UTDallas

I went to UTD representing the company to interview some interns candidates. The sheer number of students wanting to talk to us was just overwhelming. Here is the visa status breakdown of the studnets that I talked with:

90% -- without work authorization in the U.S.
10% -- with work authorization, i.e. they are either U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents.

Besides me, there were 2 more managers and 2 more engineers (I think they are young, at least young----er than me)

The reality is that only us ... a.k.a us, Nortel and T.I. are willing to hire F-1's. And the lines are long in all of the three companies. I was very saddened to see their faces of loneliness and filled with anxiety. I was there once, but I got 6 job offers 2 months before I graduated, so don't worry guys.

Many of them finished with their Bachelors in their native countries and came here for better future. Unfortunately the future is not yet decided. We were looking for people with such specialties that no courses can offer. At the end I found a few that had worked with this line of business before and were also pretty good communicators.

My process is very subjective or objective depending on your point of view, I first look at their face, then hear they talk and then look at their resumes. By the time I look at the resumes, I have 2/3s of my criteria scored. I found that despite the complexity of our work, most of students in line should have no problem handling them. But to communicate and work coherently with the rest of the team has always been a challenge. I found some of the new hire with heavy accents that are rather difficult to understand. I found also that if many of the new hires got frustrated by lack of complexity of their first assignment quickly, so I usually warn them right at the spot.

At the end I handed 7 resumes out of 100 people that I talked with to my manager and he will do the final selection. I wish them luck.