I've sadly heard stories about forced deference, though not seemingly as overt as in Cisco, at other tech companies. The most shocking experience is actually a

I've sadly heard stories about forced deference, though not seemingly as overt as in Cisco, at other tech companies. The most shocking experience is actually a personal anecdote. Someone from India from a client once asked my father, who also works in tech in a senior position, why people listen to him given his background. Kind of jarring given that the discrimination in the US tends to be much more structural and sinisterly subtle as opposed to some Indian or South African style outright "one drop rule" thing.