[jjtheblunt]

I took one of those seasonal hire to fire Amazon roles, having thrived in Apple engineering for many years, and not needing to work really at all.

It was laughable that the manager thought he could brainwash me (who used to report one level away from Steve Jobs) into learning how to write code, etc. He was from country X and would protect another wildly inappropriate employee also from country X despite her being a geography graduate in an SWE role, I'd have to teach her, then she'd report to him she taught me what i know.

Unbelievably corrupt org, but amusing i had to admit. it wouldn't be amusing if i had been dependent on working there.

[Muromec]

Country X is India, isn't it?

[pfannkuchen]

Just want to point out that relational nepotism is human nature.

It basically needs to be brainwashed out of people in childhood to avoid having it happen, regardless of where they are from.

There is nothing wrong with relational nepotism in a vacuum, and also nothing wrong with brainwashing it away. Whether or not to brainwash it away is a cultural choice with tradeoffs in both directions.

That being said, IMO having a host culture brainwash it away in its own people while simultaneously welcoming outsiders from cultures without such brainwashing is very, very, very foolish. We either need to let everyone do it, or forcibly make everyone stop doing it. The current situation is ridiculous.

[jjtheblunt]

X was China. The people from India were genuine hard working, in our two pizza team, or whatever they call it.