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> (who I find are always rather disinterested with us plebs in "shit-hole" India) It probably doesn't make you feel any better, but I ran into this attitude fr
by brandmeyer 5y ago
> (who I find are always rather disinterested with us plebs in "shit-hole" India)
It probably doesn't make you feel any better, but I ran into this attitude frequently when working from a satellite office in the US.
Teams worked in constant fear of a defrag (read: their jobs got impactful enough to pull the work into MTV), and we regularly referred to ourselves as a "vassal" office. Teams in the vassal would get assigned sustaining engineering work on systems that the MTV folks didn't want to maintain any more, or product development support work for low-end gear. I was told by a PM once, "how can your team contribute if you aren't in MTV?". There were too many examples to count, and enumerating them all would just turn into a grouch-fest. It also certainly isn't everyone on the campus, but incidents happened often enough to be a sore point.
So, yeah. They don't look down on you for being from India. They look down on you because you aren't in MTV.
- neilv 5y agoDo you know whether people based out of the Cambridge/Boston site would be considered second-class citizens today? And if there is a second-class dynamic, would it be in a way that adversely affected the work, directly, or the impact was more about individual treatment? (For example of affecting the work... when collaboration across sites is needed, for the benefit of the org, would there be difficulty getting it to happen, because some were second-class... such as not being taken as seriously, or working with second-class didn't fit well with promotion strategies, etc.)
- wffurr 5y agoI have never particularly felt second class in the Cambridge office. Nor heard anyone complain of being such. There have been a few defrags, but there is a wide array of impactful projects.