I hate to do this but whenever I interview with Americans, I pass the interviews easily, but whenever there are Indian people involved, I was barely able to receive an offer. Is there any reason for this?

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Absolutely true for me.

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This is so true! I was interviewing with a company that had 4 rounds and all 4 interviewers were Indian who moved to the US from India. I knew I wasn’t getting an offer. It’s the same with a lot of Indian bosses too.

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Have you heard the term “crabs in a barrel”

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Certainly. In my experience it’s pretty much one or the other

High time we desis retrospect on the way we conduct interviews. Most Desis are mostly interested in fault finding and eventually proving the candidate is weak rather than finding the best in a person.
And many Desis do not know how to ask concept based questions. They oft ask very specific questions which probably requires the mugging up strategy they are used to in their academic life back in India. I’m Indian and I hate getting interviewed by another Indian cuz I know how it will end up ugh

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This is so true .. have been through experiences where you are asked syntax / commands instead of concepts or scenario based questions whereas they google it themselves for answers
We should stop conducting interviews with these mindsets and come up with high quality interactions

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SAP practice at Deloitte has a lot of Indians and they all support each other and actively recruit other Indians. Gore call them the B’lore mafia.

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Regionalism at play is it?

I really wish Indians would try to take their biases and their incredible competitiveness away when they interview other Indians.

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I have interview lined up tomorrow with Indian and these comments are making me go crazy .

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Glad it went good. I would be pissed off to read about another mean Desi interview

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I have always had bad experiences with desi interviewers except for 2.

For ex: one guy asked me a specific database related super technical question that was not relevant for the role I was interviewing for either, and when I was upfront saying “I don’t know”, he was like “didn’t they teach you in MS”? 🤦🏻‍♂️.

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It shows whether you were a good student in school days or not. You can’t run away from your past AM1. Doing MS does not give you a free pass buddy

Glad to know I'm not the only person who has experienced this and detests interviewing with Indians.
I currently conduct interviews and have put a lot of work into checking my biases and keeping interviews objective regardless of external factors. We all need to keep working on that.

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I have an indian boss (both of us were born and raised here) and she has been nothing short of amazing both via the interview process and management style.

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Yeah I had 4 technical interviews back to back recently, where all of the interviewers were Indian. They started out talking about my experience, and each of them asked me if I tried using <insert obscure computer science concept> while building the thing I was talking about; when I said no, without giving me a chance to explain, they turned adversarial and said something to the tune of “how could you not try this, this is so basic”.

For the actual coding part of the interview, each one asked me to explain my approach before starting to write code, which is fine. But they had an approach in their heads, and any algorithm I suggested that wasn’t the “right” one was outright rejected. Then each of them said “okay write the code” and we sat around awkwardly till I was finished. At the end they were like “cool, bye”.

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Totally been my experience too. Why stop at interviews, I have seen the same with client. Get a Desi client and the person will make sure to make your life difficult

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Indians are more selective?

.. in the wrong way

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I guess a lot of us are trying to actively reduce / get rid of biases. I have had many discussions with my friends when we talk about biases and how to tackle them. We just need to continue keeping at it and that should make future much better. That being said I recently interviewed with multiple people some of whom were Indian and didn’t find any difference in the process

As a solution may be we should try to write a note to the recruiter saying you were not happy with the way that particular interview was conducted with specific details and explanation. Of course this should happen before they say any final decision on your case, as they could always allege you are sulking cuz your didn’t get selected. Idk someone should start reacting at some point 🥺

I was recently interviewed by D - 3 rounds all desis including partner call. Same case with another big 4. Have offer from both the firms. Even though I have offers from both the firms, I did feel little intimidated by one of the interviewers who just made me feel like I like a "body/resource" and his team needs people because they have more work. Completely put off but can't say all desi interviews are bad

At the interview instead of interviewing you interviewer tries to show his skills to prove others below than him

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