Draconian employment conditions and worker treatments
Draconian employment conditions and worker treatments
My coworkers were friendly and great.
I worked at Cisco for 4 years after Cisco purchased my previous company.
Cisco downranked every employee in the purchased company. The starting rank for a new employee was higher than all existing employees. Effectively, I had a new coworker fresh out of college who was a higher rank than I was, even though I was a 4-year veteran.
During that time, I was denied a promotion because of a medical condition. I was sat down and told that I wouldn't get the promotion I was promised because I was hospitalized during the week promotions were handed out.
Stop treating employees like garbage.
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There were two coding rounds and one technical round; overall, a pleasant experience. There was a long time between application submission and when the interviewing process began, but the interviewing process was completed in a few weeks.
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The experience was really good overall. Although certain questions seemed irrelevant, like file system architecture, it was overall a good mix of OS, DBMS, and computer network fundamentals. Thank you for your time.
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Screening phone call, 15-minute introductory conversation. Technical interview consisted of asking basic OOP, 2 LeetCode Easy-Medium questions, and being asked about your project experience. Ghosted and rejected finally after a month.
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United StatesNovember 17, 2025There were two coding rounds and one technical round; overall, a pleasant experience. There was a long time between application submission and when the interviewing process began, but the interviewing process was completed in a few weeks.
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Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaNovember 9, 2025The experience was really good overall. Although certain questions seemed irrelevant, like file system architecture, it was overall a good mix of OS, DBMS, and computer network fundamentals. Thank you for your time.
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United StatesOctober 13, 2025Screening phone call, 15-minute introductory conversation. Technical interview consisted of asking basic OOP, 2 LeetCode Easy-Medium questions, and being asked about your project experience. Ghosted and rejected finally after a month.
