#culture

My analyst su-ks. Who hires these kids?

Just something I notice from working at Chevron over the years. A lot of Chevron employees are actually a lot more competent than their self-perceived level of competence. Most times, the smarter you are the more self-critical one can get because the tendency to question everything in itself is a core part of being intelligent.

After more than two decades here, how the he-l am I to take this as "just business?"

It won't be long before it's my or your turn to depart and face the real world and actually work for a living...

JPM is a company full of losers. Ship everything off Hyderabad and promote bootlickers to ED.

JPM has fallen….You id--ts who still work there deserve what you get.

trying to sanity check something.

I’m an engineer at Five9 and honestly I can’t tell if my team is just dysfunctional or if this is how things are across engineering.

In my team:

Communication is basically nonexistent. Half the time you don’t even know why decisions were made.
Priorities make zero sense. Everything is urgent until it suddenly isn’t, then something else becomes urgent. Also, the roadmap is always changing.
Managers don’t really seem to understand the technical side, which makes things worse.
Code quality is rough. No consistency, no standards, a lot of stuff just feels hacked together.
Documentation is almost zero, so you’re constantly guessing or reverse engineering things.
Architecture feels like it just “happened” over time instead of being designed.

It makes it really hard to do good work or build anything properly.

Genuinely curious: is this just my team or is this the general state of engineering here?

Would appreciate honest answers from people in other teams/orgs.

Does anyone remember the 25th anniversary party? If not, it was a huge party at Walnut Creek. The 50th is laid out like the spring picnics we had before COVID (and after the demise of the SAS winter parties (because of drunken debauchery..cough cough, I mean cost). SAS used to have such fun gatherings, and now the 50th anniversary is reduced to an on-campus picnic. I know there are bigger things to worry about, but from an optics and marketing perspective, it seems a little weak for such a milestone.

It's easier to send out an email like that one to thousands of human beings. Writing us off like office furniture.

If you want to have employment for life, pension and government provided insurance independent of work. move to a socialist country and stop crying about the employer's right to terminate employes at will.

Someone posted in the comments here... Please elaborate ?

Anyone else hear of others getting put on so called coaching plans? I was put on one last fall and somehow made it out. Others weren’t so fortunate. Hearing about some others here lately that have been put on them during Q3

Having worked with every one of them, I'm genuinely happy I'm leaving intel in two weeks. This is a fu--ing embarrassment.

Anyone know anything about a meet & greet in FW on 4/22, hosted my UHC Tech? Feels like a trap somehow lol.

I’ve never seen this many people leaving at once. This isn’t normal turnover. This is a mass exodus, and everyone knows exactly why.

You forced a five-day RTO that nobody wanted, layered on tracking that feels like a maximum-security system, and created an environment built on fear instead of trust. People held out hope it would get rolled back to something reasonable. The notorious 8/1 email ki-led that overnight.

Since then, it’s been a steady stream of exits with a significant ramp in 2026. And it’s not random. The people leaving are the ones with options. The ones who actually drove results. The ones you can’t replace.

Who replaces them? Not “top talent.” It’s the bottom quartile of talent, whoever is willing to accept a five-day, heavily monitored, in-office model in 2026. That’s a much smaller and much weaker pool. That’s just reality. It’s the most desperate undesirable people with no other options. Nobody is choosing this model if they have a better option.

So what you’re left with is predictable. High performers check out or leave. Everyone else learns the game. Swipe in, sit down, do the minimum, go home. Because that’s what you’re measuring now. Presence, not performance.

This is a direct result of the decisions being made in the c suite. And it’s hollowing the place out in real time. Congratulations stink, you’re going to be the chairman of nothing. Your legacy is tarnished and getting worse by the day. Tick tock, time is running out.

Things feel eerily quiet.

I heard a grapevine that citi is tracking the hours you are on your pc or you are offline/ away from your screen. Is there any truth to it? Can managers confirm?

When Brian got on stage, I heard someone say ‘what kind of BS today?’

It’s a good way to not have to say anything or face an audience unhappy with their raise when you hand out $9k in cash randomly. Is this normal?

Seriously. How is it possible to get out of the hole we are in? Can't lower prices, Customers don't want to come back to us, Can't gain trust to get new customers, Verizon is coming in. I wish Dennis or management would comment on how this company will start making money again! I have been here for a long time and I can't see a way to get out of this hole Altice put us in.

