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I was Shaken. Felt VOIDAnswer is going to be very long - I have not expressed my feeling to anyone after that day so here is lengthy answer (yeah - another Introvert !). This happened in PUNE.It was a good day with blue cloudless sky and warming temperature, I woke up early since I was in first shift so started earlier to office.signNowed office, had some work that I owned and went with colleagues for breakfast, when came back noticed HR and manger were discussing something in meeting room, I continued my work, until interrupted by manger to come along with him, so I did.In Meeting RoomM: How are you Mr. XXX?me: I am well and good , feeling quite good today.M: hmm, so Mr. XXX, how many years you have been working for XYZ and how was your experience so far ?me : (what the hell he is asking me this, wondering why he is asking this question to me) completed 2.5 years so far (I joined as fresher there ) and told regular rotten things like feels good , good work culture,bla bla bla.M: okay, let me come to the point - there is feedback for you from team mates that you are not doing well and keeps sleeping at nights when you are in night shift , your attitude towards work is not good. Is that true ?me : (I was shocked for few mins and I took me while to get out of it )I am sure there must be some misunderstanding, this is not true (In my mind, I smelled something fishy )M: Well, Mr. XXX, I have feedback in written for you and that must be true and I don’t think it might be some misunderstanding. Let me call HR to join here ( I came to know this later that this was pre-planned and both HR and manger were already hand in hand)While waiting for HRme : (sweated, my throat went dry ) -felt anxious, my heart was beating fastlyM: waited calmly with mild smile on his faceHR joins meetingHR: how are you Mr. XXX,M: hmm, he is quite frightenedHR: hey XXX, relax, do you want to drink some water ? (while opening a bottle )me: did not utter a single word (I was sweating )HR : Forcefully handed over water bottleme: did drink some waterHR : I have a news for you, we here are XYZ no longer require your services and you are relieved from today and you may leave after this meeting.me : what ? what ? (heartbeat on high, could not believe on my ears )HR: Relax, calm down, you will get your 2 months salary and relieving letter along with form 16 and pay slips, you may leave nowme : Almost broke into tears literally, my eyes were RED.HR and M : they were just watching me what I am going through.me: Sir, Madam, there is some misunderstanding here, I kept telling this is not true in different ways.HR & M : both silent - no words spoken.me : again - I kept telling and trying to explain.HR : Please leave your id at me and get your stuff and leave - otherwise I have to call securityme : (coming out of shock , I was explaining like a beggar to someone rich )I am from lower middle classed family, my father is retired from school as clerk and mother is housewife , I have responsibility of younger brother for his education and I have to support my family. (M was very well aware about my background )HR : (in somewhat harsher and loud voice) : Please get out.me : I literally grabbed HR and manager feet to show me some mercyHR : XXX, please leave ASAP.meanwhile, M calls security to escort me to the gate , few mins passed, a security personnel comes in and requests me to come along with him.me : while standing and giving merciful look to both - still hoping they will revert their decision and came out of meeting room and headed towards washroomI asked security personnel to wait outside washroom and let me wash me eyes that were much REDDER and shred me tears.I came out of washroom and asked security personnel to wait at main door and requested not to come by desk very politely, he agreed, went to my cubicle , did not show any sign for what happened, took my stuff as if I am searching for something from my drawer ,just so as not to take doubt among team mates , took my stuff and gave a smile back to team mates who were not having any idea that I am leaving PERMANENTLYI walked very SLOWLY with security guy and came out of building.signNowed room (there was no one at room- room mate was at job, we were just two guys )- I CRIED AND CRIED AND CRIED FOR HOURS - and for the first time in life I experienced GREAT VOIDI was constantly thinking of my family (I was unmarried then ) and their dreams, their hopes - all gone just like that !!(I always used to send 90% my salary to home for support and brother’s education so I was not having any big bucks in banks )On the same day - I got some many calls from my colleagues - news was spread finally , did not answered single one.They all came to meet me and I told what M told me about them and they said no one has given any feedback.I did not broke news to my home - I broke it when I went to home after 1.5 months.I broke it to my room mate after 2 days.Meanwhile - I decided to change my spends towards my lifestyle since I was only having 3k in my salary account and I have to live with that for at least 2.5 months since I could not ask for money at home.I used to eat just a SINGLE WADA PAO for a day and cup of tea - you heard it - just a single wada pao for a day and a cup of tea and I have to prepare for interviews as well with this empty stomach -Whenever I got interview call - I spent money for transport and skipped eating Wada Pao and shamelessly used to ask at interview locations if they are proving free meals for candidatesI lost almost 15–20 kgs in 1.5 monthsThis continued for 8 months and finally I got a decent job !!(I faced so many cross questions like why did you leave your job in middle while holding no offer - since it was mentioned by HR on releasing certificate that I am, XXX, wants to move on )P.S.Later I come to know that HR had hired someone from college pass out from M referral who was relative of M.There were no issues among team mates - my team was really decent team - just t0 be clear.My Room mate helped me a LOT during this periodForgive my poor English and grammatical errorsI moved on and LIFE HAS TAUGHT ME A GOOD LESSON THAT I WILL NEVER FORGET.

