Cigna's Hyderabad Innovation Hub (HIH), often associated with Evernorth, is a major technology and operations center for The Cigna Group in India. It focuses on driving innovation, digital transformation, and supporting global teams with roles in AI, software development, and analytics. The facility aims to support thousands of employees and serves as a key hub for enhancing global health services.
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I love how people say “highly skilled.” Almost every Indian “developer” I’ve worked with is a coder, not a developer. Due to language and culture gaps, they almost always don’t know how to work with stakeholders and design a full, cohesive and efficient solution. They usually just want a requirements checklist to code to or tickets to work on. There are exceptions to this, especially H1B holders who tend to be the best and brightest and want to come to the USA for fortune and glory and space not available in a country of 1.2 billion. Can’t do that if you are only good at writing code or using AI to generate it for you without knowing how it impacts the solution holistically.
It’s apples and oranges ages when comparing. Like Chinese are great at manufacturing…but it is cheap because it is usually cr-p compared to products the US uses to make decades ago.
You get what you pay for and when Cigna isn’t even paying competitive
rates in Hyderabad, we are cooked.
Welcome to the enshittification stage of Cigna.
Noelle Eder, is that you? Your pet project DESTROYED American careers. Btw, congrats on selling your stock at its highest before it tanked.
@be 60% or more of India’s 250 billion IT sector is dependent on the US. If we pull that rug out from under them, that whole sector collapses. There’s way more to this puzzle than we know or are privileged to.
@c4 Cigna started moving IT jobs to India in 2024. I know because my department was part of it. They’ve been moving non-IT jobs to India way before that.
Sure, let's be honest about HIH, the India employee program being used to replace US employees with India employees who are cheaper labor by 1/3 and don't have the knowledge of their US counterparts.
@OP No we don't need to know.
DP cousin is now in the posts. Just great. More propaganda from India.
@dq you’re a fu--ing id--t
For the id--ts complaining about Trump.... we would not even have a country any longer if the clown circus of Harris & Walz were in office. I think Trump is ki-ling it across the board.... keep your skill sets up to date and stop complaining.
There were plenty of those skillsets here at that time, but they were high talent/SMEs and expensive and the innovators. Many of them were American minority workers training their H1B replacements during the crisis.
@cg You are not wrong. Factory/manufacturing work was offshored during the Clintons too. And lucky for us who ran against Trump on 2016. And then Obama (Larry Summers was on his Admin team) completely betrayed American minority tech workers in the 2008 crisis too to allow for H1B. It's all a mess.
This time around it's not Trump running the show, it's Peter Thiel and Stephen Miller. And you can now say JD Vance (a former Obama era Democrat/grifter) = Thiel.
@c2 Seriously. I’m embarrassed to say I was fooled by his b.s. the first time around and voted for him in 2016. The guy is a scam artist and lies about everything. He claims he’s brought manufacturing jobs back but the U.S. actually lost 100,000 net manufacturing jobs in just the first year of his second term. We are so sc--w*d as a country. There will be hardly any good jobs left.
I did it fir the bobs and vagine.
- DC
I thought Trump was stopping offshoring? What happened?
As with everything, HIH will last until they price themselves out of existence. Then Cigna and other first world corporations will pull the rug out and move to the next third world country for cheap labor. The problem is, however, that America has, over the last 25 years, trained a very large workforce that are capable of competing against them in every sector. India is a large, educated workforce that has really done very little globally to compete against first world corporations. In the next 25 years, if they are smart, they will start producing their own goods and services for domestic consumption and then compete in foreign markets. You did this to us corporate America!!
Thank you so you agree
@a2 cool offshoring to help love connections.
Well, this is an odd post at the wrong time.
It’s 10:19 a.m. here now soihave about2 hour until lunch
I work at HIH in Hyderabad. I have a crush on the girl that sits 2;rows behind me. She issoooo hot. I was thinking of offering to sharing my lunch at lunch break to break ice; what do you recommend
@OP Basically, if your role is overlapping with what HIH focuses on, you should be prepared to be laid off soon!