Let me share a first-time experience with the fabled jeetcode.
>get sent a data model to review, made by an Indian co-worker
>it's taking a long time to load and wonder why
>check the code itself
>there's a 73,509-line IN statement where it's selecting all rows in a certain dataset that are reported by a certain account number and each row he's selecting is its own row in the statement
>call the co-worker in and ask him why he just didn't select for the account
>he shrugs and says he "wanted to make sure the statement was 100% accurate"
>change it to a 22-character LIKE statement
>get the exact same results but now it takes 5 seconds to run instead of 10 minutes
On another note, saw this documentary today:
An interesting point here: Indians saw other Indians on instagram saying they lived in the US and owned a Mustang GT (new price is ~$42,000 iirc) so they think if they were to move to the US they'd be able to afford one. As a result, jeet and his brother pay $45,000 a piece to spend 6 months travelling to Ethiopia, then to Brazil, then trek north through the Darien Gap (where they are kidnapped and tortured by cartels into paying a ransom of $1,500 a head to pass) before finally making it to the US, where one of the brothers gets deported within a month by Trump. The other lives on below-minimum wage in California working odd-jobs while dodging ICE. If they could raise $90,000 plus another $3,000 for the ransom and whatever other expenses they had on the trip (which they posted to their insta), then I presume they would have been able to afford a Mustang GT without having to leave India (not to mention risking your life for a fucking car).
They also interview a second Indian who failed to get in three times and upon getting in a fourth time was deported on a military flight for a false asylum claim who claims he's going to try again (a federal felony). Some interesting asides are how many people they interview try to justify it as the US
needing people who can't speak English to do work to
stay competitive because "nobody wants to work these jobs" isn't working anymore.
Another aside I'd like to give is that they travelled through Ethiopia, which is known to have yellow fever. As someone who has also transited through Ethiopia to get to another destination, I can tell you that you are legally required in virtually every first world country and many third ones as well to have been vaccinated for yellow fever (and if not have a mandatory qurantine period) if you so much as
transit through a yellow fever area as it's a very dangerous disease that nobody wants spreading to their country after they spent so much time and money eradicating it (it was one of the first insect-borne viruses identified in the US). As the vaccine costs $370 here and is not covered by public health insurance, I doubt these men have it either and these illegal immigrants could be potentially spreading it into the US and Mexico (it's been eradicated in north america everywhere north of the Panama Canal).