> yet side mirrors are large enough and concave (like on all modern cars) that if you set them up properly, there's really no blind spot a car or bike can fit in.
Not in the US unfortunately. All my European cars had almost no blind spot. Then I moved to the US and was really surprised.
Exactly - LeetCode, system design, behavioral interview - you can prepare for it.
I was interviewing for the last few months and got plenty of LeetCode Hard questions. Was designing a time-series database at least three times. And talking about a situation when I had a conflict with my colleague at least five times :-)
There are some companies where the only way to get promoted is to release a new better improved system. So there is an endless loop of rewrites and migrations all over the company.
If you don't like it, you will probably have to join a place with a different culture.
Edit:
If this is the case only for SRE roles then you need to find out why are you rewriting and moving to new, shinier systems. Is there a big improvement? Or is it just for a sake of changing something?
I believe, when you are employed, you must also pay pension insurance, unemployment insurance, health insurance and other. No way you will be at 20-25 percent in Germany.
When you count employer contributions, then you are quite close to 50%.
Nothing changed for people who were pirating their books. They are still freely available on the Internet.
And people who were buying their ebooks can't anymore.