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I get what you're saying, but the "fake job search" never yields any qualified hits, I haven't had to "fake reject" anyone so far. I'm being totally honest with
by fredfoobar 6y ago
I get what you're saying, but the "fake job search" never yields any qualified hits, I haven't had to "fake reject" anyone so far. I'm being totally honest with you.
I'm sure I could wait a year and finally find an American born candidate who will pass the interview, but that would mean my projects and timelines are hosed.
We've tried to go the intern route and hire American undergrads as interns and then convert them to full time by offering them, the conversion rate isn't as good as you think, and they have a LOT of options in the valley.
Let me assure you, the biggest problem faced by any company, startup or otherwise is talent, it's extremely hard to find good talent, We could tweak our tech-stacks to be most open to a wide range of people and bring the bar down. But the bottleneck is still talent.
- throwaway987897 6y agoThe goal of the fake job search is to avoid qualified hits, not to get them. If, in the fake search, we had found an American candidate with similar qualifications who would accept a similar salary it would have been worse than useless. Honestly reporting that would have sunk our employee's green card application, and we had no ability to hire a new person at all. The problem in a real search is finding talent; the problem in a fake search is avoiding accidentally finding talent while trying to "demonstrate" its absence to satisfy government regulations.
- fredfoobar 6y agoThat must have been super unlucky then. I don't think the likelihood of that happening is very high though. If there were so many candidates who get snagged in the "fake job search", we'd not have to do the "real search" for so long anyway.
- runawaybottle 6y agoWell thanks for depressing me for the rest of the day.