Fired because VPN stopped working
Fired because VPN stopped working
The offices are awesome and well located.
I never felt welcomed at American Airlines as I come from a different background and ethnicity. There seems to be a lot of ethnic bias, and I feel like some ethnicities are not welcomed there. As a Software Engineer contractor, I was also treated as inferior.
American Airlines doesn’t have much diversity when it comes to ethnicity. I felt like I wasn’t liked because I was different and thought differently. I only got to meet one other person who shared my ethnicity, and that person mentioned to me that despite working at American Airlines for a long time, they never received a promotion. There was obvious ethnic bias, and the company is not inclusive. The environment at American Airlines felt more like an exclusive one where only certain people from certain backgrounds could survive and thrive there.
Mysteriously, my VPN, proxy, computer, and Wi-Fi stopped working soon after I started working there. After a few weeks of working there, my laptop started having issues with the VPN, proxy, and American Airlines network, and I had to pay the consequences. I have evidence to believe that my manager removed access from my VPN to impair me from working and prevent me from completing current tasks. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that there is some corruption and collusion going on internally in American Airlines to kick out people that “don’t belong” due to their background.
My computer’s IP address and proxy were flagged and blocked from connecting to AA's network. So, at AA Dallas headquarters, where we didn’t need to use VPN for work, my computer couldn’t connect to the Wi-Fi either. The VPN was necessary to run the code and do almost anything work-related. My work computer had most of the internet restricted, and most searches were blocked. AA cut off my access to the VPN and internet for multiple months, and everyone said that they didn't know what it was. Nobody helped me, so I fell behind.
The first weeks of work, everything worked alright. Mysteriously, things stopped working from one day to another.
Be more inclusive and treat everybody equally.
Accept different cultures.
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Dallas, Texas, United StatesMay 30, 2025The interviewers were very nice and focused more on how to work together to solve a problem than on how easily you could solve it. Studying on LeetCode or HackerRank will help you ace the interview, as that's all the coding questions were, such as c
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Dallas, Texas, United StatesFebruary 21, 2025Starting from the self-introduction, they probed into the Spring frameworks I mentioned and asked specific questions, including many "why" questions to check if I truly understood the concepts.
Software Engineer
Dallas, Texas, United StatesJanuary 6, 2025Overall, a pretty chill process. The first interview was a basic, easy LeetCode question. The second interview was an in-person interview where I was flown out and asked to complete some questions and talk to some seniors at the company.
