Geek777,

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Geek777,

Основная проблема в том что ваши менторы и ревьюэры будут индусы... дальше просто после первого ревью вам самому захочется свалить в другой офис через улицу, где и платят также и и работа интересней, и не так напрягают.

Advice to Management

Amazon Fulfilment Canada is basically run by, and meant for only Indians. There are two main groups. There is a ‘Boys Club’ and within this club there is ‘Delhi Boys Club’ – a rather more exclusive subset of Boys Club. To qualify for ‘Boys Club’ you have to be Indian with Hindu (preferred) or Sikh faith. To qualify for the more exclusive ‘Delhi Boys Club’ you need to be from Northern India of Hindu faith- the closer to the city of Delhi the better it is. You just need to look at all the Level 7,8,10’s in the Canadian network to verify this claim. You will be surprised by the number of Senior Ops/Site Leads/GM’s/Director who are from Delhi. We have all talked about it as Amazonians and here I am putting it in writing for the newcomers so that they don’t waste two years of their life on a night shift to figure this out. How is this systematic favoritism executed? By hiring Indians as Pathways (Step-1) and then giving them preferential treatment by providing platform for maximum visibility (Director and above). People in the Boys Club are normally given Day shifts, have special access to GM for one on ones, are asked obvious questions in Gembas by GM so that the ‘Boy’ looks good in front of all the other team heads, etc. The ‘Boy’ will also magically land high impact, high visibility projects as well. How many buildings are run by Indian GM’s in Canada? Almost all of them. Do you really think they are the only game in town and were given all those promotions every 12 months on merit? There are no other smart employees (who went to basically same Business schools) worthy of promotions to Level 7 and 8? The bias is so obvious that you would have to be an idiot not to notice it. There are a few white Caucasians/Asians at L-7 that were either promoted by a non-Indian GM or by an Indian to disguise the obvious game plan that is in place since 2014. Now that you have read this, keep an eye on the ‘Promotions’ email coming from these GM’s and start placing those promoted into ‘Boys Club’ and ‘Delhi Boys Club’ and you would be astonished by the lack of backbone shown by HR to stop this systematic discrimination. Your Options to get promoted after getting hired (if you are not Indian): Work for non-Indian GM. If it is not possible, move to US after 1 year or AMZL or any other subsidiary where you are not reporting to an Indian boss. It is all relationship-driven. Nothing to do with your results and hard work. Be smart, don’t let them exploit you for too long.