Thread regarding Fidelity National Information Services Inc. layoffs

This is how it is...

FIS Indian employees getting onto interview panels and rejecting qualified American candidates in favor of preferred candidates.
Interview questions and confidential hiring information being passed to friends or associates before interviews.
Interviewers receiving commissions or kickbacks when preferred candidates are hired, including payments connected to staffing vendors.
Once hired, favored employees receiving better assignments, visibility and promotion opportunities.
American workers being given unrealistic deadlines, criticized, marginalized and eventually pressured to resign.

Their words for what happens inside the company:
“This is called systemic pressure.”

Then they describe a second type of “syndicate.”
According to the source, managers and their subordinates become partners in grocery stores and restaurants, particularly around Atlanta, Jacksonville and Brown Deer. They rotate responsibilities so one of them is always at the business, creating another source of income outside their corporate jobs.

We’re constantly told FIS Indian is about hiring the “best and brightest” and the “most qualified.”

But what if the American candidate never had a fair shot in the first place?


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Post ID: @OP+1m1cb2082

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It’s simple. FIS is a low-cost company and you can find cheap people there who will agree to anything just to move or stay in the US. It’s their dream and they’ll accept any pay, no matter how low.

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Post ID: @10c+1m1cb2082

I've seen some cut and dry favoritism / race-nepotism with the dolphin cuts, and lots before that too. Hard to retain my liberal color-blind ideals these days when it seems like you're the only one following them.

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Post ID: @kj+1m1cb2082

All this - and the thousands who were rebadged to Cognizant. The jury found Cognizant unlawfully fired a person in 2016 for complaining that the company favored immigrant workers from India through H-1B visa practices - he won millions.
Another lawsuit Cognizant lost : Palmer v. Cognizant (Discriminatory Disparate Impact)What happened: A California federal court ruled that Cognizant's internal visa readiness and utilization policies had an unlawful discriminatory impact.The issue: The court found that these practices disproportionately harmed non-South Asian and non-Indian employees by cutting their jobs from the bench at a much higher rate.

Also - Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation (“Cognizant”) and certain of its executives (collectively, “Defendants”) violated Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by making materially false and misleading statements about Cognizant’s business and financial results, including concerning certain payments relating to Company-owned facilities in India.

Lead Plaintiffs, on behalf of themselves and the Settlement Class, have settled the Action with Defendants for $95,000,000 in cash (“Settlement”)
Also - federal government investigation of H1-B Visa fraud by cognizant
None of these are fiction - look them up. Cognizant is not a good place for non Indian workers, yet that is where so many ended up and did not have much of a choice.

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Post ID: @j5+1m1cb2082

@gb - Couldn't agree more. It's wild how one person can single-handedly wreck an entire team's experience and yet here we all are, stuck riding out the same storm.

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Post ID: @gc+1m1cb2082

@am - I’ve worked under a manager who play favorites and it’s toxic. My boss showers a chosen few with praise, bonuses, incentives and visibility even when they’re just doing their basic job, while the rest are ignored. There’s no transparency, no fairness, just a one‑man show built on image‑building.

He even calls people “my employees” as if he owns the company. That arrogance says it all. When I had a white boss, things were clear, professional, and transparent. Here, I’m stuck with someone insecure, controlling and obsessed with power. If he doesn't like someone he create negativity about them. Most of the teams understand his politics and quietly calls him a “spoiler,” but nobody dares say it out loud. And that’s how people like him keep climbing, while the culture gets more toxic every day.

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Post ID: @gb+1m1cb2082

You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

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Post ID: @f2+1m1cb2082

As an Indian, I honestly believe there’s no worse thing than an Indian boss. They treat us like rubbish and while they might hire us, it’s often because they believe it’s easier to control an Indian person.

Not all Indian bosses are like this; there are many fair and helpful people. However, executives are so power-hungry that they’ll do anything to advance their careers, even if it means throwing people under the bus and walking over them later.

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Post ID: @am+1m1cb2082

lol, you were not qualified enough so you were no hired. Stop creating a Netflix show story about it. Kickbacks, commissions blah blah.. right.

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Post ID: @af+1m1cb2082

Finally, someone is talking about this. Spot on. The same happened in our products group. As soon as the Indian boss was announced, the number of Indians became just crazy, and the quality was really bad. There are exceptions, but they are really rare. One by one, managers and people get replaced. Not just people in America, but the same with people in the UK, Belgium, Australia or wherever the culture of bringing opinions is present. There is only one place for yes people.

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