I am writing this detailed information because i had to hire people for my team, and i was very selfish. I spoiled their life, by hiring them and making them work on ancient technologies and hence they cant survive now in real world after they are laid off.
The below facts are applicable only for tech org all the way from CTO below.
- This company is filled with full of people in the higher roles with absolutely no technical knowledge rather the only knowledge they have is how to lick other's a-s. Its filled with useless people, which automatically makes younger generations below them think how the fu-k these people are getting paid so much and survive here.
- If you compare people in other technical organizations, Directors, Sr. Directors and above, write research paper or at least write few blogs or articles related to technology. The same level people here doesn't even how to write an email or internal newsletter properly.
e.g.: There was a newsletter titled GenAI Platform Newsletter - Week of Oct 21. In that its written they don't have enough GPU memory to even host Llama 3.1 70b. This is a 500 billion dollar company who don't even have the capacity to run a model, which a bootstrapped startup can do. Moreover it is said that they have tested deploying a 4-bit version and did not see any "significant practical precision loss". For non tech people, this is equivalent of running the model in your MacBook pro with at least 48 gb RAM, and these guys are running the same capacity in servers. Totally useless people running the show, telling 4-bit quantization doesn't have any practical loss, and they don't have shame to even verify what they have written in the newsletter is right or wrong before sending it to larger audience. BTW, its just a tip of the iceberg.
- There was one stupid GenAI hackathon, organized by people who doesn't even know spelling of GenAI. It was a competition to find who can fool who. It was one of the worst competition ever, where experts are being judged by dummies. Worst of all, they have built a stupid platform called GenAI model service, which acts as a gateway to azure models. It was designed with no basic common sense, that it did not support any libraries, and have to write from scratch everything. A five line RAG code, had to be written with five hundred lines using these stupid APIs. You don't need big architects to design it, just use common sense.
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"Security is Number one". This is utter bullsh-t. You guys still use python3.6 for god sake in 2024. Security is last, and its the least secure company i have even seen. Luckily they did say, you cant go to restroom in office, because its a critical security violation. This company if full of stupid , non sense rules, which if questions they say its security. But most of the time its non sense and the person who is telling you these rules are also stupid only in most cases. Best of all these rules are not documented anywhere, it just you can create rules anytime anywhere and you can force people to follow too.
Example 1: They say to raise security assessment for everything and they tell to you scan your code in a tool called checkmark. They don't even have common sense to check whether the tool supports a particular programming language or framework. I have pushed many code to production where checkmark doesn't even support that framework, and best thing about checkmarx is, it skips the files and tells everything is good and these d-mb a-s guys say its secure and passed :D.
Example 2: These guys don't even check what code you submit for assessment is the same one that is getting deployed. Submit one for assessment, and deploy something else :D. No control to stop it. The whole process is flawed and stupid.
Example 3: These guys have some stupid tool called tech governance which checks for compliance. But again they don't check if you have submitted it for approval before using it. I know many tools which are against licensing used there, simply because they don't check anything.
Example 4: You can literally copy all of the files from you workstation to your personal device without being monitored in multiple different ways, then why the heck you guys want to try and run so many scanners in the laptop which heats up significantly for nothing.
Example 5: These guys have the most stupid 2FA system ever. you simple open a webpage and open another webpage immediately it still asks for 2FA. For god sake how many OTP i need to type. This all stupidity is only for developers. For hackers it easy, the API for all these applications use basic auth like jira, bitbucket, jenkins, etc... are not 2FA secured, meaning 2FA does'nt stop hackers, its just making your life harder.
This is just a tip of iceberg, and i know security issues to the extent where these guys are doing mistakes which will cause them billion dollar law suits, including copying of india domestic transaction data to global data center (I personally know hadoop jobs which runs everyday doing this), unauthorized access to non visa data like chase net, etc ...
- This company is structured to work not globally, rather than just US. Most requests (more than 90%) that you raise in Asknow will go for approval to people in US. People in Singapore and other offices have to wait 24 hours for a round trip communication. Good go for equality.
- This company is at least 10 years literally behind in terms of technology. They have TLT like DAP, Cybersecurity just wasting money, and no innovation can happen in this company because, they will say security issue for everything. I am openly challenging i can prove this company has not cyber security not even equal to a small startup.
- This company tech stack is stupid too. For starters, they use bitbucket for scm, jenkins for CI/CD, sonarqube for quality, jfrog for artifactory. So stupid that, they have mixed and matched things making even a CI/CD setup so hard that you give up before even trying it.
Please be happy you are laid off, if not please save yourself, since as a technology company this is stupidity to the core and you will always be guided mostly by stupid people only. Let me tell you a simple math below, and i have seen it first hand over years in this company.
lets assume VISA hires 100 people and assume 20% are bad. Assume after year 1, in that 80 good people, 40 would have left because this company su-ks, and then VISA tries to fill back the 40 people. now again in that 10 will be bad and 30 will be good. If you continue this geometric progression for few years, you will understand its filled mostly with bad people, and i have seen it in my org personally. The bad people never leave because this company doesn't fire until recently, and they can't get a job at similar paying scale for their talent.
All the best if you are laid off, you just escaped a prison you never knew you were in. Its basically a sinking ship and you life is just saved by god.