I'm a data analyst currently, have 3 yrs of experience from a consulting firm in India. Came to US for masters and currently working as an analyst at Walmart. The thing that bothers me is that after 3yrs and masters I'm treated as an entry level and while people with similar US experience are managers and above. Two questions : 1.Why is my India experience discounted or rather ignored? 2.How can I overcome this and move up the ladder faster? I'm not whinning and looking for genuine help from experienced folks here
If you are able to perform at a senior level in terms of output and quality you should move up fast. Most firms in us will discount experience from india unless it was a well known company that you worked for (msft, goog, csco, adobe etc)
I'm trying my best and honestly my is been appreciated a lot because I'm more than an entry level. I spoke to my manager already and he said the usual way of getting a promotion can take 2-4 yrs
If Indian experience didn’t count, we would not have all the H1B folks... Get any job you can get and leetcode from there.
That's true for H1B not but fortunately do not feel the same for job leveling. Yes I should start LC ☺
LC for data analyst roles? I wish LC also catered to data science specific coding.
I think it’s partially a function of how you communicated/negotiated what you’re looking for. Similar things happened to people I know.
But I never got interview call for more than an entry level. There was no room for negotiation
That’s unfortunate :( But your work will speak for itself, and you’ll get there!
Hey I had three years of experience in one of the fangs, but ended up being entry level when I moved to my current company as well. I don't think three years is a lot to be honest. It is within reasonable range of entry level. For moving up faster, just make sure u do a good job all the time and consistently perform at the next level.
Why did you accept entry level after 3 yrs? Higher TC? (I want to understand your priorities, not questioning ur abilities)
Priority is the project, very interesting work I am doing, got published in a year.
1) Because many folks from India faked their experiences so several companies now discount that. Not saying you faked it. 2) Other than building your career in the states, there's not much you can do.
Indian education system and quality of consulting company work in India is truly dismal. Your experience in India isn't relevant to US work culture partly because of hiring practices in India and partly because of mass hiring activities. You worked as a consultant? Okay how were you hired? How much did you know before you came on board for the job? My coworkers say in India companies go in and recruit people as 'human resource' and in masses and then train them up for a job. If I am a hiring manager, unless you filed patents, worked at a venture funded startup with growth mindset, or worked at an Indian location of Google/Facebook/Apple etc, I have good reason to believe that you went through a lot of training before you truly became a data analyst. That training is same as someone who had 2 internships and went to a univ in US.
I'm not denying but my work not just taking orders from clients. My resume says it clearly. Are you saying people here think that Indian work experience is useless and probably anyone can do that without a degree?
Indian resumes are more often then not full of lies and misrepresentation, nobody believes a word of what's on them.
Musigma ain't a consulting firm.
Damn you caught me. Lol
Yup, Mu Sigma is simply not in the same league Wipro, Cognizant etc. It is specialized data consulting and you guys command a lot more respect.
On the bright side, Indian work experience counts in PERM/GC. If you’re good you’ll move up quickly.
I’m black but what I’ve often wondered is how racist the industry is against Indian engineers. For example, why are almost all QA engineers Indian? Why are there so few white folks in that role? As a frontend developer I see VERY few Indian frontend developers, especially in senior positions. But to be honest, I gotta say that often when I need to learn something online and the resource happens to have been created by an instructor/author from India, I see them using old versions of Windows, coding in notepad++ while producing not great code. Now these folks are people making videos on YouTube for example, so I know they are economically and perhaps culturally from a very different background than an engineer from India working at Google. But even so, I notice Indian engineers being treated subpar.
Indian engineers are brought in as cheap labor. They get to do the low end jobs others don’t want or work in Indian-dominated legacy companies for (relatively) low pay.
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Let's be real here. The major consulting firms back in India have a trashy reputation. Not to mention the visa abuse. The work that is given to new hires is menial and doesn't really require any degree. That's why it isn't considered as "work experience". You now have a great opportunity. Instead of dwelling in the past, use it as motivation to do great work !
Thanks for the reply but the thing that bothers me now is after 5 yrs in the industry I'm still an analyst
It's not your fault. Let's make that very clear. It's pretty evident that you're a hustler and a super capable person. It's just that you got baited into joining these consulting firms (which US employers don't really consider as significant work experience). As I said, you're in a position that millions of Indians would want to be. Grab this opportunity and run with it. Don't look back. Who knows, in the next 5 years you'll probably be a CVP. We believe in you OP. Good luck !