Before you call me a racist. Look at the screenshot of my most recent coding mock session with a Netflix engineer. It’s at the bottom. Had an on-site loop yesterday at another big tech. Two coding rounds. In the first round I had a Chinese SWE interviewer. Mainlander. The problem itself is not hard, just vague. I kept asking clarifying questions, to confirm my assumptions. The interviewer agrees with me. I then propose a solution. Again, the interviewer agrees with me. I spend 15 minutes implementing the solution only to be hit with my “assumptions (exact same ones the interviewer confirmed before that) are incorrect”. I tell the interviewer that they have confirmed these exact assumptions earlier. The interviewer would deflect the question. It happened like 3-4 times throughout the interview, and each time it just kept delaying me from delivering a solution. After working through all of that nonsense, I finally manage to deliver a solution, but with only 1 test case covered. Despite the fact that we still had 10 minutes left, the interviewer wanted to leave that time for the questions I had about the team. I ask some soft questions, and we conclude the interview. Second round went well. Did the first problem. Then delivered a follow up. The round went well in my opinion. The interviewer was chill. I assume I am gonna get rejected. They are just gonna hire their Chinese buddy who has been laid off recently by either Google, Amazon, whatever. Same pattern has been repeated multiple times with most Chinese interviewers in the last 6 months. LC count: 596(283,284,29) #tech #interviews
You are right. I have seen that too.
How do you know he was Chinese? Racist much?
You kidding me? His name is a typical Chinese name. I have checked his LinkedIn. He went to a college in China before he came to the US. He looks CHINESE. Do you need a dna test?
General Motors, How do you know he wasn’t Chinese you fucking racist.
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I have had better experience with Indian interviewers than with Chinese. Don’t @ me. Uber AI/ML org is heavily Chinese dominated. There is a thread on blind about that. Chinese HMs just shoot down all non Chinese candidates, and the Uber HR can do nothing about it.
Wow Uber, it’s easy to divert than answer the OP query, right?
Just be glad you didn’t get in…the damage to your career would’ve been 10x worse by wasting time there. If the interviewers are like that, the team will be too. Still, it sucks that it’s not easy to spot those types of places before investing time into them.
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I think the same, but until US citizens starts making formal complains to an attorney’s office, or a labor office, Asians are going to continue with the hiring mafias.. I think Americans don’t complain and allow this to happen.. In other countries like Italy, Germany or Brazil this would be a complaint to the government and a possible scandal .. Do you really believe that these engineers from are going to be fair with an US citizen? Well Americans love companies doing whatever they want and don’t complain or enforce the law to their corporations, now is affecting them in their own country .. very ironic
I am curious what complain could that be? That there is only one race in the team therefore they must be discriminating other races? If so, 99% of teams in Germany, France, Italy etc are white only, so they are all discriminating by this logic. Doesn’t make much sense.
@dll44 do you really believe that there is no discrimination against US citizens, when in American soil there are teams that are 100% Chinese or Indian, I mean is statistically impossible that during the hiring phase of such a team/org, ethnicity/race was not a criteria.. the hypocrisy in this matter is impressive.. And of course, this doesn’t happen in other countries because the law is applied, you cannot build a 100% Chinese or Indian team in France or Brazil , the government for sure would launch an investigation on the issue…
Me and my friend had similar experiences, two of us combined we had 11 onsites(in last 3-4months) and out of that 8 had chinese interviewer (mostly on system design section), and we failed those 8 interviews. We thought it was mostly due to communication issues ( they had strong accent ) but looks like we are not the only ones. p.s., ones we interviewed were non FAANG/top-tier companies.
We have entire Chinese orgs with people who don’t have a functioning grasp of English.
Specifically Chinese males, in my fairly small sample size with the same experience
No. They are nice and fair compared to Chinese females.
It's probably all confirmation bias, just sharing my small sample size. I've had 1 super negative experience with a Chinese male, and 1 slightly negative one that I think I should have passed but didn't. I've had 3 positive experiences with Chinese female interviewers, and no other negative experiences with non-Chinese interviewers.
What a unique and original opinion.