So lately there's been a huge number of new employments in the Bangalore campus for the Engineering side.
Looks like TAC/support centers around the world will see layoffs sooner than expected.
Your thoughts?
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I worked at Riverbed for almost 6 years. When I left that was right before the April 2015 bloodbath. To my experience, after their founder-member CTO Steve McCanne left (and also resigned from board) post acquisition of Opnet at twice its market value, Riverbed became a place for exactly what the op here has accused Indians of being: starting from Jerry Kennelly and Dave Peranich (now fired at RVBD and hired at Palo Alto), it quickly became a place for loud mouthed bullies who appointed other loud mouthed bullies who were technically dinosaurs. A guy was appointed as management of PS in EMEA who lied through his teeth to people reporting to him and also customers and what was worse, pointed a finger at people reporting to him behind their back to the PS Director who, in turn, was equally incompetent and ignorant. These guys would accuse their own team members for their own mistakes to save their skin. I am a first hand witness to this as are a few others. These are the people Riverbed retained when they fired 40% in April 2015. Fortunately, I was already gone from this incompetent, toxic environment to far better and greener pastures. When I started there in 2009 it was truly a great place to work with flat structure and amazing quality people. But with serial bad management decisions Riverbed became a company of loud-mouthed bullies and liars who lost their product focus , lost all the really good people they had. The ones left behind had nothing better to do than dirty politics, slap each other on the back and play a game of mutual promotion. Professionals go to die at Riverbed. I am not at all surprised at the racist rant here against Indians because that is exactly the quality of people an employer like Riverbed would hire. After all, if anybody is any good, then why would they work at such a sweat-shop?!
If you are unhappy with the decisions the American management is taking, don't insult Indians.
Yes, HP, IBM have big workforces in India, so does MS and Google.
https://qz.com/403654/google-is-doubling-its-headcount-in-hyderabad-heres-how-to-get-hired-there/
Riverbed is a great company but if they were to really do that (moving all support and engineering to Bangalore) then it's doomed like the other giants like HP, IBM, Oracle etc. who have employed so many Indian employees. No offence to them but in my many years of working experience, Indians have been the laziest and love to act like they know everything when they don't know s**t. They are all talk but no action people. Riverbed is too great a company to be following in their footsteps
2 cents:
At some point all will go to Bang