application_cohort.json was caught by the blanket job_scout/state/*
ignore, so the cohort slot record (core/adjacent/stretch mix and every
application's fit class, evidence fit, hard gate and outcome) existed
only on one machine. decisions.json escaped the same rule only because
it had been tracked before the rule was added - an accident of history,
not a decision.
Both files are durable application history and belong in the repo. The
churny scan state (seen_jobs.json, last_scrape.json) stays ignored, as
does reports/ - all of it is regenerable by re-running the scout.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MHtzyTKBcg6BWhD5qFegtK
Application log updates from the 2026-08-24 scout run and the days after.
SBB Data Engineer (Asset Management, Bern, job 103755): SUBMITTED
2026-08-25. Consumes Core slot 2/7 in evidence-first-2026-01. Submitted
with the Anforderungsniveau K comp question still unresolved, against
the channel plan and the critique's closing advice, so the K band, the
design-vs-build-and-run scope question and the Kidz Care rate are now
screening-call topics rather than pre-cleared facts. Next action changed
from "call then submit" to "prep an interview brief". The stale pointer
to an /edit-resume Tier 1 fix is removed - that fix landed 2026-08-21.
Snowflake Sr SWE Enterprise (Observe): CLOSED - NO RESPONSE at 80 days
silent, past the longest real disposition in the log (Equinor, 79).
Recorded as closed_no_response, deliberately NOT as a rejection: none
was ever received, so it must not enter rejection statistics or read as
a document-quality signal. Pre-dates the cohort, so no slot is freed.
An ~86/100 package - the highest in the log - drawing no reply at all is
the strongest evidence yet that the constraint is channel, not documents.
Unblocks the Observe Metrics Platform req, which was paused only to
avoid stacking a second cold application on the same org.
Norway lane: corrected a false "closed" framing that had propagated into
the Equinor row and was used to dismiss Norwegian rows in the scout
readout. The lane is OPEN but selective. The gates are norsk working
language and NO security clearance - NOT compensation: the 180k bar is
CH-only and explicitly does not apply to Norway. Equinor, Telenor and
NATO JWC stay in the scout.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MHtzyTKBcg6BWhD5qFegtK
User declined at the gate: 69 is not a strong enough fit to spend a package on.
Consistent with revealed behaviour — every application actually submitted scored
77.5-89; nothing below 75 has ever been sent.
No cohort slot consumed (Adjacent stays 1/2). No bullets written, no resume, no
cover letter. Phase 0 analysis retained in the session file in case a
better-fitting AWS req appears.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pipeline:
- SDU PhD: closed, not proceeding. Prof. Jørgensen never replied to the
2026-08-02 enquiry; user dismissed it two days before the 2026-08-20 deadline.
- Google FDE III GTM: closed, not proceeding after two Google rejections. The
bar for a third attempt is now a very strong fit; this was Adjacent with an
agent-orchestration gap. Frees the Adjacent cohort slot (back to 1/2).
JD triage — 5 pulled and read, 1 survives:
- SHORTLIST AWS Senior FDE Zurich: all four basic quals pass and AI/agentic is
preferred-only, unlike the Google Senior Staff FDE where vector DB + RAG were
minimum quals. AWS is the evidenced cloud; JD names Kiro, which he uses.
- SKIP AWS ProServe Bern (clinical pharma domain gate), AWS Principal Delivery
Consultant (8+ yrs architecture leadership + VP+ exec comms), GitLab FDE EMEA
(Ruby/Go hard gate), MS 200044133 (title says FDE Data Scientist, quals are
BGP/MPLS/SD-WAN network engineering — mislabelled req).
Roster:
- Dropped Louis Dreyfus: 300 roles, all Brazil/India/Bulgaria ops, zero Swiss.
- Kept MET Group: its "0 eligible" was a filter artifact; exclusion mode reveals
real Baar/Zug commodity-trading roles.
- Kept Equinor/Telenor/NATO. Memory corrected: the Norway lane is selective, not
closed — the user still wants very good Norwegian roles.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Equinor Manager / AI Architect (JR106747): REJECTED 2026-08-14, no interview.
