I was fired, quite recently, by a large e-commerce company. Basically a new VP came in and decided he wanted to clean house, particularly of senior technical staff (I was an architect), so that he could bring in some of his own people from his previous employer. It probably did not help that I'd needed to take a bunch of time off to care for my sick wife recently, nor that I didn't match the VP's preferred nationality. (He was from India).
Yes, I'm specifically accusing him of anti-American bias, along with the rest of the management of the Seattle office of this company, which was made up mostly of Indian-born ex-Amazon people. I never knew an American-born senior technical type who succeeded in Seattle -- the ones who were any good either left the company or transferred to a different office.
Despite having been at the company 3 years with good reviews, I suddenly got a bad one and was put on a "performance improvement plan," which really should have been called the "you're gone in a month no matter what you do" plan. And that was that.
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I was fired, quite recently, by a large e-commerce company. Basically a new VP came in and decided he wanted to clean house, particularly of senior technical staff (I was an architect), so that he could bring in some of his own people from his previous employer. It probably did not help that I'd needed to take a bunch of time off to care for my sick wife recently, nor that I didn't match the VP's preferred nationality. (He was from India).
Yes, I'm specifically accusing him of anti-American bias, along with the rest of the management of the Seattle office of this company, which was made up mostly of Indian-born ex-Amazon people. I never knew an American-born senior technical type who succeeded in Seattle -- the ones who were any good either left the company or transferred to a different office.
Despite having been at the company 3 years with good reviews, I suddenly got a bad one and was put on a "performance improvement plan," which really should have been called the "you're gone in a month no matter what you do" plan. And that was that.