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Re:How fresh grads with zero experience get hired as senior ... by tragictrash on Friday February 11, 2022 @01:20PM (#30305026)
It might not be rare to you but you have to realize that there are 6+ billion people on this planet. It's fucking rare.
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Re:How fresh grads with zero experience get hired as senior ... by selestify on Friday February 11, 2022 @01:22PM (#30305058)
No duh, but a city of a million people is a pretty fucking big city. It’s not that rare.
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Re:How fresh grads with zero experience get hired as senior ... by lovich on Friday February 11, 2022 @02:24PM (#30305898)
You realize rarity is referencing the relative percentage of an event or item and not the absolute number right? If you have 1 million people in the numerator, but 100 million in the denominator, then the rate is pretty rare
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Re:How fresh grads with zero experience get hired as senior ... by Tijdreiziger on Friday February 11, 2022 @02:06PM (#30305667)
On a planetary scale, I wouldn't actually consider that 'pretty fucking big'. For comparison (metro areas, figures from Wikipedia):

San Francisco: 4.7 million

Berlin: 6.1 million

London: 14.3 million

NYC: 20.1 million

Shenzhen: 23.3 million

Tokyo: 37.5 million

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Re:How fresh grads with zero experience get hired as senior ... by tragictrash on Friday February 11, 2022 @04:36PM (#30307295)
I never realized how big Tokyo is. Wow.
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Re:How fresh grads with zero experience get hired as senior ... by Tijdreiziger on Saturday February 12, 2022 @09:49AM (#30313193)
In fairness, it was a bit unfair to include that one, as Tokyo is the biggest city in the world!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities#List

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