We are a small sized site in Europe of under 200 employees. Less than two years ago a guy from Bangalore arrived for four months upskilling and to help to "improve relations" between our site and our remote counterparts in India where we had scrum teams working on the same product line. At last count we now have twelve Engineers from Bangalore on site for either 4 or 6 month rotations. They will stand at your shoulder until the get whatever answers they are looking for and relations are becoming strained as it has become apparent that's our jobs are heading home to Bangalore with them. Management get on your case when they discover you might not be as forthcoming with knowledge sharing as you could have been. The process must be working though as we have already LR'd a number of our experienced Engineers at the site in October - just in time to make some desk space for more Bangalore guys due to arrive in mid to late December.
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This is Cisco strategy for countries outside the US where H1B's don't exist. They come to "learn" for a few months then take their job with you back to the homeland.
worldwide innovation is dying in technology
the only innovations are in designing websites, big data, analytics
no biggie like google search
Yep, this sounds familiar! Have they started adding Indian dishes to your restaurant specials yet?
troubling but not surprising
Its game over for you
Itsontheweb you made me chuckle, 12 years - got cut last year
@ihlc We don't even have to guess where you are from. Your terrible spelling and grammar make it pretty obvious.
I can guess in which team you are. Man you tought you could screw brahmas, but you failed.
From now eat nan with some french chease :)
The Gooks are behind the wire. Game Over, Man.
I was there 16 years and LRd in Oct 2014. Such a shame what happened to Cisco. Used to be such a great place. Whatever happened to the old phrase "it's on the web?"