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Yes it's stereotyping and yes it's bad and all that. But I think my experiences are roughly on par with yours. I've seen some absolutely stellar Indian hires t
by elblanco 17y ago
Yes it's stereotyping and yes it's bad and all that. But I think my experiences are roughly on par with yours.
I've seen some absolutely stellar Indian hires though, but they really tended to come from the better, more established schools. A colleague of mine has been staffing her department heavily with Indian candidates not because the asking salary is cheaper, but because that just so happens to be where most of the candidates are coming from.
>instead they repeat a set of jargon IT words they read somewhere in a book
I've noticed the IT-jargon diarrhea as a pervasive problem on Indian resumes. Of the couple hundred or so resumes I've reviewed in the last six months, only the Indian ones had a section under each previous employer labeled "environment" followed by a list of every hot IT technology in the last 20 years. Sometimes to comical effect, "wow you worked in a place that used Cobol, Java Server Pages, Perl, Python, Ruby, AND Quantum Computing? And you list that you are an expert in the Waterfall Methodology AND RAD?".
I admire our immigrant population for coming to seek a better life and typically for their awesome work ethic. But sometimes the standard Resume Writing 101 course that seems to be taught at every Indian IT trade school does a disservice to them.