79 days from submission (2026-05-27) to disposition, the longest turnaround
recorded. Pre-dates the evidence-first-2026-01 cohort (started 2026-07-27),
so it does not free an Adjacent cohort slot. Norway lane now reduced to the
open Aker BP application.
Microsoft Senior SWE, ISE Zurich (200040836): REJECTED 2026-08-11, no
interview, ~39 days. The separate Principal FDE req 200043897 is a different
pipeline and remains open.
Also carries forward uncommitted work from the 08-07 / 08-11 sessions:
- Google FDE III, Cloud GTM (78350205438567110) Phase 0 session file and
scraped JD; Adjacent, Evidence Fit 67/100, hard gate PASS.
- Scout skip decisions: BIS jr100411 (platform admin, not data eng), two
Google reqs gated on a C++ minimum qualification, and the FDE III
Generative AI sibling req confirmed taken down.
- settings.local.json: allow the job_scout venv python invocation.
Every closed application to date has been Channel Weak with no interview.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Aker BP ASA — Data Product Architect (FINN 469067315): archive the finalized
resume/CL sources, JD, session and critique. Submitted 2026-07-30 ahead of the
2026-08-02 deadline; logged as applied in the scout decision log and marked
SUBMITTED in Active Sessions.
KB: record Atlassian Compass as Swisscom's metadata/catalogue platform for data
products and lineage (user-confirmed 2026-07-29). Practitioner use only —
claims.json forbids claiming administration, rollout or ownership, and it is
explicitly not a substitute claim for Purview, Collibra or Alation.
Also: close out the Google Business Home session (no interview), extend the job
scout, and allow the job-board domains used during the Aker BP research.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Tighten eligibility to CH/DK/Europe-remote (Equinor Norway-only, NATO DK+NO), add Taleo adapter, parallel API fetches, atomic state writes, and empty-board warnings. Log NATO AI Engineer as applied and Architect as skip.
Equinor (Workday) and BFH (Bern, playwright) wired up as new sources; artificial
intelligence/analytics-engineer keywords added so int'l-org listings (BIS) stop scoring
as noise. certifi-backed SSL context works around Workday certs failing verification
against a stale Windows root store.
location_matches() previously treated "remote + any single named EU country" as
CH-eligible, which let single-country residency-locked listings (e.g. Databricks'
"Remote - United Kingdom") pass as if they were open EU-wide. Now requires either a
pan-regional keyword (Europe/EMEA/Global/Worldwide) or 2+ distinct countries named.
Denmark is carved out as its own always-on relocation category (on-site or remote,
any company), replacing the previous Databricks-only opt-in.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two applications sent and finalized on 2026-06-15:
- Google - Senior Data Engineer (Merchant Data Science, Zurich), 85.5/100.
Tier-1 scope fix + both Tier-2 polish applied: re-scoped the Swisscom
migration claim in resume B2 + CL P2 (Scope-Discipline), added project-
delivery vocab (B4), and JD-exact 'distributed data processing' (B5).
- Kraken (Payward) - SRE, AI Agents (remote, CH-eligible), 87.2/100.
Finalized as-is; crypto-native + production-ML edge, honest infra gaps.
Logs both as 'applied' in job_scout/state/decisions.json and flips their
CLAUDE.md Active Sessions rows to SENT. Open item for both: confirm level
and comp clear the 180k+ all-in bar at the recruiter stage.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Records the 2026-06-06 application (Observe by Snowflake, ~86/100) in the
decision log so it stops resurfacing as a new match.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Track per-job decisions across runs so we don't re-evaluate roles.
- state/decisions.json (keyed by URL: company/title/decision/note/date), now
git-tracked while seen_jobs.json stays local
- --decide "<url>" <status> [note] records a decision; --hide-decided gives an
undecided-only view; report tags each role inline with its decision
- usage docstring updated
- seed 18 decisions (9 shortlist, 7 skip, 1 paused, 1 maybe); flags Google Staff
FDE GenAI as the paused prior session
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
