Posted on 08/26/2016 6:09:28 PM PDT by Lazamataz
I have gotten to the point that if you have an Indian accent on the phone, I simply tell them I am off the market. It seems to be the magic phrase that gets them off the phone the quickest.
Also, if an Indian emails me about Benoit, Wisconsin — or any other location other than Atlanta, GA — I add them them to my Yahoo.mail banned domain filter. I never will be able to see any more emails from their entire domain.
They are the HIV of the recruiting world.
Those of us who saw it start back in the ‘90s in Silicon Valley tried to tell USA CEO’s they were being conned.
We were told we were free to find jobs elsewhere.
Now Indian managers hire ONLY indians and American workers are told by HR that they are no longer needed.
It is going to get worse.
Wait, I thought you had a 50% above average all-Murican job!
At my old company, before I retired, we used to do tech interviews over the phone with candidates in India. The candidates were wizards, they could answer any question. However, when they actually showed up for work, they seemed to have forgotten everything they knew.
So a decree went out that all interviews must be conducted over Skype. The candidate had to hold up his passport with his picture at the beginning of the interview. The problem stopped, but the prices went up.
Not my experience.
If you want quality, you hire Americans (and, curiously, East Europeans).
If you want crap, you hire Indians (with a few notable exeptions. I have seen a few STELLAR Indian IT types in my day. But they are about 5-10%.)
Indian programmers tend to do every project as if it is a class exercise, for a grade.
Whether it actually works in the real-world application for which it is intended is someone else’s problem.
I must look Injun or sound Injun. I got hired to be an Injun-eer.
What’s even worse is that they are often from a firm that isn’t even the main contracting firm with the real company.
Some fat-cat Indian contracting firm (WiPro) is the point of contact with the real client, but WiPro doesn’t want to dirty their hands with, you know, actual people. So they in turn hire BumbleFark Consultants to find and run actual people to fill the positions.
Now you have TWO middlemen between talking directly with the client during the interview process, and TWO middlemen being vampires on your actual pay.
And on top of that most only want to hire their own countrymen, and treat people in general like crap.
Companies all got wise to substituting ‘ringers’. I wondered why at my last few online tech tests, I had to ‘proof’ myself. I know why, now.
BTW: My last test, .NET 4.5, I scored a 96% percentile.
I’m a triple-badass. :)
Man you sound like your company got conned.
Some organizations are like that.
I think you should make $143 per hour, working at home, 30 hours a week.
But I do not have the money to pay you.
Good Luck, Laz.
PRECISELY. This is why, for the most part, American developers are far superior. We innovate.
Yup, and if the two layers ever have a dispute, guess who sees it in the paycheck (you) and guess who gets inconvenienced when it forces you to quit (the client).
And yet some American bosses are just asses.
I’ve had similar but a lot shorter conversations with IRs too.
Lately I’ve been getting message from IRs about a month or two here or there way on the other side of the country from me.
hahahahahahaha! that is exactly how it goes down! ive listened in on many such phone calls between my husband and indian recruiters.
Well, limiting your geographical area can limit one’s prospects too. When I advertised, I never did that (though attempting to indicate a Chicago area preference before finally consenting to go on the road).
I wouldn’t want to lead on some clueless dweeb. I might catch the cluelessness virus myself and then where would I be?
Lots of companies got conned through the 2000’s. Indians would send in ‘ringers’. They got smart around 2010.
Of course you're right.
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