There are three comments to this post, and they are all along the lines of, "well of course they lied that's their job, you should know better."
Firstly, this isn't about me -- I was smart; I took a different option.
But this is about my industry, and so my sword must flash from its scabbard.
I know you're sick to death of the P-word, but do think of the privilege that would be required in order to take responsibility for the decision, i.e. in order for the decision to be made non-coercively.
Thinking it through, you'd need:
1. Local knowledge about the way the tech industry works (which I do, so guess which job I didn't take after looking over their figures)
2. Access to plausible alternatives
3. (most importantly) confidence in oneself and one's perceptions.
I've spent the past half-decade of my good fortune trying to help friends enter the industry from other careers (urban planning etc.) and it's this implicit-never-spoken-about shit that is the biggest barrier-to-entry.
You can either have diversity in your industry or you can have life-or-death decision things that 'everybody just knows,' except for the newcomers. Pick one.
P.S. also the stakes are much higher if you're offered a work visa and a relocation package to a country where you can only legally work for a single employer. And that employer, if they fsck off -- well; that's how you get people alone and stuck, strangers in a strange land, running out of money and hope.
Firstly, this isn't about me -- I was smart; I took a different option.
But this is about my industry, and so my sword must flash from its scabbard.
I know you're sick to death of the P-word, but do think of the privilege that would be required in order to take responsibility for the decision, i.e. in order for the decision to be made non-coercively.
Thinking it through, you'd need:
1. Local knowledge about the way the tech industry works (which I do, so guess which job I didn't take after looking over their figures)
2. Access to plausible alternatives
3. (most importantly) confidence in oneself and one's perceptions.
I've spent the past half-decade of my good fortune trying to help friends enter the industry from other careers (urban planning etc.) and it's this implicit-never-spoken-about shit that is the biggest barrier-to-entry.
You can either have diversity in your industry or you can have life-or-death decision things that 'everybody just knows,' except for the newcomers. Pick one.
P.S. also the stakes are much higher if you're offered a work visa and a relocation package to a country where you can only legally work for a single employer. And that employer, if they fsck off -- well; that's how you get people alone and stuck, strangers in a strange land, running out of money and hope.