berlin ring (useful if you urgently need a phone charger or a phone, lol? and bad for their competitor Arive). Food & high margin product delivery is probably here to stay, but groceries? I think not.
📚Blinkist, a Berlin-based app that always felt like cheating to me, was bought by Go1 from Down Under; nobody asked me for my opinion, but a good time to exit with all the Generative AI knocking on the door! Now I should probably go back to my book.
🌊 Have you ever heard of Seaflooding? Me neither, but it reads like a great idea. Flooding parts of the Sahara to reduce the ocean levels? Plus, make some energy on the way? Let’s do it!
👟 Adidas is stuck with €1B worth of Yeezy sneakers since the man lost his mind, but, amongst other batshit crazy stuff, found a purpose in antisemitism. They plan to sell them gradually and partially donate the proceeds. (€, 🇩🇪) What a problem to have.
⛴️ Exberliner delivers again! Berlin has plenty of ferries; I see myself using some in the summer. This article also made me think I need a “handpicked Berlin bucket list.”
😔 Bad news: nobody is publishing news about layoffs anymore! There are three options: 1) all layoffs are done; 2) all layoffs are silent; 3) nobody is laying off. I vote for 2). Infarm leaving Berlin & Europe; okäse (Köln) insolvent.
r/berlin choice of the week is this DDR map of Berlin from 1988; comments deliver as usual.
💬 Briefly:
swedish Northvolt plans to build a battery gigafactory in Schleswig-Holstein (and employ 3k people) with support from the state and Bund - careers;
Revolut’s CFO is leaving, which is never a good sign, especially after problems with acquiring a banking licence in the UK. On a more positive note: they will start to sell ETFs via Berlin’s Upvest;
Trivago, the troubled aggregator of the aggregators, changed almost their complete board;
VW will restructure Cariad, its software arm, replacing its CEO with Peter Bosch (ex-Bentley);
Google did not release Bard in the EU because of GDPR/regulation worries;
Unstoppable Finance (Berlin-based crypto play) wants to get a banking license in 2024;
Mobileye will do automated assistance and navigate-on-pilot functions for Porsche;
FS Italiane ordered 40 locomotives from Siemens worth €300M;
Rheinmetall is planning to start production in Ukraine.
💸 Recently funded in Berlin & Germany
Blocktorch | Berlin | Facilitates Web3 engineering teams to quickly understand and rectify errors | $4.2M | Careers.
DearEmployee | Konstanz/Berlin | Corporate health start-up | undisclosed, pre-series A | Careers.
Jolt Energy | Dublin and Munich | Constructs ultra-fast charging stations for e-mobility | €150M | Careers.
Voltfang | Aachen | Develops energy storage solutions for residential homes | €5M | Careers.
Wingcopter | Darmstadt | Delivery drones with the goal of becoming a global market leader | €40M | Careers.
😅 Meanwhile
Twitter got a new CEO
This is a footer 🌊 fact for you. I learned about the 1755 Lisbon earthquake in Portugal. The tsunamis were big, but not as big as the 300m open-ocean waves caused by the asteroid that ended dinosaurs 66M years ago.
✌️ Handpicked resources:
- The best questions to ask at a job interview
- Write it down now! Or why you should journal at work?
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