Cisco floats new requisition for an already identified or onboarded candidate and recruiters not even read the applicants resume and send them the rejection.
Mostly the new requisition is to convert red badge H1 to blue, who has been sitting since years with reporting manager rewarded from the the vendor some or other way.
All together orchestrate interviews with 4-5 GC or citizens or scapegoats for compliancy
Sometimes the person who get promoted for a position is part of the interview panel to reject the candidate by fully prepared unwanted and irrellevant questions.
Cisco HR and mgmt is mum and closed their eyes on policies and practices. HR exploits the by all illegal and unethical practices by giving authority to vendor like Rand$$$$. Why do we need HR blue badge when they don't do any work ?
Cisco HR should look into this and do fair for job seekers and actual talent that are good for Cisco.
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Cisco hiring process is a joke. Recruiter hired an unqualified individual onto our team because he was referred by someone at the company. 6 months later that unqualified individual is gone.
Hiring is expensive and for recruiters to throw money away like that, is ridiculous. Let’s try to save that money to prevent unnecessary cuts or layoffs.
Contractors managing perm employees in some teams. 😂 what a joke this company is. Notorious TCS teams training their new hires on the job. Some showing up at work even when their h1 visas expired, because no one cares to check and their team members let them into the building when the badges are temporarily put on block.
It’s a practical training platform for many teams owned by TCS and co. The directors and managers are very well aware and are involved in everything. I wish, USCIS rides sometime and covers them all.
To comply with Cisco policy and law, the hiring manager has to post a req for a certain amount of days. Then screen and interview candidates and viola the candidate that was previously identified by the hiring manager just happens turns out to be the best fit after interviews.
The real fun ones are to read the justification for the need for an H1-b hire and that nobody locally/candidates have these unique skills required for the job.
Outsourcing companies from Asia have taken over many BUs and they along with upper management hire only employees from Asia.
They usually don’t look at the top talent applying on Cisco career website. A lot of nepotism by old cisco employees who are at Cisco for more than two decades.
If you question their hiring policy, you will be on the next LR list.
It is amazing to see how many racist employees still work at CSCO? No training will help this crowd.
I guess the english skills does not matter was long as message is clear about the hiring practices in Cisco. Unless you are one of those thugs and part of the orchestration whining without realizing the interviewees going through
Me worthy immigrant not evil US citizen. Me want job, no get, me get angry.
I would say half of the writing skills displayed here show more reasons csco has went into the toilet. Imagine the software quality by those that can barely get one proper sentence in. Add the endless supply of whining, self absorbed engineers, PMs, and DMs and you end up where we are. csco needs to do a better job hiring for sure and accept the fact that off shoring, DEI, and chucky boy are failures. We had over 2 dozen interviews in 6 months given for a few positions internally. Terrible, terrible interviewees. SIAs didn't know basic networking, vocabulary in some form of broken English, and as much arrogance as you can gather, etc. The reqs went back not long ago. I won't hire mo--ns into csco or the team. Again, csco needs to hire better people. The ones internally aren't getting it done and are not capable it would appear.
Yes, promotions are based on friends and family. Nepotism runs rampant. So buy your boss a nice gift and kiss their butt, you need a raise :-)
All companies have some level of corporate politics. Cisco's just happen to be higher than average.
"Cisco's hiring and promotions are based on "Friends and Family", not based on hard work and talent."
Promotions are also based on leverage. Get some dirt on a decision maker, and you'll see plenty of promotions.
It make sense to converted a red badge to blue since red badge is already working and know the system well but then why to float the req and stage the interview and play with minds of other interviewees whose moral and enthu is at stake.
Behind the red badge majority of the managers have vested interest ($$$)
Though the managers getting commission has reduced drastically but still it is at work :)
whoever that red badge converted is not even aware what has happened in the background. More than 95% are staged interview while a H1 red badge is converted to blue
i converted from red badge - it was nothing like the process you describe.
Hiring is always internal first/rb conversion. Taking a risk on an unknown external is last resort. Same in every company. Any id--t can do most jobs. You don’t want an id--t on your team though. Also, Indians only hire other Indians. Which is why Cisco is a failing company’s
“Friends and Family” is spot on.
Cisco's hiring and promotions are based on "Friends and Family", not based on hard work and talent. No wonder the company is so f-ed up.
Normal with all tech companies. Nothing to see here.
Fair to assume up to 95%+ jobs posted are just to create impressions Cisco is hiring, in reality they aren’t. This keeps Managers show growth, and recruiters get to keep their jobs while busy scheduling interviews and keep sending rejection letters. Often they do this to keep the hiring pipeline active just in case.