{"id":5792,"date":"2013-08-27T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.transversalmedia.eu\/one-quality-thats-a-really-bad-indication-is-a\/"},"modified":"2013-08-27T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T19:17:00","slug":"one-quality-thats-a-really-bad-indication-is-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theresearchpapers.org\/archive\/one-quality-thats-a-really-bad-indication-is-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>One quality that&rsquo;s a really bad indication is a CEO with a strong foreign accent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/valleywag.gawker.com\/major-fwd-us-donor-says-a-strong-foreign-accent-makes-1208418411\">Major FWD.us Donor Says a &ldquo;Strong Foreign Accent&rdquo; Makes You a Bad CEO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Context for the statement above, from the link:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Y Combinator founder Paul Graham is listed as a &ldquo;major contributor&rdquo; to FWD.us, Mark Zuckerberg&rsquo;s powerful lobbying firm whose primary focus has been immigration reform. But just because Graham wants to bring foreign workers to the U.S., doesn&rsquo;t mean he&rsquo;d let them into his fabled Silicon Valley accelerator.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, this immigration lobby funded by some very wealthy corporate elite types has one goal: to bring people of <em>a certain rank<\/em>. If you speak with an accent, you know the kind of positions you should aspire to.<\/p>\n<p>In the comments, someone links to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=6279473\">a prior statement of his<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>That reminds me of an incident earlier in my career when a recruiter ranked candidates on their &lsquo;communication skills&rsquo;, which really was a proxy for whether they were an immigrant or not, in order to try to avoid discrimination laws.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One quality that&rsquo;s a really bad indication is a CEO with a strong foreign accent. 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