Since you are from India, you already know that 40% of the kids in your class are there due to their caste, 20% are there due to the state of their domicile.<p>You gotta get used to this in life. You get very few things due to merit. Mostly it is due to who you are or whom you know.<p>You can try and come to US for masters etc but then again don’t be surprised when a lot of companies will pass you over for needing H1. You will get your H1 eventually but then don’t be surprised when you stay on H1 for life while your roommates from Sri Lanka and Nepal will become green card holders and citizens while you and your company’s lawyers will be answering RFE’s for life.<p>This is life. It is never fair. You gotta take it in stride and try to do the best you can.
I don't know what we can deduced from these anecdotal evidences. But would that be legal for a US company or university (e.g. academic job) to enforce quotas based on gender?<p>BTW, I remember a Facebook (or Google, dont remember) recruiter mentioning gender diversity in their company. He told me that they tried to be as diverse as possible, but that the bar was the same for everybody...
I would like to give you an advice on this matter, don't fight against it at all. Why? Because you are bound to lose . You'll only fill yourself with rage and might be able to help a few individuals, but in long run it's not worth it at all.<p>Yes there is blatant sexism happening in Indian IT industry's Tech Giants and yes many more people are going to get rejected, but theres nothing you can do about it. Those who don't believe this, just ask placement interview experience from a coed university vs a girls only college. See I'm not against women empowerment or existence of girls only college here, but when one party gets grilled on advanced cp problems and the other gets asked about why should we hire you as their sole question (yes the only question they be asked about for a tech position like sdeI) then theres ought to be questions here. There are companies that are just ticking/filling their diversity quotas. I've many many examples(or anecdotal experiences) from me and many other people I know of and I am willing to share then if anyone wants to hear.<p>But we've come to a point where anything said against such rigged systems will get you labelled as women hater or anti_feminist. So what did I do? I caved in.
I asked my girlfriend who got placed in a mass recruiter Company with mere 3.4 lpa to prepare for 1-2 months and give interviews for a big tech company in blore region and guess who gets 15 lpa package? I told her small sister who still was in last year of her girl's only college about diversity hiring and she got placed in another tech giant.<p>Don't fight them, instead go with the flow. At this point no one cares about your hardwork or actually helping under priveleged girls, all they care about is how to fill the diversity quota. Girls in those quota based hiring are already equipped with enough resources to get them jobs in tech giants without any external help, girls in ignou or not having formal degrees but great hands on experiences are severely neglected.<p>Anyways I know there's a big chance your post will be deleted or shadowbanned, most likely mine too so good luck with that. I just hope this messages reaches you and you move on past this problem.
Facts are that many of these companies do not have the 50/50 perfect split of genders and are actively encouraged by some higher-ups to be able to tick that box as it is viewed as something that without could effect the share price.<p>How companies get to that ideal balance is questionable in some cases and the crux is that until the whole gender aspect is taken of the table and we just call each other humans, such things will always play out.<p>If it bothers you - just tick the "other" box in gender based forms, of which that option is provided by such companies.