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Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees
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#362We changed the URL from https://twitter.com/USTechWorkers/status/1843744799607898260 to what looks like the article it points to.
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#363Earlier quoted context omitted.
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#364The worst HR case I ever got involved in was a semi-onshore (Indian) development team who couldn't deal with having a female (Indian) tech lead. She was eminently qualified for the role, but they would attempt to undermine her at every turn, speak over her, hold meetings without her, always going over her head... Caste did not appear to be a factor; it seemed to be good old fashioned sexism.
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Re: Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees
#365My guess would be that a lot of non-Indians at these companies are rejected on the basis of "vibes"; which is slightly different from racism as I explain below, although it probably ends up having the same net effect as overt racism. As an Indian, I've observed that collectivism and subservience towards authority figures are taught as virtues; this obviously makes it quite easy for employers to extract unreasonable d…
When these hiring decisions are based on gut feelings or "vibes," these subjective judgments often reflect an unconscious bias
Re: Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees
#366The waitlist for Indians to get a green card (i.e. second-class citizenship) is 134 years currently. By the end of this decade, it will touch 200. No regular Indian going on a work visa to the US currently has any significant scope of ever being recognized a citizen. Think of that what you will, but the list of incentives an Indian has to bother integrating into American society is rather short.
The absurdly long waiting times
Re: Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees
#367The worst HR case I ever got involved in was a semi-onshore (Indian) development team who couldn't deal with having a female (Indian) tech lead. She was eminently qualified for the role, but they would attempt to undermine her at every turn, speak over her, hold meetings without her, always going over her head... Caste did not appear to be a factor; it seemed to be good old fashioned sexism.
That situation is unfortunately all too familiar and it speaks to deeply ingrained gender biases that exist not only in some Indian cultural contexts but also in many other parts of the world
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#368dang? Where are you? This comment section has gone to the gutter. Please flag this thread. This isn't even that significant of a news - we can come back to this when the court actually hands a ruling.
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Re: Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees
#369Why is the submission a link to a twitter screenshot of a news article? https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/10/07/h-1b-visa-company-sup... is the paywalled source. That said, https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/10/07/h-1b-visa-company-s... seems to be the exact same article (author, timestamp, and all) published by the same group (Bay Area News Group) but without a paywall. (Both siliconvalley.com and mercurynews.com are…
Switched to that latter link now. Thanks!
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Re: Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees
#370Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Remind me to never fly on a plane piloted by an Indian flight crew. (Protip: If you can't stand up to your captain, your plane is going down.) Not sure if you're joking, but this is actually cited as one of the reasons behind one crash. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Express_Flight_134...
Same with South Korean airline crashes: https://www.salon.com/2013/07/10/cnn_asks_if_koreas_hierarch... But who knows if any of this is true or if "hierarchical cultures cause airline crashes" is just pop-sci bs.