This board seems to be 90% open racism. Yes the CEO is Indian, but there are Indian CEOs everywhere in tech. Whats more troubling though is that the vitriol seems to extend to average Indian workers at T-Mobile as well. Having had worked for the company for 25 years, and having to deal with what was then EIT a lot, I always thought they were nice capable workers, usually with young families they brought. When did this vitriol and racism start?
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Interesting to see which posts stay and which the "moderators" delete. Make a post about Indians stealing your work and it gets deleted.
I may be in my own bubble but I don’t see that at all. I see people from India being a preferred hire. I try not to differentiate but I have been impressed with those I have worked with. I do know things are volatile though and we have stood up a huge branch in India that will shift American jobs to India. This is already happening and will continue.
This has nothing to do with nationality—Indian or American. When leadership lacks the ability to steer the organization, even the most talented workforce cannot make up for it.
Indians were an integral part of T-Mobile long before the AT&T–T-Mobile merger discussions. The problems we see today did not start with the workforce; they started with leadership decisions.
Many of these issues began with the Sprint merger. Sprint leadership mismanaged Sprint, and the same leadership culture was carried over into T-Mobile. What failed there is now repeating itself here.
Leadership protects its own compensation while cutting jobs and avoiding accountability. You can lay off as many people as you want, but without capable, accountable leadership at the top, the organization will continue to decline.
I don’t like the smell of sh-t.
Just look at life by the Ganges river if you want to know why Indians are subhuman trash.
You don't belong in the new America.
No more lazy entitled wfh Caucasian women who think they minorities
It’s not the hate. Jobs are moving out of america to India, what? You gonna love Indians?
@bc "These people have taken advantage of the generosity of Americans, and are extremely racist and nepotistic themselves. They pretend like they are the smartest people in the room, and steal and take credit for work they didn’t do." No no no. That's just humans with any percieved amount of power or control. It has nothing to do with what country they are from.
Let's be clear the hate comes from the fact that we have an administration that has made it too expensive to hire talent. Why pay 100k per hire when you can just move all the jobs to India and pay less for all the talent? Elections and the policies of those elected have consequences.
don't understand the Indian hate (I'm not Indian). Don't hate the player, hate the game. Don't hate the Indians, hate T-Mobile!
We're all here trying to work hard and provide for ourselves/families, T-Mobile is the one that's gaming the system.
There’s some fetishizing there too if you look right ;)
you are thinking you are in asia. the names of the cities in the USA are spanish and english. No one cares about the ind ians. Most people just have no interest or desire. Walk into the street outside the company and you will see it obvious. Go you the europe states and you will see they don't care either. This is a western world in the western hemisphere. No HR or leader will be able to change the culture. Wake up cutie.
@bc and you can take your sh---y a-s “ceo” with you.
@an
Say it louder for the one's in the back.
It comes from us not wanting you in our country.
They should get free lunch and stock options like all the other employees. They also deserve more spots on PEAK.
These are American companies that enjoy all of the laws and protections of doing business in the United States, as well as access to the best markets in the world.
In the case of T-Mobile, it is the largest telecommunications company in the United States by market cap, and 100% (!) of its customer base is in the United States. This is critical infrastructure for the country, and they also receive government contracts and provide services to the U.S. Government, which has national security implications.
This should mean high quality and relatively stable jobs FOR U.S. CITIZENS. Yet, these jobs are undercut and given away to foreign nationals (including the CEO) from one specific country, that is involved in a wage arbitrage scheme to sc--w over the workers of this country, and to benefit the people of their own.
Are there no telecommunications companies in India??
These people have taken advantage of the generosity of Americans, and are extremely racist and nepotistic themselves. They pretend like they are the smartest people in the room, and steal and take credit for work they didn’t do.
Furthermore, they are ungrateful! On the last AMA with that traitor, Jeff Simon, you had Indians in Hyderabad now asking if they were going to get stock options and free lunches. This from a U.S. company!
You have worn out your welcome and can go home.
who else is here to read comments and troll....
Agree, I’m noticing a lot of conflating Srini’s race or the location of non-US centers with something larger.
Bellevue is a white minority now, so it’s not super surprising to have more non-white individuals on campus. If you have issues with Srini, it’s about Srini. If people have issues with jobs moving outside the US, then say that. But they shouldn’t put a target on a group of people (who also read this forum and are worried about layoffs) just cause of a racial pattern the attribute to malicious intent, or because they’re mad and it’s their first instinct. It detracts from their actual concerns and critiques, which will have more value when they speak them plainly, rather than veil them in racist language.
We should focus on the real issues rather than slinging sht at each other, or mitigate the friendly fire at the very least.
Agree OP that the hate for Indian/South Asian folks needs to stop here. Also in zero defense of Srini who’s to say HE made the call, it could be the board which has plenty of white people soooooo….
There are many hardworking, talented Indians who work at T-Mobile who should be valued. But CEO Srini is a total dud.
This company doesn’t respect black employees I know that much.
If you can't see Indians getting preferential promotion over legacy white and black employees you are probably part of the problem. Culture is not printed or declared; it is whispered amongst the working class.
IT just spun up a whole shop over there. Of course that's where it's all going. Offshore it and self-service are jonny crier's answers to the same question telecoms have been facing for decades which is shrinking margin in communications. I am excited for the new round starting which focuses on directors and senior directors which are the true poison of the company. It's unfair to say indians are poison of the company they aren't the company at all more like rodents chewing at the food crumbs on the executive shoes.
People are flying to Hyderabad to interview and train for the mass hiring while people are being layed off state side. The workforce is being outsourced. I genuinely don't even keep track of the CEO since John left.