Working with leading Indian companies such as Infosys, Wipro and TCS may make it difficult for techies seeking work in the US. A recent social media post attributed to a recruiter suggested that candidates who had worked for certain companies were considered undesirable for software development roles. The lengthy list of requirements has since gone viral with many expressing outrage over some of the conditions outlined for employment.
The post was shared by a Reddit user earlier this week who claimed that the list had been accidentally shared by a US-based recruiter via email. A moderator from the Reddit community also said that the user had confidentially shared additional evidence which “adds more credibility to the original post”.
The memo outlined a strong preference for graduates from elite universities (such as MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley and CalTech) with concessions being made in special cases for “a couple of other schools if they were 4.0 graduates”. It also called for candidates who had four to 10 years of software development expertise and expertise in Modern JavaScript and other technologies.
The recruiter memo also specified that they were not looking for job hoppers and candidates would ideally have an average of over two years experience in each role. It called for “significant experience at notable start-ups” and noted that their clients would not hire anyone who had exclusively worked at large companies — even if that organisation was Google or Facebook — with bonus points for “founding engineer or founder experience”.
The recruiter email also insisted that there would be “absolutely no visa sponsorships”.
The detailed email said that candidates who had ever worked at companies such as TCS, Tata, Mahindra, Infosys and Wipro were “not the right fit”. The list also included organisations such as Intel, Cisco, HP, Capegemini, Dell and Cognizant.