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> your resume didn't reflect One observation I've made throughout the years of reviewing tech resumes - if I get a resume from a U.S. citizen, I (and anybody e

> your resume didn't reflect One observation I've made throughout the years of reviewing tech resumes - if I get a resume from a U.S. citizen, I (and anybody else) immediately know the difference between MIT/Stanford vs. "The University of Wisconsin" without even researching it. OTOH, I have no idea what the difference between the University of Hyderabad vs. the University of New Delhi, and there's not really a good way for me to tell. Foreign applicants actually have an _advantage_ over U.S. citizens in that the person reviewing their resume will almost certainly bin all of the resumes into the same "ok, has a degree" vs. a potentially unconscious "ah, ok, couldn't get into an ivy league".

jevoten 3y ago
No wonder they can't find workers, if from a nation of 334 million, all but ~16k/year [1] are considered substandard because they couldn't get into an Ivy. Edit: More relevant is comparing Ivy undergrads (64.5k) to all US undergrads (20.3 million) [2], meaning only the top 0.3% make the cut. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League - total number of undergrads (64.5k), divided by 4, assuming a 4-year college course. [2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/235406/undergraduate-enrollment-in-us-universities/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/235406/undergraduate-enr...
- hasty_pudding 3y ago
  Agreed thats insane.
- alephnerd 3y ago
  Our EM was from a CSU. We didn't discriminate based on educational program. But we didn't have the time to train someone in eBPF or OS Internals from scratch over months when there are competitors in Israel or India able to release the same thing in the same time period with a fraction of the cost. For certain specialities of tech, there simply isn't the skill set anymore in the US. OS Internals and Computer Networking is a great example of that.

jevoten 3y ago

No wonder they can't find workers, if from a nation of 334 million, all but ~16k/year [1] are considered substandard because they couldn't get into an Ivy. Edit: More relevant is comparing Ivy undergrads (64.5k) to all US undergrads (20.3 million) [2], meaning only the top 0.3% make the cut. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League - total number of undergrads (64.5k), divided by 4, assuming a 4-year college course. [2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/235406/undergraduate-enrollment-in-us-universities/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/235406/undergraduate-enr...

hasty_pudding 3y ago
Agreed thats insane.
alephnerd 3y ago
Our EM was from a CSU. We didn't discriminate based on educational program. But we didn't have the time to train someone in eBPF or OS Internals from scratch over months when there are competitors in Israel or India able to release the same thing in the same time period with a fraction of the cost. For certain specialities of tech, there simply isn't the skill set anymore in the US. OS Internals and Computer Networking is a great example of that.