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Cuts, Silence, And Lacking Diversity

Software Engineer
Current Employee
Has worked at Visa for 2 years
November 27, 2015
Foster City, California
1.0
Doesn't RecommendNegative OutlookDoesn't Approve of CEO
Pros

Employees that care about the direction of the company (at least the ones that are actually doing the work).

Cons

Management/Board could care less about the direction of the company as long as it makes them money. Paycuts to management/board? Of course not. They just got new stock options in November (public information) while the rest of the actual working employees get a pension cut and zero stocks.

Notice the theme in the most recent reviews?

SILENCE. Silence from executive management in addressing any issues whatsoever.

CUTS. The company is doing extremely well. What should we cut first? Pensions.

DIVERSITY. Again, look at all the comments. How do you go from hiring Indian (male) management all the way up to executive vice president, and now not notice that:

  • All contracting companies are suddenly Indian?
  • All technology consultants are suddenly Indian companies?
  • Open an office in India and freeze hiring in the US?
  • All management direct reports under said executive is now male, Indian?

At the highest levels, we have white male leadership. At the layers below it, we have male Indian leadership. We have a "diversity officer" who seems to be absent from most discussions and seems to only be for PR purposes. There is NO diversity in thought here.

Advice to Management

Make yourself diverse. Stop kidding around with our lives and put people that want to get things done in the right positions. Get the dollar signs out of your eyes and do what you were put in place to do: running the company in the right way.

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