Hello,I am a Computer Science Engineering student of 2019 batch and I attended the Cognizant recruitment drive (Off-campus) on 22nd June 2019. From our year there had been a small change in the exam pattern for Cognizant.The recruitment consists of 3 steps:-1> Online Aptitude Test2> Technical Interview3> HR Interview**Remember all of the above rounds are eliminating rounds. For Example-> You have to secure the cutoff marks in the Aptitude test to qualify for the Technical Interview. Like that**1> Aptitude TestThis test is taken by Aspiring Minds (commonly known as AMCAT). This test is taken online. All will beMCQ type and **there will be NO NEGATIVE MARKINGS**.This test will contain 4 sections namely-> Verbal Ability; Quants; Logical Ability; Automata Fixing.Okay, now let me explain these all one by one.>> Verbal Ability:-> This part contains mainly English Grammar and Comprehensions. Just go through any basic English grammar books of class 9,10 standard then you can easily get through this section. This section will contain questions from Prepositions; Articles; Idioms; Phrases; Jumbled Sentences; etc. Regarding Comprehension, see there will be 3-4 paragraphs based on which 4-5 questions will be asked. Total questions will be 22-25 and time will be 18 minutes.>> Quants:-> This part will be the most time consuming section according to me. But trust me that this part will only contain class 8,9,10 standard mathematics. So if you are good at mathematics you will clear the section. For preparation go through INDIABIX (seriously it helped me a lot) and RS Agarwal Quantitative Aptitude Book. This section mainly contains Profit & Loss; Percentage; Pipes & Cistern; Work & Time; Boats & Streams; Basic Algebra; Basic Trigonometry; Mensuration; and few others. This section will contain 15-18 questions.>> Logical Ability:-> This part will contain various types of questions like Puzzles; Jumbled words; Series; Comparison; Analogy; Blood Relationship; etc. This will be a little tough section if you have not practiced enough. Again refer INDIABIX for this section also and RS Agarwal verbal and non-verbal reasoning book. This section will contain 16-18 questions.>> Automata Fixing:-> So this is the NEWLY ADDED SECTION from our year. In this section there will be 7 programming questions to complete in 20 minutes. But this section will be not MCQ type. Now Listen very Important. You do not have to write the full code of the program. Rather you just need to write the missing lines in the code given for that specific problem. There will be 3-4 test cases for each problem statement and you have to pass all of them.Then I got selected for Technical Interviewer.2>> Technical InterviewI was waiting the auditorium and the volunteer called my name. I entered the auditorium and then sat in front of the interviewer and then things happened like this.(TR-> Technical Interviewer)TR> Introduce yourself.Me> Told about my schooling; hobbies; stream; college; certifications.TR> What's your favorite subject?Me> Told DBMS.TR> Solve this. (He gave me a sheet of paper where there were 3 tables with some data and he told me to JOIN)Me> Solved.TR> What are Group By, Order By?Me> Told.TR> What's your favorite programming language?Me> C and Java also.TR> Write a code to find Prime numbers between a range of numbers. (Like if inputs are a=10 and b=20 then output will be 11, 13, 17, 19).Me> Solved but could not complete it.TR> Explain your solution.Me> I explained.TR> Write a code of Bubble Sort.Me> Solved easily actually.TR> Any Questions?Me> My areas for improvement and Training Period.TR> Thank you.Me> Thank you sir.Then I got selected for HR Interview.3>> HR InterviewHR> How's your day?Me> Good sir.HR> Introduce yourself apart from what written in your CV.Me> Told.HR> Why you want to join Cognizant?Me> Told.HR> Any Relocation problem?Me> No.HR> Why you will leave Kolkata when there are opportunities here also?Me> Told.HR> Told me the different shift timings at Cognizant.Me> Not a problem sir.HR> signNow. (It was a declaration about timings, relocation)Me> Signed.HR> Thank you.Me> Thank you sir.Bang!!! It's over.On 26th June 2019 I got the SELECTION LETTER about my selection in Cognizant.If you have liked this review then PLEASE GIVE A UPVOTE.Thank you and I wish you are going to be my future colleague.

