With all flashy racial movements and Amendments, US still somehow makes it to the bottom 10 countries for racial equality, even worse than a totalitarian country. There is nothing wrong with US racial system. The survey is wrong. You are doing great. Keep heading to that direction.
> They have a point based system which lets decently talented immigrants in
I keep hearing about Indian tech talents but I haven't met one in real life yet. The ones I know are very good at nepotism. They usually exaggerate each other's works and belittle non-Indians' works. At my workplace, many even take credits of others. I understand that they are doing all of these to reinforce the rumor of Indian tech talents and to pressure managers to hire more Indians. However, I must admit that I haven't met one with actual technical skills and decent characters. IMO, many are political talents.
Be warned! There is no correlation between being a great software engineer and having a rewarding career in the workplace. You need other skills to survive the politics in hiring and promoting as well[0].
All talk no action. That's how horrible technical interviews exist to this day. We should all turn away from such discussion since it just wastes hours of people's life for no results as we soon realize that 'interviewers keep asking these questions because they can'
> So, to start with, shut down the rules against discussing salaries or university costs with coworkers and other students, respectively.
No, this will expose evidences of institutional and systemic racism and question people about the country name. Should it be United State or Segregated State?
Thank you for sharing your story. Happened to me several times too. Once I received a rejection letter with 200 other candidates in CC list. We had a good conversation with each others.
[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2021-04-...