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Ive been directly exposed to the H1B candidate pool. The answer is no. It's 90% candidates with very similar sounding resumes. It's unnerving how templated all

Ive been directly exposed to the H1B candidate pool. The answer is no. It's 90% candidates with very similar sounding resumes. It's unnerving how templated all the resumes are. You really have to have solid, engaged recruiting and screening processes in place to filter the wheat from the chaff with H1B's. I would interview 10 H1B's, and then one domestic candidate, and the domestic candidate would outperform every time. This is obv anecdotal, but I would not be surprised if this pattern exists across the entire H1B pool. We do hire some H1B's, and there are some incredibly talented candidates, but only after great expense and time invested in screening and interviewing.

ToxicMegacolon 1y ago
> I would interview 10 H1B's, and then one domestic candidate Do you ask people their visa status during interview? If you do not ask them about visa status, then how do you know they weren't a domestic candidate? Is it a judgement based on race/skin-color/accent? If you do ask them this question, How do you keep that information from influencing your decision in the interview?
- morgannewman 1y ago
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- lisbbb 1y ago
  I never asked about visa status during interviews as that was purely an HR issue or something the hiring manager needed to deal with. My job was to assess people purely on technical ability and to a lesser degree, ability to communicate effectively (in English). We never really even bothered with cultural fit--if the person seemed decent, we gave good feedback on them. There was so much fraud to wade through, however. I got so that I could spot those "templated" resumes very quickly. It's kind of a tell when someone has worked say, five different 6-month contracts in five geographically dispersed US cities! That would be ridiculously expensive to keep bopping around the US like that! If their skillset and work was any good, they would either get renewed or find another gig in the same locale.
lisbbb 1y ago
A lot of virtual interviews are rigged in various ways. I did 100s of tech interviews for one company in particular and even had guys who were lip-syncing for someone else who actually spoke English who was looped in to the call off-screen. The level of fraud in interviews has reached all new levels with AI tools now.

ToxicMegacolon 1y ago

> I would interview 10 H1B's, and then one domestic candidate Do you ask people their visa status during interview? If you do not ask them about visa status, then how do you know they weren't a domestic candidate? Is it a judgement based on race/skin-color/accent? If you do ask them this question, How do you keep that information from influencing your decision in the interview?

morgannewman 1y ago
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lisbbb 1y ago
I never asked about visa status during interviews as that was purely an HR issue or something the hiring manager needed to deal with. My job was to assess people purely on technical ability and to a lesser degree, ability to communicate effectively (in English). We never really even bothered with cultural fit--if the person seemed decent, we gave good feedback on them. There was so much fraud to wade through, however. I got so that I could spot those "templated" resumes very quickly. It's kind of a tell when someone has worked say, five different 6-month contracts in five geographically dispersed US cities! That would be ridiculously expensive to keep bopping around the US like that! If their skillset and work was any good, they would either get renewed or find another gig in the same locale.

lisbbb 1y ago

A lot of virtual interviews are rigged in various ways. I did 100s of tech interviews for one company in particular and even had guys who were lip-syncing for someone else who actually spoke English who was looped in to the call off-screen. The level of fraud in interviews has reached all new levels with AI tools now.