Institutional Caste IT Department - IT Engineer Copart Employee Review

1.0
Dec 18, 2016
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Pros

It's close to Plano and Frisco.

Cons

Racial discrimination against anyone born in the United States in IT development area (Cobalt,RPG,SAP). I, my family and my parents are of Indian descent. Everybody in my immediate family were born and raised in Chicago metro area. I'm an outsider because I wasn't born in India and consequently socially segregated at work. No chance at advancement because of the location of were I grew up ("Too American" as stated by my co-workers) English is the second language in Copart's programming department. English is spoken only to appease the American born staff when they appear. There are less a handful of IT management & programming staff that were born and educated in the United States. Ongoing software development lawsuits (Sparta vs Copart). Years of missed implementation dates - 3 failed SAP implementation. SAP group is the ongoing joke in the RPG and COBALT development groups. SAP software developed by the Dallas and offshore staffs were laugh at by the German COPART operational staff recently and completely rejected (1 year development costs wasted). Good news for the RPG and COBALT development staff who support the legacy system that SAP is trying to replace. Offshore programming staff that produces little or nothing but are kept on because they are in India (Kickbacks to COPART IT management?). Senior IT management bragged about firing 20-30 IT staff members when I was hired and forced another 20 more out shortly he was hired. "Rama" (IT department head) was really proud of that fact. Offshore staff were hired shortly there after. In regard to the racial inequalities, the HR department responds with "We're in the process of correcting these problem". They're aware of the problem but can't do anything about it. The India caste system imported to the United States. It's the "Copart Way" of doing business in the IT software development department - "Institutionalize Racism". Found another job back in Chicago. Gave notice and left a couple of weeks ago. Worst 3 months of my career and life.

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