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Re:What I learned getting acquired by Google by pcl on Thursday November 09, 2023 @02:01PM (#38209334)
In my time at Cisco, I was impressed with how well they integrated contractors. Wasn’t like this at all.
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Re:What I learned getting acquired by Google by sangnoir on Thursday November 09, 2023 @02:35PM (#38209895)
Cisco has/had an outrageously large contractor contingent (this may be different between Business Units). That's a huge cultural difference between Cisco the tech giant sets
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Re:What I learned getting acquired by Google by ponector on Thursday November 09, 2023 @03:22PM (#38210677)
According to some reports, only half of the people in Google are full time employee. Isn't it a large contingent of second-class workers?
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Re:What I learned getting acquired by Google by sangnoir on Thursday November 09, 2023 @04:00PM (#38211215)
Whatever fraction it is at Google, I'm willing to bet Cisco's is significantly larger, especially on "core-business" teams whose work is mentioned in analyst calls
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Re:What I learned getting acquired by Google by cdchn on Friday November 10, 2023 @02:55AM (#38216285)
Orders of magnitude.
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Re:What I learned getting acquired by Google by cdchn on Friday November 10, 2023 @02:54AM (#38216279)
Google has a two-class system for employees.

Cisco mostly eliminated the upper tranch of their two-class system.

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Re:What I learned getting acquired by Google by cdchn on Friday November 10, 2023 @02:53AM (#38216275)
Cisco didn't need contractors they just shifted their workforce offshore wholesale.

Source: former Cisco.

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