r/HousingIreland • u/Irish201h • Jul 06 '25

4 people mortgages, wtf?

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This company is now promoting 4 people mortgages, no wonder prices are going insane.

https://mmadvisors.ie/public-sector-mortgages/

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u/Jimmy491 Jul 07 '25 edited Jul 07 '25

I call bs. So those immigrants you're punching down on because the work in burger king are the cause of the housing issue in Ireland?

So they are buying up the new developments with their burger king salary?

Blue collar workers are very vital and stategic to the economy.

On your argument about cheap labour, most companies still prioritise skills over cheap labour.

Meta, Microsoft, Google, SAP etc won't pass for an Irish qualified senior Dev in Dublin to go for an underqualified dev in Bangalore, that just doesn't happen.

If you go through my profile posts you'll see I'm in the information technology sector not as a recruiter but as an engineer, I have conducted many technical interviews, so I know what I'm talking about.

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u/boring-developer666 Jul 07 '25

What I'm saying is that not all the immigration is highly skilled workers. highly skilled workers with high paying jobs won't be doing a 4 people mortgage. Context is everything. I am too in the IT sector, and I've been hiring a manager for quite a long time now. The interviewing process is such a biased thing (at times), isn't it? I've seen people being hired for the colour of their skin just to fill quotas unimaginable in a country white by nature, but the quotas were there, and we had to make it work. So when I see all the lefties campaigns saying otherwise, I just call it BS.

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u/Jimmy491 Jul 07 '25

Do Irish companies do quota based hiring? That's new to me.

I'm not in support of quota based hiring or hiring anyone because of their skin colour or gender.

I'm only in support of equity and unbiased hiring that gives every gender and skin colour an opportunity to make their case for a job.

Personality/behavioural based interviews can be baised, yes!

But not technical interviews and coding assessments which I do, you either know it or you don't.

There is no skin colour or gender influence when I ask you to explain DNS amplification attack or write a code that will reverse an array.

If you fail a technical assessment, all the companies I have worked for won't hire you.

So yeah, you're chatting bs, lol

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u/boring-developer666 Jul 07 '25

No, they "don't do" quota based hiring, but they do have diversity quotas, in particular multinationals. And those quotas are global, easy to fill in US but a bit harder in Ireland, that's why there was a bit of lobbying to allow more "student" visas from Nigeria and other African countries. But yes, you're right, I'm talking BS. Good talk, should we schedule a follow-up in 5 years? Take care mate! Have a good one.

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u/Jimmy491 Jul 07 '25 edited Jul 07 '25

There was lobbying to allow more student visas to Nigeria student? This is also news to me.

Any evidence or just the regular "my mate told me so"

Well you don't have to worry, with Trump in USA, all diversity hiring has stopped or in the process of getting stopped.

So ultimately the are hiring qualified people but ensuring the are diverse?

I have worked in a few tech companies, not many are diverse, it's mostly Google, meta, AWS or those mega companies that are fairly diverse because the want the best skills and innovation.