Do you think that would solve anything? I don't recall ever seeing a pajeet on a visa causing some sort of D&I-related trouble. It's almost always white Americans at the forefront of this stuff, with occasional black citizen who caught wind of the easy grift to be made by making the whiteys feel uncomfortable about themselves.
Clearly you've never seen the street right outside of the workplace
Its less likely they are vocal about it. Very likely if they can manage to get involved with hiring interviews, will just simply apply the 'pajeet: hire, any other color: no hire' filter as much as they can get away with, which increases as you notice pajeets multiply like a bacteria at the org.
The pajeets who are gunning for a visa will play along enthusiastically with whatever your corporate culture is, and the ones who aren't will just sit the whole thing out.
Very similar experience here. It's fucked up that they ask those questions as part of the application process. I can't decide if it's better to:
I haven't been explicitly asked about that. Is that a thing at larger companies? Though my name is about as white as it gets. I would not need to check a box.
Okay, here's my hypothesis of what's happening.
Does this imply you're still young? If 35 or over you want to hide that as much as possible.
Yes. No spring chicken but I'm not declining or anything.
It's very doubtful that the companies I'm applying for have HR departments. These are specialized/boutique software firms and any kind of HR department they have is almost surely going to be outsourced. I'm not just tossing out applications, which is why it's been limited to 3 per week. I'm writing polished cover letters targeting their specific product and what I've done related to that + why I am qualified to work on it. No bullshit. I'm confident that I'm qualified for these positions because I've been in these positions.
Do you mean progressive stack ranking?
I'm applying to small(ish) companies. They work with you pretty closely to get into a good fitting role. They just try to hire really qualified people and help mold them into a good fit for the company... at least that was the case. I have a feeling a lot's changed in the past year.
Just find some dumb coded way to imply you're a social or sexual or racial minority, that doesn't actually say you are, and get responses. They're virtue signaling, virtual signal back, and nobody actually cares. You're really an Indian, did you know that? The fact that you don't fuck on the first date means you're demisexual. Whatever.
Believe me, I've considered it. I'd much rather just work outside the US than degrade myself like that. I feel like I should talk to some people who have done such things in case there's 'gotchas'.
First popularized by GE, which is now a pale shadow of itself, while Google uses it for critical to your career promotions, normally it's used to fire what's theoretically your 10% worst employees. Every year. How it helped to gut Microsoft and turn it into a snake pit under Ballmer is something you should be able to easily find more on.
I see. No I can't imagine that's going to be practiced at the companies I'm applying to. They would be dead in no time. Small businesses generally do a pretty thorough job of vetting people from the start and your responsibilities can change day to day depending on what's needed (that's been my entire career up to this point). It's hard to 'rank' employees next to each other because hardly anybody does apples-to-apples the same thing.
I've never worked in a big company, but I have lots of friends that do. I would frankly die doing what they do. It sounds like a mix of daily grind, office politics and low expectations.
H-1B seems unlikely at these type of companies since you don't see a lot of poos working there. Some, but they're not the big 'havens' like MS and Google. Application flood is possible, but everywhere I look says companies are "starved for engineers". That and most of these positions open have been listed for quite some time, so it doesn't seem like they're getting flooded with qualified applicants at least. I assume if they were feeling economic pressure they would just take the positions down.
I assume you mean Cali/NY (and now Texas I'm sorry to say). Unfortunately, most jobs are based there no matter what they are for some ungodly reason. A few of them are not, but it hasn't made a difference. The common factor is that they use external recruiting companies to take applications (or at the very least just fill out forms) and forward them.
When you say "recruiter companies," do you mean HR software vendors like Workday? Or job search sites like Linkedin/Indeed/etc.? Or something else?
Lived and worked in both places. EU, specifically France and Spain are definitely worse, or at least was 10 years ago. The technical culture is generally poor I found but was just my experience in isolation - when's the last time you used a major French website?
