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Some quick feedback specific to the listings I got when I plugged in "Germany": almost everything I found is internships. You mention in a comment elsewhere that intern is the new entry-level, but over here internships are almost exclusively for current students, and the ones I peeked at all had that restriction. And taking on internships in parallel to University is rare here (at the Universities I'm aware of), at least in CS.

Maybe you could consider adding a filter to remove internships? Otherwise the site is rather useless for non-students here.

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I plugged in "remote" and got physician positions for hospitals in Ohio. This does seem rather useless and unrefined.

Yes, the "remote" jobs are still in testing. We will be adding more very soon. Thanks for your feedback.

Thank you for your feedback. Yes, we are working on adding more jobs for every country. And categories/ filtering should be ready in the next few weeks.

Great to hear! I understand adding listings from around the globe is difficult, I was honestly somewhat surprised to find any listings at all.

Good luck with the project, I hope it will be useful for many, even if not for me.

Yes, it is haha. Thank you very much!

What do you mean by internships both being exclusive to current students but rare to take on in parallel to being in university? Only during breaks?

Well, it is my impression that internships are just a lot rarer than they are in the US, for example. Many students go through a Bachelors and Masters degree without ever doing one, me included. Most internships are done by students doing a degree that explicitly requires them to do one and gives them a semester off for it.

With "in parallel" I did mean breaks, however. Depending on your school, you don't get a lot of those either. This semester my last exam would have been on 4/15 (if it weren't for the current situation), and lectures start again the same day. Admittedly I could have chosen an earlier date for that exam, but even then it would have been 3/23 (this Monday). That would have given me at most three weeks to do an internship, and that's just not worth it for me. Other semesters have been similar.

It is my understanding a lot of schools in the US do trimesters, essentially, so you could do internships over the summer, we don't. Our semesters are half a year each.

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