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by eshvk 13y ago
> Having recently been a student in an American university, I found that in a number of my classes, having a wish to acquire knowledge puts you at a disadvantage. When the majority of your peers are "working in a group" (read:
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by eshvk 13y ago
I haven't; my interviewing of Indian origin candidates (with graduate degrees) in the U.S. has mostly found their ability to think through solutions to be uncorrelated with their undergrad institutions. I doubt if the IITs are so drast
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by eshvk 13y ago
> At the college level there is a huge variation in quality. At one end there's the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) which are world-class and highly competetive research institutions providing a truly top-notch education. LOL
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by eshvk 13y ago
> Look at interviewing. There exists of a database of interview questions that you need to learn to game the interview. That is part of the reason that I have become tired of the tech industry; its job application process is silly. There
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by eshvk 13y ago
> 2. I wish decentralized certification systems became a bigger thing. Personally, I would love to be able to take a definitive test on whether or not I knew Python well enough to spend forty hours a week working in Python. Make it open
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by eshvk 13y ago
I think that is the case. There is no difference between the education system in India 300 years ago and now. Then, you had people memorizing poems about daffodils and daisies in order to get an arts degree. This would then mean that they c
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by eshvk 13y ago
There is a difference between contracting work offshore (which can be done for pennies) to bringing contractors here (there are specific rules; the upshot of which means that they are not as cheap as one might imagine).
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by eshvk 13y ago
I graduated five years ago; my college (among 800) colleges in the southern state of Tamil Nadu was one of the best among the private colleges. This meant that the students in the college used to be so good at rote learning that they used t
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by eshvk 14y ago
> AFAIK the only bad area of SF is the Tenderloin. Uhh..No, Hunter's Point, Bayview, sketchy parts of SoMa, 16th and Mission all come to mind. Recall that OP is moving here with family.
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by eshvk 14y ago
Like the other poster said, work on side projects. Attend interviews. Once someone agrees to sponsor you for an H1B and assuming it gets through by this year, you can start working on October 01.
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by eshvk 14y ago
There is a difference between programming as a creative piece of work and asking to figure out why project A designed by a moron can be glued together with project B which is another clusterfuck. The true answer might be to redesign both pr
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by eshvk 14y ago
Perhaps hotel art is not the right analogy that OP should have used? Here is a better analogy: Think of hiring an artist to paint the walls of a building, where painting them is defined by a rigid instruction set by a PM, we have two week
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by eshvk 14y ago
I didn't actually see it as that. I saw him pointing out that his brother might be motivated from a financial reason to become a programmer. I thought of it a rant on the state of the industry as it exists and why work as a programmer even
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by eshvk 14y ago
First off, to the person who submitted this article, thank you! Next. Sometimes people work in technology are interested in how the world works, about beautiful things, about life and how it interacts with the rest of the world. Yes, someti
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by eshvk 14y ago
I would think this fits from a second amendment frame of mind.
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by eshvk 14y ago
This is sort of off topic so apologies in advance. I am a data scientist who wants to get into designing visualizations on the web. Is there a 101 of where to start? I have not done much on the lines of web development so I don't really kno
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by eshvk 14y ago
> I'm not saying they can't network, anybody can indeed over come that... but some people, and maybe foreigner workers fall into this category, don't care about the popularity contest.. they're just trying to work There is this percepti
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by eshvk 14y ago
Sadly enough, I have seen this sort of stuff happen. I have worked in teams which are overwhelmingly South Asian, there are definite situations where they find it hard to have casual conversations in English with American counterparts. They
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by eshvk 14y ago
> This is contradictory. If immigrants are no better than american workers, and there is no shortage of the latter, why would immigrants be hired through complicated and costly processes in the first place? For most middling to large co
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by eshvk 14y ago
> This is an interesting line of discussion, but it's really orthogonal to one's race/gender/ethnicity/etc. Some people (like|accept|are willing to play) the "networking game" and some people aren't. In either case, it's a simple truth
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by eshvk 14y ago
I got my green card in 2 months from application to interview. On the other hand, my green card was completely unrelated to the H1B visa. I switched from a student visa to the H1B visa for other reasons. I however did the math to see how lo
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by eshvk 14y ago
Agreed. I talked to Philip a few years ago before I applied to grad. school. On the other hand, I had done an undergrad in EE from an average school in India, it made incredible economic sense for me to come to the U.S. to study C.S/Math. I
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by eshvk 14y ago
This is true for my graduate school experience. On the other hand, I have a rather controversial viewpoint: People trained for four years in an excellent undergrad program are way better than people who came from an incompetent undergrad pr
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by eshvk 14y ago
Personally, I think Matloff is rather biased in most of his studies. However, I will say this, I was on an H1B for 5 months or so of my life. I can agree with the perception that one feels like a indentured servant. There is always that wor
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by eshvk 14y ago
> Can we talk about racism? If you're brown or yellow or black... chances are you don't make the company club (as easily) as well, white people... I've seen it with my own eyes... If we are going to be pulling anecdotes from where the s
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by eshvk 14y ago
Your alternative hypothesis is interesting. I am not sure offhand how it would go. On one hand, as an H1B employee, it is not that hard for you to switch jobs and find a person to transfer your visa. Tiny companies might have an issue but t
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by eshvk 14y ago
Sadly enough corporations have the biggest pockets and that means they will push for cheaper indentured servants to flood the markets.
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by eshvk 14y ago
1. Wait times for an Indian/Chinese born person under the EB3 quota are varied but the backlog as it stands now looks like it might hit 25+ years. I am not offhand sure about the 50 years number but have heard of it mentioned earlier. 2. On
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by eshvk 14y ago
seamless, grubhub, eat24. There are lots of such services.
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by eshvk 14y ago
That was heart wrenchingly sad, thank you for doing this. I live in the Haight and I see people shivering in the cold and realize how good my life is. I am never sure whether to help people or not. I have heard contradictory stories of trus

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