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siren2026 an hour ago

Cisco especially is absolutely full of H1Bs.

As someone that has worked for them a decade ago, some of their division are >90% Indian. Those are all good engineers and not dunking on them at all but it should be unacceptable to bring over competing workers on a visa while also laying off so many people.

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What percent of laid of employees do you think are H1Bs?

z0mghii 6 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

0

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spike021 23 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

we were acquired and part of our org moved into cisco HQ.

the entire floor were Indian other than our org, and over time our org was filled out with incoming transfers and new hires.

i'll never forget some irony in that one of the engineering leaders brought us together for a mini townhall once and praised our "diversity" but by then the percentage of people in the room were basically the same as you described, including said leader. even our twice a week catered lunches were almost always indian.

just an interesting experience being part of cisco for a couple of years.

shell0x 7 minutes ago | parent [-]

Shocking. I had an interview for an Australian job with JP Morgan recently and even the interviewers were based in India. Super rude, could barely understand him due the strong accent, he couldn’t ask a single intelligent question and it was kinda clear that the org basically just hires other Indians. They always end up talking a lot while doing almost nothing and only hiring their friends and family while Chinese engineers just get stuff done. I’m sure there are exceptions but in my 15 years in tech I can count with two hands how many good Indian engineers I worked with.