The US says Oracle is encouraging Indians to hire other Indians—and it’s killing diversity Indians have quite the presence in tech. Two of the industry’s most powerful executives—Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella—are of Indian origin, as are Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen and Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri. In the startup world, $2 billion grocery-delivery platform Instacart was founded by Indian-born Apoorva Mehta. The trend extends beyond C-suites: Indians were the recipients of the highest number (pdf) of US H-1B employment visas in 2013 and 2014, and in 2015 captured 72% of H-1B visas issued. According to a 2015 National Science Foundation report, Indians account for nearly 1 million of America’s scientists and engineers. Nepotism also runs strong in India. Nearly 85% of the country’s businesses are family-run, and Bollywood is dominated by just a few families. Even job-seekers with impressive resumes have to fall back on personal connections to find work. Those dynamics are now playing out at Oracle, the $160 billion California-based software giant run by Larry Ellison. Earlier this week, the US Department of Labor (DOL) sued (pdf) Oracle for wage violations and hiring bias, alleging that the company displayed “hiring discrimination against qualified White, Hispanic, and African-American applicants in favor of Asian applicants, particularly Asian Indians.” https://qz.com/india/889524/the-us-says-oracle-is-encouraging-indians-to-hire-others-indians-and-its-killing-diversity
Haha so true. More Indians ->more nepotism and brown nosing -> even more Indians
More domestic folks = more privileged, snooty and self centered folks that do not have the courage to actually compete.
If you were competitive in tech wouldn’t you work for a real tech company Fred? lol
Nothing new, truth in all tech industry from past 20+ years
A friend of mine (white) was discriminated at Meta interview by an Indian interviewer. It is everywhere and nothing you can do about it.
How?
What did your friend do to report it ? “I was asked a difficult question that I couldn’t answer, so I’m sure it’s discrimination”.
Whites finally understanding what it means to have bias …
Shhhh! Don’t say that to them. There fragile egos can’t take it. Will probably develop mental health issues and end up blaming immigrants for that as well.
Literally. It’s not a problem until something impacts people personally
Does this means that I, based in Europe, should ramp up my leetcode skills?
As a brown man . I can attest that I'm hated on the most by other brown men than anyone else..
Since when is Nokia big tech?
How did the lawsuit turn out? The article is from 2017.
I see this as opportunity for me in Europe to get to USA more easily. May God bless America
It's an article from 2017. Deliberately sensationalised.