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In India
by cool_man_bob 1y ago
In India
- georgeburdell 1y agoThe new head is Chinese. There was a screenshot on Blind of his org at Apple and it was well over a hundred nearly exclusively Chinese reports
- VirusNewbie 1y agoEthnically he is Chinese, but he was born here.
- georgeburdell 1y agoShengjia Zhao was not born here.
- johannes1234321 1y agoWherever "here" may be. I assume planet Earth for now. Likely North America. But here are are many people from all over the world ...
- ponector 1y agoHere, on Hacker News.
- rchaud 1y agoDid this screenshot also list everyone's citizenship?
- ls-a 1y agoI heard the same about Satya. Not only does he exclusively hire Indians, but specific Indians too
- spelk 1y agoJust say the quiet part out loud: caste-based discrimination.
- linhns 1y agoIndians hire their relatives and pals, that’s nothing to be surprised of.
- _vqpz 1y ago...is there a nationality or ethnicity that doesn't?
- baobabKoodaa 1y agoUhh yes?
- sunshowers 1y agoI'm Indian -- I think a lot of this comes from the fact that the Brits left such a horrible legal system behind that it's hard to trust it to resolve disputes well. So people default to family/community trust relations. I've been lucky to work in high-quality teams where nepotism hasn't been a concern, but I do understand where it's coming from (bad as it is).
- georgeburdell 1y agoHonestly I find this kind of thinking too narrow. It’s not a Satya problem, nor a Shengjia problem, it’s a systemic problem where people from most regions of the world overtly practice illegal workplace discrimination in the U.S., and the American government at all levels is not equipped to prosecute the malfeasance. Not 1 day ago I completed a systemic bias training module mandated by the State of California to keep current with a professional certification. All of the examples were coded as straight white males doing something bad to another group (“acting cold to people of color”, “preferring not to work with non-native English speakers”, “not promoting women with young children”)
- paxys 1y agoWhere are all these genius American AI scientists that they should hire instead? Pull up a list of the top 1000 most cited AI research papers published in the last decade and look at the authors. You'll find them full of names from China, India, Russia, Eastern Europe, Israel. They are the ones getting jobs. This isn't discrimination, just reality.
- georgeburdell 1y agoOk, sounds like you expect Zhao’s org to have names from India, Russia, Eastern Europe, and Israel then? Where are you disagreeing with me?
- paxys 1y agoWho says it doesn't?