It's a Gloomy Day.The weather is bad in Bangalore.Bad news is adding to the gloom.Reached office after 10:00 by cab.Every week we are getting Bring your Buddy Email.There are plenty of Employee Referral Jobs in Citrix. Just Google on "Employee... — read more
Bangalore readiness team is getting hit again
Last year 4 members have been lay off from that team, now its going to haunt again
Many Manual Testers are letgo
Manual Testers in Cloud team are layed-offs.
Cost cutting have other better ways..
cost cutting can be done in many ways.. It can be food, transport and a lot more.. what is the point of kicking loyal asses? Tha is not the way of running company. Ever heard Microsoft or IBM laying off employees for cost cutting???? Whats wrong with... — read more
Brian Madden prediction: Citrix moves HQ back to Florida
http://www.brianmadden.com/blogs/brianmadden/archive/2015/11/18/citrix-announces-plan-to-spin-off-goto-lay-off-1000-employees-and-move-hq-back-to-florida.aspx
Did anyone see the stock price today
Wow - down huge. -7.65 (-9.76%) Ellotts so called strategy is not getting much of a positive reception! Bring back Mark T!!!
What happened in Fort Lauderdale and Santa Clara?
haven't heard much from these locations
Any update regarding the Raleigh office ?
Any information is greatly appreciated. A lot of ppl nervous but I imagine that's everywhere.
Hiring Citrites in Bangalore
After January's restructuring, we placed few of the Citrites in Product companies. Now we are hiring for a startup in Stealth Mode. Let me know if anyone is interested http://goo.gl/FThmLq
Any further news for Tech-Support employees in India
Does Tech-support will be kicked out in June? Is that true?
Layoff started in Brazil
So far, two individuals from sales.
That's right woodchuck-chuckers, it's groundhog day!
Any chance they'll offer people voluntary redundancy? Probably not :o( I hope anyone that wants it gets it and for those who don't... I hope the karma police are involved in the cull this time around!
Not good news for Contractors(3P)
In last layoff, not a single contractor (3P) was impacted but this time both permanent and contractors will be impacted.
Teams which are likely to be impacted
What i know from some resources that products in mobility and goto* are most likely to be impacted. Spinoff of these products may happen and it will be overtaken by some mother companies. Few employees will be impacted from non-programming... — read more
Is that layoff starts in Jan for bangalorians?
I have heard that layoff will start for bangalore employees in Jan
Pls share geo, role and team hits to get overall picture
Don't give names (it'll cause the thread to get removed). Let's share a general global assessment of what's getting taken out. Which large groups and teams are being hit? How much in each geo... that type of thing. Thanks!
Rumor: The spinoff GoTo company will be called GoTuit
I'm sure most of you will get this one . . .
Will the real Slim Shady please stand up??
We are mere minutes away from seeing some senior level management getting ousted... let's hear from you. Add some credibility to this board and shed some light on what's happening behind the door. This whole deal reeks of... you know what. If you... — read more
From Citrix's web site: Operational Review Update.
Headcount Actions Up to 1,000 full-time, temporary and contractor roles being impacted in Q4'15 and Q1'16 Focus on non-quota carrying headcount reductions Detailed plans being executed to deliver against savings targets. Saving being derived from:... — read more
You may want to start that job search now
ABB Concise is firing up a new DevOps organization (as of march)| Ultimate was hiring devops architects for it's private cloudstack internal cloud| Dycom Industries was hiring Linux web developers and people with GPS/GIS experience| iPipeline (across... — read more
On a lighter note
What a great day at work. I finally got to tell my boss what I thought of her, and some of her direct reports. I feel much better, relieved.
Bangalore Layoffs
Do you know if Bangalore is going to be affected?
For All Doomsayers
Here is a quick piece of information of all of you who think that the end of times is upon us: 7% year over year to $813 million, including a 7% increase in product and license revenue, 15% growth from software-as-a-service revenue, an increase of 6%... — read more
May be needed
Forget about GoTo guys and be prepared TO GO :) All the very best for those To Go. Cheers
This layoff was 100% predicted in a thread posted 2 weeks ago -a history lesson - https://www.thelayoff.com/citrix-systems/post/5119051091148800
https://www.thelayoff.com/citrix-systems/post/5119051091148800
What about Severance Pay this time around?
Are they still going to be generous?
Layoff of Non Quota Carrying Roles - Sales Folks are Safe
OK, most of them do order taking and there is very little sales going on. Let's keep them. Engineers make our products and things that we sell, so let's see what happens once we stop developing products. I just cannot understand this flawed logic... — read more
CItrix, ShareFile, LAYOFFS
Maybe not that bad for ShareFile... but looks like that entrepreneurship accelerator is dead in the water: http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/blog/techflash/2015/11/citrix-layoffs-restructuring-plans-for-sharefile.html
Elliott Management Pressures
Nov 17 (Reuters) - Cloud computing software maker Citrix Systems Inc, under pressure from activist hedge fund Elliott Management, said it would spin off its GoTo business into a listed company and cut about 1,000 jobs. The company's shares were down... — read more
We split, we do layoffs. We merge, we do layoffs.
WTF? How's this possible?
Does 1000 count include GOTO folks?
Or are GOTO folks on top of 1000 that was announced?