u/Lowkeykreepy

I want to give a present to my LandLord (German Lady)

What do you think? What should I give her?

I’m not from Germany so I don’t have any idea. And she really helped me when i was new, now since i am moving so i want to give her a present

Whats the culture here?

Edit: added more details

Tibo did it again

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I’m new to Germany and living in Deggendorf and still learning how things work culturally here.

Today there was a road blockage with several police officers directing traffic because the traffic lights were not working. It was really hot, so I went to Aldi and bought some juices to offer them.

I offered drinks to three officers (2 Female and 1 male). One accepted, and two politely declined. They were all nice about it, but I started wondering whether offering drinks to police officers on duty is unusual or maybe not allowed in Germany.

Did I do something wrong, or is it just normal for officers to decline things while working?

Thanks!

NOTE: Thank you all for the reply

as the title says

GPT 5.5 is being very weird this past week and I feel they nerfed it.

anyone else facing the same?

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This is specifically for CS/DS folks. Yeah, I said it. Most of the CV here is trash. Coping about learning german isn’t going to make your CV magically better.

If you’re competent(in this context: a good CV), you will get interview calls regardless.

A good CV doesn’t mean your formatting—sure, it matters—but the content of the CV itself. Guess my german? A2 on a good day.

Now, why would you think that I am credible enough to write this post? Why, I will tell you all. Here is my career timeline:

2026 (Oct) - Incoming Anthropic Fellowship

2026(May) - Amazon MLE Intern/(Found a GF and got leaner/muscular @96Kg)

2025(May) - Google SWE Intern (started getting leaner @135 Kg)

2024(Oct) - Student research assistant at Uni

2024(April) - werkstudent in a startup in Berlin (left early)

2024(April) - Uni Started

So, coming back to the topic, how did I get a job so soon? Simple, IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF YOUR CV

I will tell it out loud, GERMAN DOESN’T FUCKING MATTER AND ITS JUST A COPE FOR A BAD CV. Bring in the “survivorship bias” comments.

With that, I will tell you how to improve your CV.

1. Get a publication. Find student assistant positions at your Uni, Fraunhofer, MPI, HPI. I took a class with a professor and simply approached him for work. I volunteered to help him and that later converted to my student assistant position. I did a solid project there.
2. Leetcode. If you’re not grinding leetcode then I don’t know what to even say.
3. GO TO FUCKING HACKATHONS. Look into Optiver’s TUM hackathon. I travelled all the way to Munich just to attend this.
4. Add one/two very-strong technical project; do not add shitty LLM wrappers/chatbots that I see here. My projects: A custom-NN accelerator, a GPU accelerated RL engine.
5. Get a referral from an existing employee at the company.
6. Keep applying. You have to be willing to spam companies.
7. Luck. Yes, it’s true.

Will learning german improve your prospects? Maybe, maybe not. Nobody knows. I personally don’t think people give a shit about the language in berlin/munich as long as you have the skills.

These are the things—or the combination of ‘em—that will get you interview calls. The people that I work with have stellar CVs. Sometimes, I feel incompetent.

My application-to-interview ratio kept going higher as I added these things. After FAANG, I stopped applying anyway. I get interview calls from wherever I apply. Even if the language is a hard-requirement, they are willing to bend-over-backwards to hire me.

Not to brag, but improve the quality of your CV.

I won’t accept dms. Don’t bother. I can answer things here but this post should be enough.

Edit: some idiot is arguing with me that I should spoil my working relationship with employers. I think this sub really doesn’t want advice and only wants to know things that corroborates their own beliefs. It’s okay. I will delete the post later anyway since I understand now. Less competition for me.

I suddenly got logged out from my phone and laptop and now its asking for phone number, whats going on??

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I'm a pro ($200) user and since the 2x promo ended my limit is being used like crazy, I've sent only 4 prompts and used 20% of my 5h limit and 7% of weekly limit.

Note that I'm using gpt 5.5 with Medium reasoning effort

Hi,

I’m looking for ChatGPT Pro ($200) a sub subscription if anyone can provide it please let me know

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Just opened the app on my macbook after 2 months and its stuck here, I've tried restarting but its still there, how can i fix it?

As the title says, I'm new to germany and want to make some german friends, talk to locals and will try to integrate into the society but the issue is that I don't understand german language but I'm trying very hard. So for the time being what can i do?

Btw: I'm from Munich

any tips/advice/recommendations are highly appreciated

edit: Typo Edit 2: added location

Hi everyone,

I’m an international student currently studying at Deggendorf Institute of Technology and I’m looking for a part-time job in or around Deggendorf.

If anyone knows places that are hiring or has suggestions on where students usually find part-time work here, I’d really appreciate the help.

My German is still a work in progress, but my English is good (C1). If you have any suggestions or know of opportunities, feel free to comment or DM me.

Thanks!