Sean Hyland

Just did a video call with a female Indian big tech manager who just read and really enjoyed Vandalising Ireland. She reached out to tell me more about big tech hiring in Ireland - it's grim. She arrived in Ireland in the early 00s, can't believe how reckless FF/G have been with mass immigration - particularly in big tech. Lots of interesting nuggets in there including how FF/G are heavily courting new Indian arrivals as soon as they arrive. She said FF/G will recruit some Indians who in turn set up mass WhatsApp groups to heavily recruit among their communities. They are being organised to be ethnic voting blocs for FF/G. So replacement voting for FF/G once their boomer vote dies off is not a conspiracy theory. It is happening right now on WhatsApp. She is Bengali and high-skilled, married to an Irish man and integration focused having arriving at a time when managers were largely Irish and hired mainly Irish or at least many Europeans. Said was proud to hire on merit and among Irish where possible but that gave away among US multinationals starting in 2009 and going into over-drive in 2012 as young Indian managers began hiring exclusively from back home. She said many younger managers would be uncomfortable managing older Irish workers or non-Indians so they only recruit from home ensuring their authority isn't in question. A big change she sees is that Modi Hindu nationalists with a supremacist mentality and zero interest in integration now dominate Indians coming in. She can't believe how naive FF/G are thinking they can control them politically and is sure that once they have the numbers, they will form their own political blocs either to dominate FF/G or to set up their own interest parties. Other quick points: 1. Indians love Ireland because the US H1B visa is essentially a slave contract that ties them to a company whereas the Irish immigration and work laws are seen as loose acting as a major pull factor. 2. She tried to start a company in the 00s but could get little to no Enterprise Ireland investment for R&D though her product had demand internationally and she could deliver better and cheaper than Google. She would have had a small footprint so able to rely on native workers rather than overseas. She said her experience of working in Ireland for 25 years is that FF/G do not care about indigenous start-ups, only multinationals. 3. She said the workers coming from India are not filling critical skills gaps. Most US big tech are sales and marketing and not advanced skills-driven. She said often Irish workers are overlooked by the US multinationals because the US and India have intensive coaching schools for cracking big tech interviews. Because of demand, the interviews are much more demanding than the actual day-to-day duties of the job. Indians cram for these, Irish do not. So often, native Irish who could do jobs perfectly well are overlooked for Indians who know their way around the interview. It has little to do with a skills gap and jobs that could go to natives instead go to Indians. 4. She sees a backlash coming with poor handling of immigration. She fears for her kid. She understands that when people get angry, nuance goes out the door and that mass immigration is foolish and leads to conflict. Interesting chat.