It's crazy. We have some job openings. 500 applications each. 95% of them are people who did their undergraduate in India and graduate degree in America. My interviews this week have been 9/10 people with thick accents, terrible answers, not sure what the hell is going on.

Is it HR, is it the leadership directing HR? No idea, but it feels like the company is shooting itself in the foot. Especially a growing company where these jobs are high responsibility and require a lot of initiative. I just don't see it happening with these candidates. Getting a simple point across takes long enough.

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thrawa8387336 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's HR. HR should just be headhunting, handled externally to the company. Legal can handle the rest.

	▲	dh2022 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		At big tech companies HR is also full of Indian employees. Guess which candidates make it out in front of hiring managers or which candidates get interviews? American workers: your goose is cooked!!

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selkin 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Everybody has an accent. If you wish to hire accent-less people, you’d have no one to hire.

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bottlepalm 3 days ago | parent [-]

This is not just an accent, it’s extremely poor speaking and comprehension of English itself. Communication is painfully slow and you have to change the way you talk and your vocabulary as well.

After a week of that, interviewing someone who actually knows English feels like turbo charged discussion. I get through interview questions in half the time, with literally 10x more information communicated.

	▲	selkin a day ago \| parent [-]
		Those are two different things, yet you only considered one of those important enough to highlight in your original message.