I was looking for a job, had 3 offers all of them without an assignment.

I had one job opportuniy i liked, with a 4h assignment and i didn't get the job.

I fully accept doing and learning for Google or Microsoft or Apple etc. but they pay in germany like 30-50k a year more than the normal companies.

Normal company is 80k, the others are 120k up to 160k.

And others mentioned it but i want to repeat it: The offer i actually took (and it was the best choice as well) was actually because an ex collegue pointed me to it. There was already a foot in the door.