I’m hiring, two good candidates, one is an Iranian guy who ended up in Afghanistan, and fled to US recently. Pleasant, professional fellow. No knowledge of our field except networking. Other regular White guy has relevant knowledge and experience (and went to the same college I did). Higher-up is really pushing for the Iranian guy, for diversity numbers I’m sure. Heard “but he’s older and more experienced and mature” today. Yea well the other guy/ kid is sharp as fuck and at least knows what we do here.... I said fuckin hire ‘em both then, because explaining our niche industry and terminology to a Farsi speaker will be near impossible
I’m hiring, two good candidates, one is an Iranian guy who ended up in Afghanistan, and fled to US recently. Pleasant, professional fellow. No knowledge of our field except networking. Other regular White guy has relevant knowledge and experience (and went to the same college I did). Higher-up is really pushing for the Iranian guy, for diversity numbers I’m sure. Heard “but he’s older and more experienced and mature” today. Yea well the other guy/ kid is sharp as fuck and at least knows what we do here.... I said fuckin hire ‘em both then, because explaining our niche industry and terminology to a Farsi speaker will be near impossible
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