I've noticed this at companies I've worked at. Either at the team level, org level, or even the company level. I've observed it from White, Chinese and Indians. I think there's just a human tendency of in group bias.
In my case, I wasn't referring to indians, I meant chinese immigrants. My last few managers have been Indian immigrants and they all had diverse teams. I'm sure it does happen though.
Yeah but we aren’t talking racism here we are talking nationalism. It’s not the same to hire lots of hispanics or to say “wow this team is primarily asian”. Here i’m saying particular hiring managers only want people who were born in their country of origin.
But I dont go onto online forums and blast Hispanics for hiring other hispanics ? I know its a common trait worldwide to hire from your own group but I dont point out "specific" communities because they do it ? Like you just did.
You don't want to be the odd one out on a team since you'll be the first to get laid off. Either find a team with a good mix or stick to your own color.
Apple hasn't laid engineers off since the early 2000s IIRC. It didn't happen in 2021 because they didn't overhire like everyone else did, nor did their execs decide to punish their employees like everyone else did.
As sibling comment explains, this is a natural outcome.
Interviews are a poor proxy for predicting on-the-job performance. The manager is disproportionately affected by poor performance of an employee. So, they try to minimize it. To do that, they try to get signals outside of the traditional interviews. And one such extra signal is reputation. Seeking candidates with high reputation leads to developers with open source contributions getting hired, but also those from the manager’s personal network get hired too.