For switzerland the "stem" type probably only applies to farmers nowadays. The others live in a more nuclear family. 100 years ago the graphic might have been applicable ;)

You have nothing to lose, there are thousands of companies searching for developers. Inevitably, some of them won't invite you to interviews, but there are always others :-)

Regarding blacklists, I don't think that it is common (unless if you insult the interviewing person maybe?). In large companies, they usually have many offerings, so if you are rejected from one, you can just apply for another...

One recommendation could be to send your first application to a company which does not interest you that much. So you can gain confidence without having to be afraid

If I understand this correctly, it only affects certificates issued by public CAs (certificates for public websites, for example). So for certs issued by a company CA (e.g. for internal infrastructure), it should not apply. Can anyone confirm?

When I was working with COBOL and a 30yrs old codebase, I was always scared of majorly fucking up, even when only doing small changes.

Really glad that I am not involved in that project...

Yes sure! Unfortunately most companies which I work for (insurance and banks mostly) still use windows quite often...

From an enterprise IT stance I'd disagree. For phython you need an interpreter, while powershell is available on every random windows 20xx server. It is far easier to do this task in PS than requesting the python interpreter to be installed on the machine and then doing it in python.

If privacy is your concern, then I'd use two different mail addresses / domains. One with your "professional" TLD ([email protected]) and one wirh your privacy focussed TLD ([email protected]).