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Cisco is a hell hole that attracts a particular type of employee without talent who indulge in this type of discrimination blatantly. Narrow-minded Indians (I'm

by sg47 5y ago

Cisco is a hell hole that attracts a particular type of employee without talent who indulge in this type of discrimination blatantly. Narrow-minded Indians (I'm speaking as an Indian myself) who bring their Indian attitudes abroad. These types of Indians put others to shame. This is another side effect of doling out H1Bs and L1s without consideration for assimilation. I'm not sure if this is endemic to Indians though. I had a North Vietnamese classmate who used to complain that South Vietnamese students did not speak properly with them or respect them. Fundamentally boils down to growing up as human beings.

Frazo 5y ago
> Cisco is a hell hole that attracts a particular type of employee without talent who indulge in this type of discrimination blatantly. I work for Cisco. Best place to work for, best salary in the market, the smartest people I've ever come across. Best work life balance. I'm not Indian though, so maybe I'm not aware of all the details.
- sg47 5y ago
  Lol @ best salary in the market and best place to work for
kamaal 5y ago
Telecommunications industry seems to be particularly toxic, I hear there are in Santa Clara, and in Bangalore too, buildings full of 'Automation engineers'. There are like thousands and thousands of people whose whole job is to plugin in some values in a Jenkins job and pull out values, and mail it to the next person up the chain. And yes most of these people are on H1B, and many times are even given GC's in EB1 by cooking up legal documentation. In a set up where there is such low/non-existent value going around and nothing much to show for, I'd expect toxic politics for every little thing. There are quite a few places like this in this industry, and it can be very hard to achieve anything of value both personally and professionally at such places. And its all about identity politics, and cartel behaviour at the end.

by sg47 5y ago

Frazo 5y ago

> Cisco is a hell hole that attracts a particular type of employee without talent who indulge in this type of discrimination blatantly. I work for Cisco. Best place to work for, best salary in the market, the smartest people I've ever come across. Best work life balance. I'm not Indian though, so maybe I'm not aware of all the details.

sg47 5y ago
Lol @ best salary in the market and best place to work for

kamaal 5y ago

Telecommunications industry seems to be particularly toxic, I hear there are in Santa Clara, and in Bangalore too, buildings full of 'Automation engineers'. There are like thousands and thousands of people whose whole job is to plugin in some values in a Jenkins job and pull out values, and mail it to the next person up the chain. And yes most of these people are on H1B, and many times are even given GC's in EB1 by cooking up legal documentation. In a set up where there is such low/non-existent value going around and nothing much to show for, I'd expect toxic politics for every little thing. There are quite a few places like this in this industry, and it can be very hard to achieve anything of value both personally and professionally at such places. And its all about identity politics, and cartel behaviour at the end.