A US techie shared the experience of giving interviews for Meta and Amazon and getting rejected at both, as there were majorly Indians on the interview board. Calling it H-1B racism, the techie wrote on Teamblind: “So before any H1Bs say that Americans are racist, please exam yourself and your own country first. If the best jobs were in India, and millions of Americans were flocking over to take the best Indian jobs, while also favoring Americans over Indians, India would also ban foreign workers.”The rant came amid the ongoing H-1B controversy as teh Donald Trump administration hiked the H-1B visa fee to $100,000. The companies which apply to hire H-1Bs from foreign countries will have to pay this yearly fee from now on. This expense will discourage the companies from hiring from China and India, though the existing employees will not be affected. But many experts are interpreting the move as an unofficial ban on H-1B.
A US techie’s post on Teamblind slamming H-1B Indians went viral.
In the post, the techie said there were three Indians and two Chinese on the Meta interview board and five Indians and one white person, but from non-tech. “I performed great on the interviews, but still got rejected. It’s hard not to think I was discriminated against in favor of someone who looks like the team I was hired on. I understand that an Indian interviewing with only white interviewers would feel the same… but it’s not their country, so there’s no right to complain,” the person wrote. Blaming Indians for creating a different culture, the person said most Indians feel entitled to work in the US, though the US has been gracious about the H-1B program. “They think they are smarter than Americans who do the same job. They favor their own kind in hiring. They micromanage and turn every task into an ‘urgent issue’,”
‘Bias is in your head’
The post triggered mixed reactions as one Amazon employee told the techie that every applicant claims to have a great interview when they are rejected. “The interviewers do not know your citizenship. You do not know their citizenship. They could be brown americans. And this country also belongs to brown (and all colors) americans who feel discriminated and labelled for no reason. The bias is in your head, not theirs. And that’s keeping you from succeeding. If you have known Indians, they hate each other. Infact they would prefer to hire a white skin in their team and post friendship with whites on their social media. Colonial mindset,” one wrote.