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What skills do you have to make you competitive in a saturated market?
Do you really think corporations are going to hire less qualified minorities if it impacts their bottom line?
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Do any of your real life friends accuse you of racism? Do you find that Indian managers hire their own? I'm assuming you're not Indian. I applied to FedEx affiliated company for SWE, and everyone except upper management was Indian. I was shocked.
I haven't been accused of being racist by anyone I know (especially not for pointing out a lack of diversity). I haven't experienced any Indian managers hiring their own, but I've only had one Indian manager. That isn't really a concern for me; small amounts of prejudice are to be expected, and if they grow to large-enough proportions they can be proven in court and adjudicated. What concerns me is a systemic trend t…
What are you referring to here? Care to share some sources?
Many recruiters continue to reach out to me on LinkedIn mostly, including FAANG companies. All of the positions are either a 3-2 hybrid or completely on-site. In such cases, these companies want to phone screen and have the first round technical interview via Zoom or something. I've been telling the recruiter that, unless the company allows fully-remote work, I will not allow for a remote interview; however I am happ…
1. I had a recruiter from Amazon reach out to me about “exciting opportunities” as an SDE on LinkedIn. The issue was that my profile showed that I was already working at AWS.
2. A recruiter from Google reached out to me about an Engineering Manager position. Not only did I not have any management experience on my profile, my current position then was in the consulting department (full time) at AWS - it wasn’t even officially software development
3. A recruiter from Meta reached out to me about a senior software engineer position in AI. Again, my profile clearly showed a bunch of no name CRUD developer jobs and then working in consulting
Recruiter outreach is no indication of careful targeted outreach
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Have you considered that the bitterness that drips out of your posts here might be part of the reason you're having trouble finding work? Half the interview (ideally) measures technical competence. The other half is "would I like to work with this person?" I don't know what you're like in person, but if I looked you up and found your HN comment history, you'd be a no hire. Sorry.
> Have you considered that the bitterness that drips out of your posts here might be part of the reason you're having trouble finding work? Bitterness? Have you considered that you're reading my posts wrong? Having a different political opinion than you does not equate to bitterness. No - I'm not bitter at all. And as I've made quite clear on linkedin, I want nothing to do with an employer who tries to strong arm me…
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Care to explain? A lot of the reasons posited here involve, for example, Elon firing 70+% of Twitter staff and still having a “functional” site. Elon doesn’t seem to have a particular leftward lean. Covid related stimulus (advocated by those in the left) in fact fueled a lot of the rapid growth in engineering roles in the past four years. We are also locked in with at least the next four years of very right leaning U…
The explanation is simple: most people on the left love immigration. Well guess what, people on H1Bs are competing for the same tech jobs everyone else is. There is this fallacy (promoted by the tech billionaires) that the import of tech workers is due to a lack of skill in local workers, and this is simply not true (very much the opposite actually), I saw it first hand at every single company I worked at; the real r…
Heck his “cochair” of the DOGE, Vivek, got into an X fight with the MAGA contingent about how Indian workers kick the ass of Americans. Again, not exactly a raging liberal.
I think your categories ('white male', 'Indian', ...) are a form of racism already. I mean, there are other categories you can use. Outsourcing, offshoring, and nearshoring all describe something similar (cutting costs by replacing the workforce) but do not categorize humans based on racial factors. I understand this is not the core of your question, but I did not want to leave it uncommented because I think it is in…
Many recruiters continue to reach out to me on LinkedIn mostly, including FAANG companies. All of the positions are either a 3-2 hybrid or completely on-site. In such cases, these companies want to phone screen and have the first round technical interview via Zoom or something. I've been telling the recruiter that, unless the company allows fully-remote work, I will not allow for a remote interview; however I am happ…
Well recruiters are idiots for the most part: 1. I had a recruiter from Amazon reach out to me about “exciting opportunities” as an SDE on LinkedIn. The issue was that my profile showed that I was already working at AWS. 2. A recruiter from Google reached out to me about an Engineering Manager position. Not only did I not have any management experience on my profile, my current position then was in the consulting dep…
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> Have you considered that the bitterness that drips out of your posts here might be part of the reason you're having trouble finding work? Bitterness? Have you considered that you're reading my posts wrong? Having a different political opinion than you does not equate to bitterness. No - I'm not bitter at all. And as I've made quite clear on linkedin, I want nothing to do with an employer who tries to strong arm me…
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I haven't been accused of being racist by anyone I know (especially not for pointing out a lack of diversity). I haven't experienced any Indian managers hiring their own, but I've only had one Indian manager. That isn't really a concern for me; small amounts of prejudice are to be expected, and if they grow to large-enough proportions they can be proven in court and adjudicated. What concerns me is a systemic trend t…
> This essentially erases their culture and robs the children of any freedom of identity. From single-digit ages they are being forced (under threat of discipline) to provide economic security for their parents. That is sickening. What are you referring to here? Care to share some sources?
