I'm got a new gig (Amazon) and majority of my team mates (including my manager/skip and all the way to the GM and VP of the org) are all Indian. I guess this is now common in FAANG. I am not Indian however. I keep hearing pip horror stories and even Indians on blind claiming that you should never work under an Indian manager/org in Amazon. What are my chances of survival for at least 1 or 2 years to get FANG on my resume. My manager seems nice but is blind just majorly stereotyping or will I have a target on my back? It seems weird/racist to be shopping for a team/org based on the ethnicity of the leadership and teammates. Planning on leaving after 1 year or so to a higher quality FANG or unicorn. Will I survive and can I grow in my role as eventually move up the ladder if I want to stay?#tech Honest replies only
it's not racist to hesitate joining a team that's all one race and you're not their race. I love Chinese people despite the racism spewed here on Blind, and I'd be down with a Chinese manager and some Chinese teammates, but if the entire team is Chinatown and I'm the only Little Delhi restaurant in there, I'd be sus about joining.
I feel that. I'm the only non-Japanese person on my team and I know that none of my superiors will ever have any empathy for how I have to speak and listen to a foreign language all day. For them it's like fish breathing water.
tbh try to see where those Indian folks went for undergrad or grad school. If most of them either went to - good schools in U.S. - great schools in India (old IITs, maybe BITS Pilani) youâre probably better off. Pedigree doesnât necessarily guarantee anything but it can at least give you a clue. Uhh, strike that. Join another team lol
Old IITian Manager = Very likely to be arrogant, expect micromanagement
Anything but IIT.. all they do is boast about IIT
Daily reminder amazon is exploiting their labor to depress your wages.
I would avoid that. It's unlikely that an org chain in a US tech corp is composed of just one race without someone's influences/bias/politics. Surely, it could just be a coincidence but I'm sus.
I thought it would be much worse in Cisco? Is it more diverse there? How many chinese, americans etc are tbere in your team..
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You can join. I have been in the industry for many years. One or two people will always be biased towards something. But not an entire org ever. I'm an Indian and I have been fiercely unbiased at any circumstance. Same applies to every crowd. Wish you all the best
Indian managers have tendency to micromanage quite a bit. I assume this would be worse at Amazon. If you donât mind micromanagement and see yourself gaining good experience working at Amazon, I think you should join this team. Get a sense of your managerâs leadership style from connections within Amazon If possible. Any insights from your interview experience? Did your co-workers seemed friendly? Does the team consistently work greater than 50 hours/week? Indian team working under Indian leadership is very likely to overwork during the week and may even work during the weekends. This may be especially true at Amazon with an all Indian team. People tend to overwork in India. Leadership team may have the same expectations from you. Indians usually donât challenge their bosses even if they are wrong. You may feel strong cultural disconnect working in an all Indian team. If your experience interviewing was positive and you felt you would be able to work well with the team, I say go for it. I prefer working in a diverse team. I hate micromanagement.
So all indian is a bit of misconception itâs like saying all âEuropeansâ they obviously have so many differences that it doesnât make any sense to group them- if you can connect with them and work is good go for it.
Wrong.
Digital globe you seem to have some real hate in you.. whatâs the matter?
Indian millennials are fine and are good managers.. it is the older Indian generation that are the micromanagement stories we hear about. I am an Indian and worked under 2 Indian managers who were older (late 50s early 60s). I would NEVER want to work with them again.. on the other hand some of the best managers I have worked with were Indian but younger (millennials).. they were much cooler and didnât tend to micromanage.. something happened in the 60s and 70s that made that generation that way I guess. I am a millennial so I donât know what happened đ
Agree. IIT uncles are extremely arrogant. They also micromanage a lot.
Being serious here is it really that bad? I could probably survive for 1 year right? Otherwise why did they hire me?
Dude too funny