Thread regarding Qualcomm Inc. layoffs

I was interviewing someone for a tech job yesterday, and it was really frustrating. I couldn't understand his English.

It was the most infuriating thing. I asked him to write a program to sort a linked list, and to comment his code well. After his code was done, I couldn't understand his written comments written in English. They didn't make sense, and his code didn't work anyway. I then proceeded to ask him some general questions, and it was really hard to make out his sentences. He spoke with either incomplete sentences, or run on sentences, and his thought process was all over the place. His thick, heavy accent I wasn't accustomed to and it was very difficult to follow, because none of his English was spoken clearly, as if his speech was slurred.

As the interview concluded, I was relieved. I said, "well good luck to you", and he replied "Good speakin ta ya all...Come visit us in the South, ye hear me?"

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@FR2HZOZ-1zsi. Lol... Sorry, most people who attend a 2 year vocational DeVry/ITT are NOT qualified to be engineers. There's a reason why they are in a 2 year vocational school and not a 4 year accredited school. I have yet to meet anyone that graduated from a 2 year vocational school function in the capacity as a engineer design software or hardware.

There's a tiny percentage of the population that really are gifted, and they don't need any school. But that's just it. They are a very tiny percentage of the population. There's a lot of the people who think they fit into that tiny percentage But reality is, they are lying to themselves.

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Post ID: @2fgz+FR2HZOZ

Some of you are too hung up on degrees and name brand institutions. Really smart engineers tend to be autodidacts. They can learn what they need to know on their own and apply it.

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Post ID: @1zsi+FR2HZOZ

@FR2HZOZ-1wha. The white men of yesterday are not the same as the white men of today...Somewhere along the the, being technical and good at math and science became "uncool", and what we have now in general is a bunch of people that think they technically superior to their non-white counterparts, but really aren't...Especially the ones that just have a 2 years associates degree from a crap place like Devry/ITT but can't solve basic problems.

But hey, keep tooting that "we're #1" horn.

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Post ID: @1uvb+FR2HZOZ

Funny and true

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Post ID: @1syc+FR2HZOZ

With that Houston Texas accent they launched men to the moon and are flying the ISS today. The accents I hear at the Q today are trying to use sorted linked list to build flush toilets for their motherland.

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Post ID: @1wha+FR2HZOZ

@FR2HZOZ-1uqi. I wouldn't feel too bad for her. She probably works for MediaTek, Huawei, or Spreadtrum. And I'm sure she'll probably doing really well there.

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Post ID: @1umc+FR2HZOZ

All funny aside, this happened to me some 20 years ago. Interviewed this Chinese woman who had a PhD from an american university. Couldn't make out a word she said, but she clearly understood me. Finally just started asking her to write programs on my whiteboard. She aced every single one, one of the best candidates I've ever interviewed. But she got a thumbs down because it turned out none of the 4 of us who interviewed her could understand a word she said.

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Post ID: @1uqi+FR2HZOZ

The only frustrating thing here is that you are an interviewer who asks to write a C program to sort a linked list... directly from the 90's ah?

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Post ID: @ahs+FR2HZOZ

Totally Rad, Man! So did he get the job?

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Post ID: @mqa+FR2HZOZ

I guess it could have been worse. It could have been the typically SoCal interview, where the interviewee keeps saying "dude...dude...dude..dude... like ..like ...like ..like..."

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