Maybe it varies between regions. We were based near Mannheim, and it was hard to find interesting software startups. Our town even has a technical university wh

Maybe it varies between regions. We were based near Mannheim, and it was hard to find interesting software startups. Our town even has a technical university which meant that graduates were always looking for jobs in a market that didn't have that much to offer. In the web world, developers mainly had the choice between working for an advertising agency or work at a very small shop with less than 5 people. Non-web devs would have to choose either IBM in Mainz or SAP in Walldorf as a matter of course. At least that's what it looked like from my perspective, I could be wrong. So yeah, we got a lot of CVs for any job postings and people were also sending them in when we had no openings. I guess the region was just starved.