alt Hacker NewsIve been directly exposed to the H1B candidate pool. The answer is no. It's 90% candidates with very similar sounding resumes. It's unnerving how templated all the resumes are.
You really have to have solid, engaged recruiting and screening processes in place to filter the wheat from the chaff with H1B's.
I would interview 10 H1B's, and then one domestic candidate, and the domestic candidate would outperform every time.
This is obv anecdotal, but I would not be surprised if this pattern exists across the entire H1B pool.
We do hire some H1B's, and there are some incredibly talented candidates, but only after great expense and time invested in screening and interviewing.
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> I would interview 10 H1B's, and then one domestic candidate
Do you ask people their visa status during interview?
If you do not ask them about visa status, then how do you know they weren't a domestic candidate? Is it a judgement based on race/skin-color/accent?
If you do ask them this question, How do you keep that information from influencing your decision in the interview?
A lot of virtual interviews are rigged in various ways. I did 100s of tech interviews for one company in particular and even had guys who were lip-syncing for someone else who actually spoke English who was looped in to the call off-screen. The level of fraud in interviews has reached all new levels with AI tools now.