<story><title>Seattle could become the first city to ban caste discrimination</title><url>https://www.knkx.org/social-justice/2023-02-20/seattle-could-become-the-first-city-to-ban-caste-discrimination</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sitkack</author><text>I have worked in the Seattle tech scene since 1997 and sex and caste discrimination is rampant in the Indian tech community. I only know this 2nd and third hand as I am the stereotypical cis male white guy.&lt;p&gt;The biggest one to me is the sex discrimination across dev and qa, with a women making up the vast majority of qa even though they graduated with the same degrees as the men from the same Indian universities.&lt;p&gt;Even Indian men that I respected on multiple levels, when they get on an interview with a women they are overly harsh in ways they were not with men.  So much so that I stopped interviewing all together. I reported to HR and they of course didn&amp;#x27;t know how to handle it. It really makes me sad.&lt;p&gt;I try to talk to my Indian colleagues about this and they stay extremely tight lipped about this for a multitude of reasons. I applaud this action. This shit has to stop, leave it in India, America is better than this.&lt;p&gt;Discrimination is fractal. All interview should be truly double-blind.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cancer.gov&amp;#x2F;publications&amp;#x2F;dictionaries&amp;#x2F;cancer-terms&amp;#x2F;def&amp;#x2F;double-blind-study&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cancer.gov&amp;#x2F;publications&amp;#x2F;dictionaries&amp;#x2F;cancer-term...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>trieste92</author><text>&amp;gt; I try to talk to my Indian colleagues about this and they stay extremely tight lipped about this for a multitude of reasons.&lt;p&gt;I notice this too. It&amp;#x27;s like someone brings up caste discrimination online (somewhere like teamblind) and a bunch of people come out of nowhere and say &amp;quot;that isn&amp;#x27;t real&amp;quot;. Isn&amp;#x27;t very convincing to say the least</text></comment>
<story><title>Seattle could become the first city to ban caste discrimination</title><url>https://www.knkx.org/social-justice/2023-02-20/seattle-could-become-the-first-city-to-ban-caste-discrimination</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sitkack</author><text>I have worked in the Seattle tech scene since 1997 and sex and caste discrimination is rampant in the Indian tech community. I only know this 2nd and third hand as I am the stereotypical cis male white guy.&lt;p&gt;The biggest one to me is the sex discrimination across dev and qa, with a women making up the vast majority of qa even though they graduated with the same degrees as the men from the same Indian universities.&lt;p&gt;Even Indian men that I respected on multiple levels, when they get on an interview with a women they are overly harsh in ways they were not with men.  So much so that I stopped interviewing all together. I reported to HR and they of course didn&amp;#x27;t know how to handle it. It really makes me sad.&lt;p&gt;I try to talk to my Indian colleagues about this and they stay extremely tight lipped about this for a multitude of reasons. I applaud this action. This shit has to stop, leave it in India, America is better than this.&lt;p&gt;Discrimination is fractal. All interview should be truly double-blind.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cancer.gov&amp;#x2F;publications&amp;#x2F;dictionaries&amp;#x2F;cancer-terms&amp;#x2F;def&amp;#x2F;double-blind-study&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cancer.gov&amp;#x2F;publications&amp;#x2F;dictionaries&amp;#x2F;cancer-term...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brailsafe</author><text>Now that you mention it, on my non-American fully remote team, while we have no Indian men as engineers, I believe all our QAs are Indian women.</text></comment>