Hello,I am a Computer Science Engineering student of 2019 batch and I attended the Cognizant recruitment drive (Off-campus) on 22nd June 2019. From our year there had been a small change in the exam pattern for Cognizant.The recruitment consists of 3 steps:-1> Online Aptitude Test2> Technical Interview3> HR Interview**Remember all of the above rounds are eliminating rounds. For Example-> You have to secure the cutoff marks in the Aptitude test to qualify for the Technical Interview. Like that**1> Aptitude TestThis test is taken by Aspiring Minds (commonly known as AMCAT). This test is taken...

There was no official antisemitism, or any other ethnic bigotry, prior to WWII. It was all class warfare then. No one cared which ethnicity you were.It all changed during and after the WWII, when ethnic identity became all the rage. At first, that affected several other ethnic group much worse than Jews; by Brezhnev’s time, it became primarily about Jews.Officially, the word “Jews” was rarely mentioned. It was a rude word and could offend some delicate spirits. There was however an official campaign in 1948–1953 against Rootless cosmopolitans and “murderers in white lab coats” (both euphemisms for Jews), most of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee was tortured and shot in 1953 at the height of the anti-Jewish campaign, Jewish theater was closed (prompting a joke that “other than Moishe and myself, all the artists in our Roma theater are Jewish), and, all over the country, random Jews like my Grandfather were beaten on the streets by mobs, on the ground of being rootless cosmopolitans. Fortunately, Grandma was an ethnic Russian who was willing to fight the whole mob single-handedly and had a sharp tongue and probably saved his life.In 1953, there were rumors of trains ready to “evacuate” the rootless cosmopolitans into Siberia to save them from people’s anger, like it had already been done to several other ethnic groups before. Fortunately, the death of Stalin stopped that wave of abuse. I had always secretly hoped that maybe a Jewish “murderer in a white coat” helped him out of his misery in a self-fulfilling prophecy sort of a way, but no; apparently, it was a Georgian and a murderer arguably even worse than Stalin.After that, there were a few years when everybody, even Jews, sighed relief. Then again, it depended on a republic. As I wrote before, Ukraine, especially Western Ukraine, was fantastically antisemitic to its few surviving Jews, forcing them to try their luck in Russia and other republics. I don’t think the antisemites needed an official justification. Their newfound relative freedom during Chruschev’s time also meant the freedom to act on their nationalist beliefs. It did not need a justification. A person’s obviously Jewish name was pedaled as a justification, nudge nudge, wink wink. Everybody understood. That’s why I laugh when Ukrainians try to portray themselves as victims of Russian communists. If Russian and not Ukrainian communists ruled in Ukraine, my father would have been able to find a job there and I would not have been born.Then there was official expulsion of Jews from the branches of science that prepared the cadres for the defense and space industry, Physics being the most notable of them. I was told there was a secret instruction against “ethnicities whose nation states don’t have diplomatic relations with the USSR”. Another euphemism for Jews obviously. South Africa did not have diplomatic relations with the USSR, but how many (white) South Africans were applying to Russian universities?That’s why neither of my parents became physicists and instead acquired a similar, but not nearly as tightly regulated scientific speciality. Despite both being gold medalists, i.e. the “champions” of their schools.A diplomatic career was of course totally closed to Jews, but not many wanted it in the first place. Those people were elite. One mink-coated diplomatic wife once told my mother that her dog eats what her children have never tasted; as an explanation why that dog gets to poop on our playground. Of course we were not allowed there, that was understood. No decent people wanted to be in that swamp anyway. The limitations in scientific education really hurt though.When the STEM faculties of Moscow State University (the most prestigious university in Russia) stopped accepting Jews, the Jewish students instead applied to 2 or 3 other universities who were more accepting. I studied in one of those. We were lovingly dubbed “a synagogue”. Our “synagogue” major was known for two things: very low competition, and very high admission requirements. A seeming contradiction. The quality of education in those schools shot up sharply; not because we were the best, but because we would have normally attended a more reputable school. Coincidentally, the quality of education in the more reputable school (Moscow State University) decreased sharply at about the same time. We know because that school still had some Jewish professors left, even though it no longer had Jewish students, whose lectures we could sometimes attend, without getting any credits for it. We could see that the majority of the local students don’t understand the lecture.As for our “synagogue”, our rector was quoted as saying that “having too many Jewish students is scandalous (неприлично)”. But, to his credit, he went out of his way to institute anonymous entrance exams, thus making selection by ethnicity impossible, and selection by connections, nearly impossible. Which is how we became the synagogue we were in the first place.

