According to this article you apply and they will select a 100 people from the pool. How is this different than a normal interview except the flight is a little longer.
Because it sounds like a hiring fair and not a specific company that might want to hire you. And you get voted on as being a good candidate and not a specific company being interested in hiring you.
I think they pay for week's worth of accommodation. That's already different than most interviews.
Plus the flight is very expensive
The flight price is trivial compared with the 48 hours travel time plus jetlag.
(Source: doing the return trip right now)
People used to need weeks to travel across an ocean, toughen up.
Just because something else was more shit doesn't make it any less shit.
Lol, most of us produce more value in an hour than those people produced in a week. It's not about being tough. It's about being worth two orders of magnitude more.
I really need to toughen up! I'm not on a boat or a plane right now.
Did this trip 6 or more times, it's not that bad...
You spend a night kind of drunk but that is it.
Same; about . I made the mistake once of trying it sober though.. :|