Re:Ask HN: How do I understand the results of my job search?
by microtherion on Sunday November 24, 2019 @11:48AM
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> The ethnicity match matters, a interviewer from India will reject you outright if you are a local American.
Not saying this never happens, but I doubt it happens at any kind of company one would WANT to work for.
Could it be a phenomenon that superficially may look similar: discrimination due to different educational backgrounds? Foreign employees at tech companies often have degrees from quite selective colleges — to some extent it's a prerequisite of the visa process. In contrast, local candidates don't always have college degrees, and if they do, they're not always from top tier colleges (e.g. at some point, the university that the most Apple employees graduated from was San Jose State: https://www.businessinsider.com/best-schools-to-get-a-job-at... ).
That's not to say that this is a good hiring criterion. But it's not quite as deranged as hiring on ethnicity.
Not saying this never happens, but I doubt it happens at any kind of company one would WANT to work for.
Could it be a phenomenon that superficially may look similar: discrimination due to different educational backgrounds? Foreign employees at tech companies often have degrees from quite selective colleges — to some extent it's a prerequisite of the visa process. In contrast, local candidates don't always have college degrees, and if they do, they're not always from top tier colleges (e.g. at some point, the university that the most Apple employees graduated from was San Jose State: https://www.businessinsider.com/best-schools-to-get-a-job-at... ).
That's not to say that this is a good hiring criterion. But it's not quite as deranged as hiring on ethnicity.