Because he didn’t.Let's start with the fact that Obama's 2011 action wasn't carried out like a Three Stooges routine.And we can continue on to the next fact, which is that Trump's is a blanket ban on all immigrants entering the United States, issued without warning, due care, or, apparently, thinking.The 2011 action was an administrative review, not a ban. Obama administration officials met with officials from the various departments - State, Homeland Security, Justice, intelligence agencies - to make the refugee vetting process, already strict, even stricter. Extreme vetting, anyone? This,...

They used false “help wanted” ads to fire their own employees that were looking for a new job.I worked for a lead generation service which sold qualified lists of homeowners (and their telephone numbers) to financial advisers. Then, they sold those same financial advisers a telemarketing service that would call those homeowners and arrange appointments with them. There is so much that is “shady” about this company that it is impossible to bring up one questionable act without first explaining several previous questionable or downright illegal acts. (UPDATE: if you want more details about how bad it was to work for this place, check out John Hursey's answer to What is the most ridiculous reason for which you have been fired?)After a particularly horrifying series of events right around the holiday season, I decided to begin looking for a new job. I got on craigslist, and I found several positions in customer service and data entry that were available right in my city. I sent them a quick email with my resume attached, and waited for a response.The next day I was called into the President’s office. He invited me to sit down. His mother (the vice president of the company) was standing behind him. He asked me if I was happy working for him.Luckily for me, I knew this was a trap of some kind and answered honestly. I told him that I was interested in having more free time with a more flexible schedule and that it would be impossible to do so with my current job, so I was in the process of looking for something else. I also told him that I had informed my direct supervisor of my intentions last week, and that I would give the company adequate warning—at least two weeks notice—before I quit.He and his mother looked at each other. Well, he said, it turns out that one of the companies I had applied to was the very same company I worked for now. I thought that was odd, because I don’t have any intellectual disabilities or mental impairments that would indicate I would apply to the same company that I currently worked for. Nevertheless, I told him that I suppose this was good news, since perhaps I could simply transfer to whatever this open position was and still maintain my employment with his company while working the schedule that was most convenient for myself.Not so fast. It turned out there wasn’t any positions available in those departments. Their strategy was to entice applicants with positions in data entry and customer service and then during the interview inform them that those positions had been filled; those applicants were then offered much less pay and schedule flexibility as a salesman. In addition, current employees that applied for these jobs were summarily fired for being “disloyal.”A month later I was terminated, for reasons I still do not fully understand. I applied for unemployment, and when I explained the series of events leading to my termination the lady at the unemployment office literally scoffed at me and told me that my story was unbelievable. She even called me personally at home to tell me that the company was contesting my unemployment filing and that she expected me to lose the arbitration process.The day of the hearing I got a phone call from the same lady, in tears. She apologized profusely for how she had treated me. She had just completed a five-minute interaction with the president and his mother, confirming not only my story but also her worst fears about humanity in general.

