Another thing I've run into is fake postings to fulfill h1b requirements. I don't fully understand the requirements but sometimrs companies have to have attempted to fill a role for a year before they can bring in somebody else.
I interviewed with a Company recently that was American based but 90% of management and staff as far as I could tell were Indian. The hr rep on the opening screen call was overly hostile and skeptical. It was clear he hadn't actually read my resume until the meeting and then proceed to try to poke holes in my resume. Made subtlety rude comments throughout the whole thing. It felt like I was being provoked or neged.
I think outside of glass door reviews there is little to no accountability for companies during this process.
I started recording (single party state) all my interviews with monosnap and automatic call recording via ringcentral. I've been thinking of making a blog post with a highlights reel.
I've also run (and even participated in!) in academia.
In academia (at least the country I was in), it's very hard to move up a salary level. There's a lengthy internal, for higher levels even an external, review process with letters of support that have to be written, a panel that meets only every few months, etc. Going from academic level A to B can take six months. It's far faster to have your supervisor create a level B position hypertailored to you and have you apply, for me that took less than half the time. No letters of support, only one interview panel, you can finish all prerequisites in a few weeks.
Plus your supervisor gets to, as it's called in OP's article, 'talent-hoard'; there might be a good CV coming through for a future position.
I think it's a time-wasting game (personally, I'm ready to play that game with all those companies). I think that finally those companies will quit that game before we do. Reason: the number of those companies is much less than the number of people looking for jobs. For example, if I waste 30 mins applying for a job, doing interviews at company X, then that company X must waste at least 15 mins to process my application and conduct an interview.
I suspect I've had my time wasted on some of these as well. Whether it's H1B or some "policy" that requires the company to go through the motions of publicly posting a job and interviewing, when in fact they want to do an internal hire or something.
Why did they even need to make the interview process so hostile? They could have made it perfectly normal and the say they found a better candidate, it's not like the applicant can appeal if he or she felt it had gone well...
For an H1b part of the requirement is that the company has not found any citizens who will take the job - only if they can show that will the visa be issued to their prospective overseas candidate. So, they make the interviews with citizens as unpleasant as possible, so that none of them will take the job. It's a massive waste of everyone's time.
Green Card has no job involved. It's the result of meeting certain conditions.
I've been through the process (married a foreigner), never did they ask anything but biographical details for her and they only cared about my income, not where it came from. (For the form promising that she would not become a public charge.) The whole focus was on whether we really were a couple or it was just a scam to get her a green card.
this is not true. I think green card application can be submitted and approved even before work started (though this probably very rarely happens), employer just need to go through certification process(prove that job requires education and skills) and prove that there is no local competition for the job.
The nerve to post a fake job ad, and interview you someone just to gaslight them. That's actually somewhat funny.
Creative bullying of a whole new level.
I interviewed with a Company recently that was American based but 90% of management and staff as far as I could tell were Indian. The hr rep on the opening screen call was overly hostile and skeptical. It was clear he hadn't actually read my resume until the meeting and then proceed to try to poke holes in my resume. Made subtlety rude comments throughout the whole thing. It felt like I was being provoked or neged.
I think outside of glass door reviews there is little to no accountability for companies during this process.
I started recording (single party state) all my interviews with monosnap and automatic call recording via ringcentral. I've been thinking of making a blog post with a highlights reel.