My partner started working for Cisco Systems an year ago. The situation looks too cloudy, shabby, dark and distressing. Not really sure how a company like Cisco Systems is running a business or letting it happen which completely lacks business ethics. Actual story... (In my partner's own words) I work as a fulltime engineer for Cisco Systems. The team and work is not so great, but ok. My direct manager and an account manager of a direct vendor company (desi big body shop called Wipro) are together running this whole show. I understood the whole business model piece by piece in a few months. This account manager and my manager started a small body shop consultancy together with a dummy third person which acts as a second level vendor to Cisco through wipro. They bring in people from India on H1 and a few H4s, desi green card holders (mostly comprised of stay at home wives). Most people are relatives and friends of these two people with fake experience and resumes. They don't allow any non-Indian person. Our manager once put forward a proposal to bring in some contracting roles in the company even when we didn't need any. Same time they recruited some people into this shady dummy consultant company. Our manager and the account manager of direct vendor together put forward this request to wipro and brought those employees into Cisco systems. One of them before leaving confessed everything in detail to me on how this all works. They pay good salary on record to these people employed with multi level consultation. Collect a lot of money from Cisco through direct vendor and also collect commission from employees in Indian rupees in India. There were even instances of sexual favors to keep the jobs. They even tried to make me part of this by offering some payment in India to go easy in interviews. The whole thing sounded disgusting. I am not sure whether to report this or sit silent and just move out whenever possible. Feeling very very sad. π Update: we have decided to complain to HR with all the details. Will update here soon. #employus #h1 #h1b #consulting #recruiting
Isn't this a copypasta? I swear I read this before.
This is our first hand experience. We are sure there will be 100s who experienced similar things. We have all the information in detail. Still think whether to report or not as it is not affecting us directly. Also, my wife's team is small and easy to track who reported.
For sure report this! Silent acknowledgment is complicity. & If they're willing to do this, then what's to say they (or the company) won't pin something on you when they inevitably get caught.
Our only worry is that it looks like a lot of big people from management ladder is involved. Definitely not an unnoticeable scam. Hesitating to report because we might become victim.
Yup, this kind of shitbaggery cannot happen at low levels- definitely there is a big nexus with support from upper levels and maybe even from the local babus. You both should be very careful and make sure your own careers (and lives) are safe first.
The thing I see at Cisco: The head of HR kisses ass to the CEO, and the CEO bathing in it like it is sunshine and rainbow: the company is in harmony.
hmm... so they are right about the sexual favours
βThe situation looks too cloudy, shabby, dark and distressing.β ......well we are trying to become a cloud based company. Looks like our plans are working π€£
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quit. then.
This should be whistleblown to NYtimes, Bloomberg and other investigative reporting entities
I saw similar shit happening at GE where I worked 10 years ago. I heard similar stories from friends at other companies. AFAIK this kinda robbery is going on for a long time. This might be happening in almost all companies with large employee count.
Report this to USCIS and DOL
Document everything, leave and audit trail and then report. If there is retaliation of any form at all, sue the company. Things like these make gathering support for bills like S386 difficult, fight till the end and do not let the perpetuators escape consequences.
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