We usually rely on a combination of suggestions from friends and acquaintances in the software industry who have implemented their own HR software management systems, looking up great reviews and taking in insights from industry experts and practitioners like this one about top HR management software, scouring user forums, and patiently referring to stories of user cases. Rounding up what we’ve gleaned from these multiple sources, our shortlist gave us three of the leading solutions in the market: BambooHR, Freshteam and Gusto HR.BambooHR. Our search for a human resources management software was spurred by our company’s need to administer benefits to a growing number of workers. Turns out BambooHR is especially empowered to address this need: a centralized database defines and holds the benefits for each of our employees. As you can imagine, the system allows our HR manager to summon and use any pertinent data in no time.BambooHR fields 12 benefit types applicable to all groups of employees, and employees can change the necessary entries upon every update in their status (health insurance, marriage, and much more). We are quite impressed that BambooHR offers a modifiable rate health plan, which means that you can easily track even age-based plans and automatically calculate the variable amounts employees have to pay. For the same operation, companies typically have to implement third-party programs that are integrated with the system.We also came to prize the reporting capabilities of BambooHR: along with the standard Equal Employment Opportunity reports, you can have it pull out benefits reports. The reports are based on files stored and categorized in the virtual database, and will automatically summarize and consider all applicable taxes. And as with most essential operations in BambooHR, reporting can be done using a mobile device.Freshteam. Freshteam makes it easy to access and engage candidates, then collect structured feedback and conduct scheduled interviews. You can send out notifications to each candidate and team member, and offer a dedicated conversation field with intelligent response templates. You can sync your personal inbox and correspond with candidates right from Freshteam, and send bulk email to save additional time.To manage your job postings, Freshteam initially prompts you to design define your job postings. Once you have taken care of that, you can proceed to share the output on internal portals and popular career sites. If you happen to be short on ideas, Freshteam provides you with attractive and modifiable templates. You can of course create a brand-new listing with detailed descriptions. You can associate each vacancy with a specific hiring team for maximal transparency, and the team can configure any of the hiring workflow stages to make the candidate’s experience more personalized.All hiring operations are contained within a single dashboard, making it easy for managers preserve full control over the hiring process. Familiarizing new talents about personalized rules and policies is a breeze, ensuring they have a good grasp of the crucial tools they could use to remain valuable professionals .Gusto HR. If your company is handicapped by lack of expert human resources personnel, implementing Gusto HR will give the impression that you suddenly acquired quite a few of the top HR pros in the field.Among other things, the Gusto HR guarantees ACA compliance: it files new-hire paperwork automatically, and assists you with federal W-4s and I-9s. It also expertly handles workers’ compensation, ensuring that you will only be paying what you really owe. Gusto HR dives into critical details of your HR operations to ensure you are not found amiss on HIPAA, ACA, and ERISA standards, automatically ascertaining needed data and all benefits are screened for compliance.Further on, Gusto HR allows employees to set and manage their 401(k) plans, enroll in specific benefits schemes, and save money for their retirement.To minimize errors from human operations, Gusto centralizes data and makes them readily available for any employee Gusto account. Gusto allows employees to access their data anytime from any device, and they can make the necessary changes without the manager’s intervention.