While I have been self-employed for a few decades, I do see and hear about what's happening out there. I have many friends who have had challenges and others who are afraid to leave their jobs, even when paid well under what they are worth. One of them finally gave up and took a job in the oil fields in New Mexico. This, after sending hundreds of applications and enduring a few 5 to 7 stage interviews, only to be tol…
People go to a technical college for this. The college you describe should introduce the student to a wide variety ideas and thoughts and history. When that is done going to a technical college to actual learn the craft is the better choice for those not programming in their spare time at a high level. Expecting hands on skills from a degree isn't fair because it is not what a degree means.
I have heard this argument many times and happen to think it is a false argument.
Universities (in the US) are not what they used to be. They are not culturally open. They have become dangerous monoculture indoctrination centers. STEM degrees, due to their nature, are not impacted as hard as are others. People in other non-STEM paths are in full-on monoculture indoctrination programs, even if not explicitly stated.
What isn't fair is for people to attend university in the US, graduate with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and not end-up with at least two things: Marketable skills that are competitive with anyone from other countries and, well, culture.
It just so happens that I attended both high school and university abroad and in the US. My family moved about due to business when I was in school. I have perspective to offer from the UK, US and Argentina.
I can tell you, without a shadow of a doubt, that US education has been an unmitigated disaster for DECADES. The problem with this is that, even if changes were to be made today, it will also take decades for the results to surface.
I am an immigrant in the US. I graduated from high school with a far deeper and broader cultural foundation than I would say most college graduates in the US. This is no joke. And this is why, if I were to use a nasty generalization, Americans are regarded as dumb and ignorant outside of the US. Of course, this isn't absolutely fair, it's a stereotype, and stereotypes do not apply to the entire population. However, there are measurable elements of this. Our schools are broken, from the bottom up.
We have a country where people graduate from university actually believing that communism and socialism are good things. This sounds so fucking stupid to immigrants who have actually lived in these regimes that I cannot even begin to describe it. It is surreal to see how the US has allowed this to happen.
To go back to what you said: "Expecting hands on skills from a degree isn't fair"
No my friend, what isn't fair is to graduate with $100K to $300K in debt and have that degree be so dubious that you have to endure five technical interviews before someone considers hiring you. And, in addition to that, the jobs you could have had go to H1B's because companies can make a case that you are not adequate for the job.
We should not make our children pay for substandard education. That is not fair.
My solution is simple: Stop pretending that we are teaching real culture and fire all the ideological assholes from these universities. Nobody should be forced to pay one single cent for this crap.
Teaching should be a meritocracy. Our schools are filled with "teachers" and "professors" that are worse than YouTube tutorial authors. Why are we making our children pay for mediocrity and incompetence.
I remember one of my kids having a science teacher in middle school who actually taught his classes that the moon does not rotate about its axis. And that was not the only incredibly ignorant thing he taught. I went to war and tried to get him fired. He had no business teaching science at all. He was a Chiropractor who got his teaching credentials and they gave him the science spot because he had "Dr." in his name. Well, I could not get him hired. The union protected him. Jokes on me, he retired after 30 years on the job with full pension and healthcare benefits for life. Who knows how many kids he ruined through his "teachings".
Teachers should be paid very well and held to a very high standard.
In university STEM fields, teach STEM and only STEM. Graduate people with world class skills. Reduce the cost by eliminating that 25% of coursework that no employer cares about. If a student chooses to study non STEM subjects, sure, be my guest, they can pay for them and there are no loan guarantees for the universities (which will lower their cost). Critically, they should not be conditions for graduation.
We can pretend US colleges are about culture all we want. However, the evidence in the real world is that they do a shit job across the board and change is badly needed.