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It’s unfortunate the author didn’t call out the company by name but I guess I get it. If they did it may elicit some stronger push for change.

Unfortunately, anonymity can breed some distrust in the content. By calling out the company by name, it may cause others who experienced the same to speak out too.

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"Some distrust", understatement of the last two hours.

Based on his LinkedIn, it seems like it might be Cisco.

This isn’t my experience being recruited by Cisco, and it also doesn’t line up with geography (and Cisco is nothing like Hooli).

Cisco, at least at a time did invest in A&T and NC State, far more so than UNC which it didn’t recruit from for a period.

Oh god. Cisco. I'd rather be at IBM in RTP.

Say what you will about Cisco licensing (too damn expensive in my opinion) but Cisco has consistently been rated as one of the best tech companies to work for. Which is something no one would say about IBM.

I'd love to know how people working on WebEx rate it because WebEx is the worst, the absolute worst, video and conference calling app I have to use at least semi-regularly. Every time I have to use it I know it's going to waste a huge amount of peoples' time: the first 5 minutes of any meeting are always a shitshow and the audio quality is always terrible throughout. Also, none of us needs to be interrupted by an automated announcement telling us that somebody has turned up 10 minutes late to the meeting - STFU and get out of the damn way of the conversation.

It gets trounced by Microsoft Teams. Teams! Think about that! The latecomer to the party that's actually turned into something pretty decent.

So I find it really hard to believe that anyone working on WebEx could possibly rate Cisco as a great place to work. A great place to sit around and do sweet F.A., maybe, whilst your userbase seethes and rages, but not a great place to work.

He said that he went on a trip TO North Carolina. His LinkedIn shows he worked for Cisco in RTP, NC. He then worked for Nutanix and Lyft in Seattle. So more likely it’s one of those two.

Weird, so the Hooli analogy is very strained.

Lyft could be considered a Hooli-like entity.

What if it's Lyft? What if things are actually rather broken there? That would be a hell of a thing, wouldn't it?

Wouldn't it.

Are you suggesting that a company that's copying Uber - is copying them right down to the shittiest details of the management culture?

(Because, ummmm, I find that very believable...)

Lyft was actually the first entrant in their market.

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