Sanjay Dayal xamplify sucks

Sanjay Dayal

Sanjay Dayal, a graduate of IIT Delhi, was behind the concept of un-obstrucive observation agents at Xamplify, perhaps critical to the company's mission of selling its product as being able to detect money laundering activities.

Sanjay Dayal at Xamplify

Sanjay Dayal was hired after a couple of months I had spent on the job. He had previously worked in technology firms in East Bay area and knew what it takes to survive in a racist and corrupt outfit like Xamplify.

Sanjay Dayal and Sumer Johal

While Jeffrey Klein was busy planting white boys in important positions, secretly Sumer Johal was hiring his own group of loyalists. Anupam Bordia, Basalat Ali Raja, and a few others seemed to be part of that group bound by certain common factors. Sanjay Dayal too, seemed to be a Sumer Johal loyalist.

One day, after I had been in Xamplify as a contract worker for about two months, I heard Sumer Johal talking loudly to a recruiter. It was one of the very few occasions he talked so openly otherwise everything was behind closed doors. Johal was telling the recruiter that he was looking for a person who had a degree from a place like IIT (hey I have a degree from IIT but he treated me like dirt), had experience in databases and things like weblogic or something similar. I thought the company was trying to do statistical analysis and I couldn't understand the need for that new person. Anyway, soon after Xamplify did find a person, I assume, exactly meeting that description. He was Sanjay Dayal. Hired as a regular employee and at more than twice my wages. (He has a BS, I have MS, MBA, but hey, he is special.)

After he joined the firm, Johal started pushing his projects. Jeffrey Klein was suspicious and once in one of those rare talks to me, asked me about Sanjay Dayal's project. I praised him saying that he is from IIT Delhi and therefore, even though I don't know anything about his project, it must be good, real good.

Sanjay Dayal and Top Management

As a part of his survival instinct, Sanjay Dayal seemed to like people in management, whoever they might happen to be. He always found Jeffrey Klein "brilliant" and Sumer Johal "hard-working." His ultra-conservative and pro-management viewpoints made him a favorite of Jeffrey Klein and I would guess him to be currently working his magic on the new management - Robert Oliver, Robert Mark and Adam Borison, Andrew Rudd et al. On the other hand, Jeffrey Klein and Sumer Johal, as expected, have fallen out of favor with him.

Work Ethics and Sanjay Dayal

He did come on time and left on time and was there even on a few weekends. (Thomson Emerson was an entirely different story.) However, Dayal will take very frequent smoke breaks, coffee breaks (to Starbucks) and shopping breaks. Can't blame him though, I guess there was not enough work for him at Xamplify.

Ethics and Dayal

The company provided him with an entry card to a nearby parking garage. However, he hardly used that. Starbucks was about 3 blocks from Xamplify and since in the mornings Sanjay used to come to Starbucks first, he used to park his car there - mostly till 5 PM. How? He had a handicapped placard valid till June of 2003, he just used to hang in his car. No, he was not physically-challenged to best of my knowledge, just ethically-challenged.

Sanjay Dayal and Me

Seems like part of his duty as assigned by Sumer Johal was to keep an eye on me. After I complained about Sumer Johal to Jeffrey Klein, he stopped talking to me. Actually, he had invited me for lunch telling me that he would wait outside the company for me. When I didn't see him there, I circled the place a few times and then gave him a call. He didn't pick up the phone and never called back. It appears Sumer Johal had told him about my letter to Jeffrey Klein (part of it on the index page). After a gap of over ten months, on the orders of Robert Oliver, he came smooth talking to me again, in order to gather information from me.