We recently hired an Indian guy at my place of work and he's just incredibly bad at his work, to the extent I advocating replacing him a few weeks in because he was making errors that were so basic that it's hard to believe anyone could make (and no one we've hired has come close to making since.) I'm certain his resume was written by someone else. I'm also certain that he doesn't actually comprehend and internalize what he is taught, but learns to do it by rote which means he can't actually do anything if there's the slightest disruption to what he expects. Unfortunately, as he was actually a diversity hire forced on us by HR, I can't imagine we'll be able to fire him. His written English is terrible and that my company lets him send out official correspondence is demoralizing. Once, it took him 24-hours to draft up a simple email to a client! It should take twenty minutes, if that!
A follow-up about this guy. I got a look at his resume. I was wrong in my assumption that it'd been written by someone else, because I had made the assumption that to get hired he would have had to display baseline English competency. His resume is basically word salad. His self summary is about fifty coherent if not particularly specific words before it devolves into an actual, literal list of keywords presented at random, eg. "Computer Skills. Email. Various Programs. Team Player. Contributing to Success." His work history contains no actual indication of his skills, capabilities, or what he actually did in any of his previous roles, just a keyword salad under each job he's had. The few times he tries to indicate a write an actual sentence, he can't maintain a singular tense. It's like Always Sunny: "What's your hobby?" Magnets." "...do you mean, like, collecting magnets, playing with magnets?" "Ghouls."
I am genuinely fucking astounded. I know he was forced on us by HR, but I had assumed there had to be some kind of deception. They got fooled too, surely. Surely, he had to present a resume that displayed at least baseline competency. Surely HR didn't shove in the first guy through the door with an Indian name. But no, this was the resume he submitted, and no matter how competitive this role is, how good this job is to work, how many people who presumably wrote actual fucking resumes that outlined their skills and capabilities in a way that proved they knew both English and how to conduct themselves professionally,
this fucking guy is the guy who got in. Just because HR decided we weren't diverse enough because the literal, actual, single ethnicity we didn't have in our office was Indian. It's fucking absurd. I know if I made the argument that he's not competent for this role, I'd probably lose my job for being racist, especially when I suggested he be replaced during his probation period. I'd get told I've got a vendetta or something when, in a fair world, I'd be able to slap this resume down in front of the CEO and have it be acknowledged that even hiring someone like this is a breach of trust to our clients and fellow coworkers and get the guy fired. Not because I don't like him (he's a fine person), not because he's Indian, but because he can't do his fucking job and his resume is the resume of someone who doesn't even know what one is supposed to look like.
