I think the "equally qualified" point you're making is highly disingenuous. Qualified doesn't mean you can churn out so many lines of code or have X years of e

I think the "equally qualified" point you're making is highly disingenuous. Qualified doesn't mean you can churn out so many lines of code or have X years of experience at a company or whatever, it means you have right kind of experience. To a big company like Facebook or Google, someone from SV who has a few years in the local industry has more relevant "experience" to the position than someone in London with 10 years at a financial firm.