The circles that a GC and their clients (especially ones willing to DAIN talking to a lowly contractor) inhabit are vastly different than those of a tech worker or someone born outside the US. Tech and H1Bs have a flabbergastingly big influence in the region. Especially if you come from or have wealth.
My experience was being witch-hunted out of big tech in 2015 for being a Trump supporter. I'm not going to go into too much detail but it was made very clear from a very large company that my career had effectively ended from the second it become public knowledge.
The circles that a GC and their clients (especially ones willing to DAIN talking to a lowly contractor) inhabit are vastly different than those of a tech worker or someone born outside the US. Tech and H1Bs have a flabbergastingly big influence in the region. Especially if you come from or have wealth.
My experience was being witch-hunted out of big tech in 2015 for being a Trump supporter. I'm not going to go into too much detail but it was made very clear from a very large company that my career had effectively ended from the second it become public knowledge.