3 years ago I applied thousand jobs across EU and finally landed a job in the Netherlands for an analytics role in a technology company (±1 billion revenue).

However I couldn’t help but to notice that I got so many interviews from German companies that never progressed from the first interview. They immediately said I wasn’t a good fit and didn’t bother to send a business case study.

I read that sometimes recruiters interview people just to add numbers on their KPI goals and one of them is to ensure they at least interview people of color. Is this actually a thing?

While I am glad in my current state I always wondered what went wrong with my interviews