Probably Kagi is using candidates as "chatgpt" answers on what they want to further work on for free. I have already suspect this kind of shenigans 2 years ago and stopped my Kagi subscription. As for adverts on positions, ghost jobs likely. That is the current trends. As for Jose, don't be surprised say 3 years from now they contact you. Some companies pool potential candidates like backup boyfriends. I usually just flat out ban this kind of companies and actively spread these companies to my circle to avoid. The lost is really on these companies without further access to specific job pool (and even customers) and of course bad evangelism on their part for decades to come even if they have changed.
This is very speculative so I left it out of the blog post. But... 'market research' is typical endeavour for companies breaking into an unknown space, the decent ones will carry out focus groups with experienced professionals and pay for people's time.
This kind of "do something for X but we won't tell you how!" looks a whole lot like market research disguised as an interview, that way they can do the research for free.
In terms of stats, Chicago+NYC+LA are up there in legendary tiers. Florida probably negligible if you use those cities instead. Forfeiture is bad though sjould have been banned.
USA lacks vigilante assasinations. In some countries in the east communities can dispatch assassins to get officers who are corrupted. The punishments extend to family members as well. This usually able to regulate a lot of corruptions and misconduct in the west. In essence the rule of law in the east are enforced by "social contract" or in American sense "by the people". In the west, these has been severely suppressed in place of laws that dont apply to them. Take China for example with their triads. There were few legendary cases where clans tracked down former corrupted leos and exterminated their grandchildren (water margin is one such "documented folklore). In the west you see this as "family feud like ninjas" but it occurs quite frequently if lived long enough there. The west is very fixated on a single possible tyrant but forgot day-to-day mini-tyrants. In the east the reverse is true. This is also one reason where most eastern asian countries adopted informally dictactorial system and perform way way better than American system.
Able to talk like execs with those bombastic meaningless words get you more and faster result than what you describe here. You assume ratchet is always grinding thru within a company. Study mba then move out of the company after a few years then boomerang back still will achieve higher status than say your ratcheting. Stephen Elop was a good example. I doubt anyone will comment he was strong engineer. You need luck and significant talking skill. Strong or not strong technical skill, you can use chatgpt.
