Anti-Brahmin sentiment in the United States
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My company hired one dude who was an H-1B as a "data analyst" for our marketing department. First thing the dude did was demand a computer that was twice the specs of anything we normally prep for anyone. He then proceeded to get two of his buddies hired on in similar positions with similar demands. All of them made general nuisances of themselves to the IT department with increasingly demanding requests for software and resources, all while producing somewhere between "jack" and "shit" for their total appreciable output.
They basically got away with doing fuck-all for a couple years while they were supposedly developing a "database" for our marketing execs. All three were eventually shit-canned this past year. We went over their computers with a fine-toothed comb and - surprise, surprise - there wasn't a trace of any sort of database there. Nor was there anything on the SQL server we had stood up for them. The most we found was a handful of spreadsheets that were stashed in the folders they created on the marketing team's file space, containing data that could have been pulled from the sources with a couple quick queries in an afternoon.
They amounted to little more than a drain on the resources of the marketing department and the company as a whole, all while making pests of themselves for the entire time they were employed. And people wonder why the hell there's hate for Indian dudes who get hired in and hold the door open for their buddies.
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Tbh i blame the company more than the h1bs for that mess. How did they not have metrics for success and a team leader they were answerable to
Managerial stupidity and general nepotism in hiring, a la the "good 'ol boy" network. One of the hazards of working in the middle of BFE, even if the company you're working for is on the high end of the spectrum, is people don't get hired for their capability, they get hired because they know someone who knows someone.
My best guess is that the marketing VP caught wind of some buzzword-laden thing relating to Business Intelligence and she had the typical pointy-haired-boss reaction of "we don't have that... WE NEED THAT!", at which point job postings were put out for a data analyst for her department - never mind that we already have a department of developers who do that thing for the company. She picked this dude's name out of the pile, for whatever reason, and he pulled the wool over her eyes for about three years and got two of his buddies free rides for the same time period as well.
Funny enough, right about the same time all three of the supposed "data analysts" got fired, she was also let go, along with three other sub-managers that were under her. I'm guessing that more than just the "data analyst" fuck-up finally caught up with her, but since we never get any info on why people are canned we can only guess at the reason.