The Russians Are Coming
I&#x27;m sorry if this verges on being incoherent, it&#x27;s late where I am, and I&#x27;m very tired. I just created an account after lurking a very long time and frankly I&#x27;m tired of the fact that my perspective isn&#x27;t really shared here.<p>I&#x27;m a black American trying to get into tech and I&#x27;ve sent out hundreds of resumes and applications and work on all sorts of projects learning all sorts of skills. I have had a few interviews, whether they be with teams or recruiters and I feel I get rejected for the most ridiculous or petty reasons. I was referred to a job that required html and javascript knowledge and was given a test where I demonstrated my proficiency, was seemingly approved by the first three people I interviewed and their manager still vetoed me just after looking at me on the zoom call. She literally said, to my face, while smiling, &quot;yeah no,&quot; without even looking at the work I did for the test. I have more but I don&#x27;t want to veer to far off onto a rant, but if you&#x27;d like to hear about my interaction&#x2F;conversation with a recruiter last Friday, I&#x27;ll gladly share it in a response.<p>Maybe you don&#x27;t think this is discrimination, and I&#x27;m just gonna have to agree to disagree, and I have met a number of wonderful russian people myself, but I know my experience as a black person getting into tech isn&#x27;t exclusive (I&#x27;ve read other&#x27;s experiences on twitter, yeah I know that site is looked down here, but bear with me) to just me, and I&#x27;m asking that before you just consider blindly consider one group of people from abroad to be the beneficiaries of your &quot;goodwill,&quot; can you give black americans who have worked their butts off to try and get into tech a chance too?