I've worked with offshore a number of times and had to recruit there. Even for mid to junior positions, you'd see most people you interview with senior-lead-architect (over heard a random design discussion at the cafeteria), master-of-the-engineering-quality (wrote disfunctional selenium tests), CTO-confounder-Founding-engineer (unpaid internship for his cousin who had an app idea), expert-senior-executive who managed teams of 60 people (summer job as a goat herder).

I guess that's one way to stand out when you are lost in an ocean of people, working thousands of kilometers away from the white dude exploiting you.