Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees
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#2Also (18 points, 1 day ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41774300
Re: Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees
#3Seeing this happen at an originally Australian unicorn after the technical co-founder stepped down and new CTO swapped out all of their engineering leadership with Indian hires from Microsoft.
Previously saw it at a lesser degree to older unicorns and places like Oracle, IBM, etc.
Although it’s normalised in the latter ones.
Re: Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees
#4Is anyone really surprised?
At the risk of sounding racist (though I'm Indian, so I guess I get some leeway here), there are likely more biases at play than it seems.
You’ll see South or North Indians from a particular state prefer hiring employees from the same state, who speak the same language, and who look like them. And it doesn’t stop there. Caste discrimination plays a role too, and it even has its own Wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_discrimination_in_the_Un.... See also:
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalit
[2] https://harpercollinsin.medium.com/how-does-anyone-know-what...
This kind of thing is so rampant in India that you hear about it all the time on Reddit.
So yeah, Cognizant has been found guilty against non-Indians but they probably do this to other Indians.
Re: Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees
#5Seeing this happen at an originally Australian unicorn after the technical co-founder stepped down and new CTO swapped out all of their engineering leadership with Indian hires from Microsoft. Previously saw it at a lesser degree to older unicorns and places like Oracle, IBM, etc. Although it’s normalised in the latter ones.
Which explains why its market value is hovering at $160 while its former worth, when it was properly managed, was $3-400. Am I spot on?
The problem is that every Fortune 500’s internal systems are hooked up to it.
Re: Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees
#6Is anyone really surprised? At the risk of sounding racist (though I'm Indian, so I guess I get some leeway here), there are likely more biases at play than it seems. You’ll see South or North Indians from a particular state prefer hiring employees from the same state, who speak the same language, and who look like them. And it doesn’t stop there. Caste discrimination plays a role too, and it even has its own Wiki pa…
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Re: Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees
#7Seeing this happen at an originally Australian unicorn after the technical co-founder stepped down and new CTO swapped out all of their engineering leadership with Indian hires from Microsoft. Previously saw it at a lesser degree to older unicorns and places like Oracle, IBM, etc. Although it’s normalised in the latter ones.
Which explains why its market value is hovering at $160 while its former worth, when it was properly managed, was $3-400. Am I spot on? The problem is that every Fortune 500’s internal systems are hooked up to it.
Atlassian? As a user, I haven't noticed any decline in quality; it's just as painful to use now as it was a decade ago.
Re: Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees
#8Is anyone really surprised? At the risk of sounding racist (though I'm Indian, so I guess I get some leeway here), there are likely more biases at play than it seems. You’ll see South or North Indians from a particular state prefer hiring employees from the same state, who speak the same language, and who look like them. And it doesn’t stop there. Caste discrimination plays a role too, and it even has its own Wiki pa…
The beauty of casteism, and religious discrimination (and less so racism/sexism, though it is certainly possible) is the near fractal nature of the ability to discriminate against someone. After all, there are 3000 ‘main’ castes and 25,000 sub-castes. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste_system_in_India], and with religious discrimination you can always go into sectarianism/what guru to follow.
It’s the discrimination version of the world’s largest choose your own adventure book.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which explains why its market value is hovering at $160 while its former worth, when it was properly managed, was $3-400. Am I spot on? The problem is that every Fortune 500’s internal systems are hooked up to it.
Atlassian? As a user, I haven't noticed any decline in quality; it's just as painful to use now as it was a decade ago.
It’s also probably 5x more expensive than a decade ago. As you said, still painful to use.
Re: Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Atlassian? As a user, I haven't noticed any decline in quality; it's just as painful to use now as it was a decade ago.
It’s also probably 5x more expensive than a decade ago. As you said, still painful to use.
Maybe cheaper labour brings hidden expenses.