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Originally Posted by aigel
Totall BS thread. "I hate to paint with a broad brush, but let me do it anyway".
I work in the heart of the Silicon Valley and my company is the united nations with quite a few US born employees as well. We kick ass and we hire whoever is best for the job, doesn't matter what passport, country of origin, skin color, accent. That includes US born engineers as well.
This really is a non issue IMHO. If you attract hot air resumes, fix your recruiting strategy, run an attractive company, pay well.
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Wow - don't get your panties in a bunch. This is about credentials coming out of foreign universities. I see no difference in this discussion and someone saying that the Comp Sci program at XYZ University sucks.
I'm in the heart of Silicon Valley as well. This has nothing to do with race, language or anything else accept our experience with the quality of people with degrees from foreign university. We employ just under 28k people but very few Tech people, relatively speaking, as we are not a tech company. We primarily use job shops when we are looking for people and we typically pay the contract company between $100/hour on the low end to $300/hour. I realize the candidates don't make that but regardless, that's not cheap. These are typically gigs that last for 12 months at a time and sometimes we hire the contractors permanently.
So here's another experience for you. I worked with someone who had a masters in computer engineering from the Philipines. She was supposedly a storage engineer - we hired her from SanDisk. She knew nothing. Even basic IT concepts went right over her head. I was not involved in the interview process for this one.
This has been my experience. I realize that it is limited to my working environment and that is why I asked the question.