nepotism

I was under the impression that the beneficiaries of nepotism are resented regardless of their sex.

Once you have nepotism and incompetence at the top, it just flows down naturally and the next thing you know there is widespread politics and infighting between teams.

I think one of the uncomfortable truths that people don't like to talk about in Silicon Valley is how much nepotism and old-boy-network is wrapped up in the clothing of "hiring from top schools".

What, assuming it isn't flat-out corruption or nepotism, motivates someone to hire people like this into important positions they flat-out know nothing about ?

This heuristic is to help people avoid any actual or apparent nepotism while in a relationship and petty jabs afterwards, both of which Horvath ironically faced from people who didn't respect her relationship.

If it weren't for the ol'govt'boys network and for all the nepotism and favoritism, there would be a large opportunity for small startups to undercut these large, wasteful, stupid and taxpayer moneysucking behemoths.

Productivity, according to Mario Draghi, is stagnant, in part because employment in Italy is structured weirdly, with large numbers of closely-held firms with a two-tiered system of full-time full-benefit workers hired through nepotism and armies of temp workers.

If it is your assumption that every firm/organization in India follows nepotism and doesn't value true merit, it would be simply a wrong assumption...If you read my post, you'd clearly see that I don't believe every local firm does this: "...I mean both western companies and local companies like Reliance/Infosys..."My belief, based on my experiences living here, is that this is far more common than in the US, Canada or UK. Admittedly, my experiences are biased - I spend most of my time in bigger cities, and in IT circles.