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Everything substantive addressed here can be handled by proper and ruthless application of anti-nepotism and anti-discrimination policies, cracking down hard on
by JulianMorrison 7y ago
Everything substantive addressed here can be handled by proper and ruthless application of anti-nepotism and anti-discrimination policies, cracking down hard on abusive management styles, plus such tools as "blinding" the names and addresses on CVs.
This seems like a severe memetic hazard for ill considered racist responses.
- sn41 7y agoIt's not that easy. I can easily find out which school, which school board and college you graduated from. If you are not a graduate of an IIT, I will conclude that you are subhuman. (By I, I mean a general recruiter.) None of this needs names or addresses.
- JulianMorrison 7y agoThen that's just more information to "blind", isn't it?
- sn41 7y agoSure, but it is hard to make a decision without knowing educational background. That level of blinding is not really feasible. Unfortunately many Bay Area recruitments happen based on IIT/Tsinghua snobbery, not the caste system as others mention. Many Westerners do not know about this. For the most part, this does not affect quality since they are the top Asian schools, and their graduates are very competent. There's a different level of nepotism promoted by insecure Indian managers - this is to attract a bevy of cheap and deliberately chosen incompetent engineers who are reliant on the manager for their sustenance and continuing immigration status. This is where the trope of the incompetent Indian s/w engineer comes from. A good example can be seen in the behaviour of Sunny Balwani from Theranos - you can read about it in "Bad Blood".