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Almost ironic that this article is from Bloomberg. Recently interviewed with them for a software engineer role and the only american I talked to out of 6 people
by jcafe 8y ago
Almost ironic that this article is from Bloomberg. Recently interviewed with them for a software engineer role and the only american I talked to out of 6 people, was the recruiter.
- aatharuv 8y agoHow do you know that? Did you ask everyone their citizenship /immigration status during the interview?
- jcafe 8y agoYou are right. I jumped to conclusions. I just assumed they were h1b's because of their thick/strong accents and unamericanized names.
- ctrlaltdestroy 8y agoSo just being on H1B is bad now?
- jcafe 8y agoNo? I neither said nor implied anything negative about the character of h1b's. Bloomberg writes article about Cisco's bias for hiring h1b's over US workers. I mention my anecdotal experience with Bloomberg where nearly everyone I interacted with was not US born and had thick accents. I thought the irony was funny. Don't twist my words.
- stochastic_monk 8y agoIt could be that the GP was using “American” to represent an issue of race rather than one of citizenship.
- jcafe 8y agoI'm asian-american myself and I was interviewed by other asians who I had trouble understanding despite being brought up around my own family's accent. I wasn't using "american" to represent race or citizenship. I didn't see think of them as american because we clearly did not share anything in common and had trouble communicating with each other. Side note: My grandmother is a US citizen, but she only knows how to say "Hello" and "thank you" in english. Bringing in citizenship feels disingenuous. EDIT: Citizenship comment is regarding this conversation and not the article itself. Sorry if it seemed like an attack.
- stochastic_monk 8y agoThe point of this article is citizenship. I was just trying to understand the point you were making, and thank you for being clear.
- ctrlaltdestroy 8y agoSo the most logical conclusion you arrived from just one observation is that H1B workers are paid less?