Visa

Great view of the lake from work.

Awful place for technologists and an awesome place for middle-aged, South Asian, non-technical, dumb managers who consider napping after lunch.

The place is full of middle-level managers who have no idea about technology and are mere people managers for taking credit, getting paid, and enjoying themselves at the cost of the hard work of other people.

I found some managers to be not even technical, rather bachelors in arts and chemistry who are expert in using MS Suite as the most sophisticated tool. Many managers cannot even create a PowerPoint slide. Some use Notepad to refer to keywords. Many don't show up at meetings after lunch and prefer napping at home than driving to work.

Technical managers or directors think programming is a tool for developers, as email is a tool for themselves. Some think coding is scary and has to be done by lowlife immigrants who are starving for a job.

If VISA conducted a basic proctored exam for managers and directors, I would say a 100% failure rate in solving technical problems will be evident. Visa is a finance company, but never a technology company. You will never find any director from Ivy League schools; rather, the most preferred species are South Asian – especially Indian, Pakistani, and some Russians dominating the mid-management. Delegating work and being offline is the learning curve for directors. Converting contractors to full-time is another lovable job they do perfectly.

Please refrain from working under any South Asian boss at VISA. Not only will they screw your career, but they will also mislead you to be unskilled. They will loathe you, your work, and aggressively kill your dreams as soon as possible.

Diversity terrorism is what they excel at, and 'dumb' is the least descriptive word found to describe them. Some directors are so dumb they think Java is an island in Indonesia. These clown monkeys have never ever written a "Hello World" program in their life. Well, this is Silicon Valley where dumb gets better and better gets bankrupt.

So please go ahead and join a startup with less salary, less benefits, but your learning curve will sharpen, and you will feel the respect. Come here, get a pay, and get offended every day by dumb people. And yes, if you are thinking to come here so that your immigration problem will be solved by joining this big company, then do join and slave for another 15 years for the corporate clowns mastering in filling Excel sheets.

Please get rid of middle management if you can. At least make developers managers instead of all those dumb, non-technical people.