True Carrer Destryoing Story.... - Lead Consultant Ciena Employee Review

1.0
15 Feb 2017
Recommend
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Pros

I was hired in Bangalore Drive. Interview happened in five star and I got good relocation package with air tickets for family and 5 star hotel stay for 15 days.... Salary offered was good with free cab and awesome free food..... Anybody would feel like heaven.... Really shocking story starts here. Read cons section for details.......

Cons

First day at Ciena I was introduced to Buddy and team... People were asking me do you already know someone here, who all took your interviews... As if hiring is not done on merit basis here. clear fishy environment... Buddy was running away from me .. No one in the team is interested in talking.. I went for Lunch alone... My manager was still supposed to Join Ciena... NO one was willing to answer my queries. I was given trainning videos and link which were made to create confusions........ 3 weeks went like this. I told the same to director but he was like I can't help, you have to live with it.... Then my manger rejoined Ciena 3rd time... He already resigned twice and joined third time...... Now, this guy's linked in profile is missing and from his behaviour he looked like never managed a team before, he was still in his immature days and was behaving like a techie peer to me... He was having less experience than me.... When he saw my profile he got jealous and started playing games with my tasks... he included my buddy also in his group and they started playing games against me to let me down.... they gave me a script with 2500 lines with while loop starting @ line 1 and ending at line 2500 with not even a single comment and function in between on top of that they started changing design/requirement of task everyday to make my life miserable. They together used to go for smoke outside office at least 10 times a day to plan politics... Escalation did not help @ any level.. HR was dumb and helpless .. Senior Management not interested and do not want to improve anything..... Finally before I could think/blink they asked me to quit because of performance issues within 2 months of joining. Someone already warned me not to join Ciena.. But he did not tell me his true story.. Now, I knew the reason..... People are living dangerously here with low level politics without any work and have become puppets for good salary and perks

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