A VP & GM at Nortel, I wasn’t fired, as in terminated, but demoted in responsibility but not grade. In other words, my compensation wasn’t reduced but my responsibilities were. This was sufficiently odd that I received a call from HR asking me to explain my version: John Roth, our CEO, had directed them to “understand” why my direct manager, a Group VP, was forcing so many talented people out of the company? I told HR that his technique for justifying demotions, as well as his fondness for public floggings, was well known and I wasn’t getting into a urinary discharge contest with him.In reality, I was being heavily recruited and had begun interviewing before the demotion. I moved to another company at much higher compensation and with substantively more responsibility within 45 days after the demotion. I gave Nortel the requisite 30 days notice.Nortel continued to pay me for six months despite my having departed. And, I got to keep the money!What??? Having answered the question, the details may prove to be interesting.As a VP&GM based in the US, I was paid in dollars but out of the Canadian executive budget. When I was demoted, responsibility for my compensation moved from the Canadian budget to the US budget. This took some time since timely accounting was never a Nortel core competency: each budget center had its own way of doing things and heaven forbid that members of one group would actually “talk” to the other.After I resigned, I was asked to work a special project so I spent my days in the office. A friend asked “what kind of exit package did you get?” Huh? “At your level, no one ever leaves empty handed”, I was told. Hmmmm.I dropped by the local HR director’s office (who had facilitated my demotion) and asked whether Nortel would consider an exit package? “Why should we? You’ve already resigned.”I explained: True enough, but I was never asked to sign a non-compete and I’m being recruited by competitors. I’ll sign a non-compete and forgo those opportunities if compensated.Three days later I received a non-compete and proprietary information agreement with an offer for a year’s salary to sign. “OK, I can live with that.” Two days after signing the agreement, my new employer (who wasn’t a competitor and hadn’t made the offer when I approached HR) released a press release announcing my hiring. To say that HR was annoyed is a vast understatement.While all this is transpiring, US Finance processed my exit and shipped the paperwork to Canada because I was still on the US books as being administered out of the Canadian executive budget. Meanwhile Canadian Finance had shipped paperwork to the US for them to begin paying me. When my exit paperwork arrived in Canada, the response was “not my job, he’s US’ responsibility” — no flags raised. My transfer from Canadian to US budget arrived after they had passed my exit to Canada, so they did what the paperwork directed: I was dutifully added to the US payroll.Had I still been employed by Nortel, I would have missed two month’s pay during all this. By the time US payroll began transferring money to my bank account in NC, I had accepted my new job, closed the account and moved to Texas. Despite being “closed”, when money was deposited into my former account, the bank’s system accepted it, reinstated my ATM card and shipped the new one to my old address — welcome back, Michael!!!I had sold my home to a cardiac surgeon. By the time the bank began mailing me statements and new cards, the USPS mail forwarding window had ended. The surgeon tossed any mail to me — it was mostly junk — into a box.About nine months after buying the house, the surgeon’s wife called me. She noticed envelopes from BoA with cards in them while dumping the box. Further rummaging resulted in a stack of mail from the bank. Her husband had simply dumped everything with Camp as the addressee into the box.I asked her to FedEx the bank envelopes to me. Imagine my surprise at having six months of deposits sitting in an account that I thought had been closed!I called Nortel HR and told them that they were still paying me and suggested they should stop. I also told them I might need their help to unwind this mess. For example, not knowing I was receiving the money, I had misreported my income for the previous year to the IRS and thought an explanation from Nortel might smooth the process.The next day I get a call from a VP responsible for security at Nortel. He is huffing & puffing — demanding that I return the money immediately — and acting like I’ve done something wrong. Even after I explain the delay in learning about the deposits he is … well … he’s an ass.After listening to this jackass bray awhile, I finally unload. The payments resulted from miscommunication among multiple US and Canadian departments and senior levels were going to be embarrassed at the poor controls that allowed it to happen. Lower level heads would roll because — well, people assigned detailed responsibilities simply don’t allow their execs to be embarrassed. The senior executive to whom I supposedly reported had been authorizing payroll disbursement without paying attention so he and his Finance chief would soon receive a career-limiting audit of everything finance-related starting with their expense reports. And finally, before I returned any money, I was going to pay for expenses caused by Nortel’s screw-up: fees charged by my accountant to help fix my understating income to the IRS and state; penalties and fees as well as additional taxes due; and whatever else might arise. I ended the call by telling him that I was pleased to explain this mess directly to John Roth, Nortel CEO, who had promoted me and placed me under the Group VP who ultimately demoted me. Once he grasped that the problem would engulf senior executives on both sides of the border, he said he would discuss it internally and call me in a few days regarding the way forward.I never received that call or any other follow up from Nortel regarding the matter. The money, less related expenses, sat in a CD for 6 years before I finally decided to accept it as a departing gift.

I worked with a girl for about 2 months in an art department and she was very, shall we say, vivacious. But I didn’t have any intentions of hitting on her when I casually asked her if she would like to go to lunch with me. Just being friendly. Well, when we got in the elevator to leave she says, “Would you please take me to a cheap hotel and fuck my brains out.” I was caught off guard but I think I handled it well…the situation, not her. I told her the truth. Which was that my partner was at home pregnant with our child and although I was very flattered I couldn’t, in good conscience, do th...