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Everyone always says this is a RED FLAG, so I've hesitated to do this myself. But I value my time more than I care about being "flagged" as a dissident against
by BuckRogers 4y ago
Everyone always says this is a RED FLAG, so I've hesitated to do this myself. But I value my time more than I care about being "flagged" as a dissident against company interests. So I do that now with the initial HR interview. The energy put into this can be completely insane as per the GP's experience.
What we need is just a certificate that proves competency, so we can remove all these exams, quizzes and foolishness. Typically, that was a computer science degree, but there wouldn't be enough degree holders to fill all the roles, and wages would skyrocket. So some sort of interview meatgrinder it is I suppose.
As a result of all this, I wouldn't do this career path over again, and won't be recommending it to my kids. Companies will have to reap the rewards for their downward pressure on wages by going to India. They will continue to have to hire there for the next 20 to 100 years. And once the Americans are out of the industry, I think the Indians won't always take things lying down like we do in the US. I suspect they'll unionize and make life hell for these corporations. I hope the Indians become insanely wealthy from it, and US corporations will deserve it.
- cjbgkagh 4y agoIndians are already making life hell for US corporations. That’s one of the reasons they’re looking more to East Europe even though they’re more expensive. I used to work for Microsoft and was prevented from starting bigger projects as they didn’t want to expand the US team, instead wanting to expand their Chinese and Eastern European teams as they were cheaper. Microsoft is a big, inefficient, and amoral company. You could have taken advantage of that and once inside and after a few years of demostrable good work and in making friends you might have been able to score an internal move to the US with the associated pay bump. I’m not saying it’ll be easy but there aren’t many ways to 5x your salary. US kinda sucks right now but money can generally shield you from a lot of that.