Bonum Certa Men Certa

Most “Job Applicants to an Examiner Position at EPO Who Were Offered a Job Did Not Take it”

Desirability of EPO jobs has plunged for nearly a decade already [1, 2], deepening the crisis (the EPO cannot recruit people in accordance with the standards set/specified by the EPC)

To all those who think that the EPO is heaven on earth, according to my info in 2021 more than 50% – FIFTY – of the job applicants to an examiner position at EPO who were offered a job did not take it, many of them not even bothering to inform the EPO that they would not come. So to those who think that the working conditions at EPO are over the top, that the working atmosphere is cool or the kind of work one performs there is so exciting, well sorry but Gen Z and millennials may beg to differ
This new comment contains what seems like new information



Summary: One of many interesting comments left since Monday

Recent Techrights' Posts

The Register MS: "AI" More Than 80 Times in One Article. But It's Not an Article, It's Sponsored Keyword-stuffed Page.
The Register MS is being paid to actively promoted this scheme
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 09, 2026
IRC logs for Thursday, July 09, 2026
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, July 08, 2026
IRC logs for Wednesday, July 08, 2026
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, July 07, 2026
IRC logs for Tuesday, July 07, 2026
Links 07/07/2026: Microsoft Cuts Doom "id Software" and Turkey Detains Journalists
Links for the day
Gemini Links 07/07/2026: Old Computer Challenge (OCC) and Hardware Tests
Links for the day
A Break From the Routine
What matters is what whistleblowers keep feeding information to us
SLAPP Censorship - Part 132 Out of 200: When You Cannot Pay a Million Pounds (1,335,520.00 United States Dollar) to Lawyers But Have a Strong Community
Techrights compensates for its fiscal poverty with a wealth of community spirit
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Czech Mate: EPO Kingmaker or Merely a Pawn in the Game?
recent "missions" of the EPO President
Fame is Not the Goal
"Fame" kills
Mental Health in Free Software Communities
clearly there is a subject that merits debate and it ought not be a taboo anymore
The Era of Sponsored Spam
There is no "era of AI", there is era of BRIBES to PRETEND there is an "era of AI"