Our department has lost many members over last month, how are we supposed to handle the remaining workload effectively? Leadership in this organization doesn’t care about the people just the outcomes that they deliver for them to go to LinkedIn and post about. The culture has become so demoralizing that most of us no longer have the appetite to keep working without saying something.

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Not as good of a worker as everyone thinks.

Very lazy and don’t like change in daily routine, but still wanna get paid.

It gets me out of the house, and wife says I need to have a job of sorts.

Anything you pick tells one loads about you and your lifestyle and future intent.

Title says it all. All of my doctors are with memorial hermann so I guess I will have to find new ones. Life just keeps getting better and better at excon. So far this year I have spent 1600.00 for a heart scan, 700.00 for specialized blood work and 200.00 for an emergency room co pay plus 10% 600.00. My co worker spent 1200.00 for a colonoscopy. Another exxon employee was denied GLP 1 medication because their a1c was too low for diabetes. Funny thing is without the glp1 medication their a1c was over 7 but with gp1 it was below 6.5. You would think with stock price and money exxon has made they could afford to take care of the employees health care not. I guess indian btcs don't need health care and it is cheaper in india. A company that does not care about the health of its employees is a shameful place to work at. It is not just exxon health insurance is getting worse for everyone in the usa.

One of the funniest things I’ve ever witnessed in corporate America happened last week. Our tone deaf executives stood in front of a room and shared a half a**ed set of things we should care about. Then instead of making their “I will” statements back to the work force they had employees “commit” to their ignorance by reading statements.

News flash: Read the surveys. Less than 20 percent of the company supports the leadership team. Rumor has it we are going back to the office because the biggest proponent of going back to office has a spouse he can’t stand 😆😆😆

The company is going through turmoil and more and more people will continue to leave, can’t blame them at all. Thank goodness I’m in the final round of interviews. Instead of making things better they are getting more erratic.

Nike started acting like Shoe King instead of a Shoe Dog, and that is the problem....Go back to your Roots and begin again! Don't try to correct. Start with a fresh outlook with the same thrive and energy as PK and Bill Bowerman....Do not RESTART! Rather STOP and RESTART FRESH!

Sabrina’s out. Jordan gets promoted, takes a vacation, and then just… doesn’t come back. No explanation, nothing. And we’re just supposed to keep rowing like nothing happened.

Here’s what nobody’s saying out loud: there’s no consistent VP. No one at the helm long enough to learn the people, the work, or the direction. Just a revolving door of “we’ll figure it out” while the team down here actually figures it out.

And the AVPs we do have? Uneven is generous. One of them runs the floor like a queen holding court — he decides who’s in favor and who’s invisible. Favorites get favorites treatment. Everyone else gets managed by his mood. And his mood? It’s a full weather system. Sunny for the chosen ones. Everyone else checks the radar before they speak up.
This isn’t a talent pipeline problem. This isn’t a process problem. This is a “who is actually leading this organization and do they even want to” problem.

Good people are leaving. The ones still here are doing the math.

Fix the roof or stop being surprised when it leaks.

It is that time of year again when management suddenly becomes visible.

All year, there is little to no real contribution. No ownership. No meaningful involvement. As layoffs approach, the performance begins. More meetings. More noise. Sudden interest in high profile accounts. They attach themselves to work they did not do. They claim ownership of outcomes they did not drive. They speak about customers they do not understand.

This is not contribution. It is theater.

Everyone doing the real work can see it. The gap is obvious. The only reason it continues is because visibility is rewarded more than substance.

A textbook case of the Peter Principle. Competence is optional. Looking competent is enough to survive.

Don't ever take the company you work for seriously, and don't ever invest yourself. No extra effort, no personal dedication, no interest in the outcomes. There's no version of the story with companies like Oracle in which any of it pays off, and you don't end up left behind when you need a job the most, regretting every second you spent on work instead of your life, family, and friends.

Heard the new furniture is already breaking! KG and MG should not have been cheap purchasing ikea…. With lifestyles of their stature they should know better! SP, why did you give them access to our Amazon account? I love the new call center look, we are all very dedicated slaves who trust in marketing operations to guide us to our success

The truth is, Oracle was an ocean of innovation once, with mature software development that was run by adults. We believed in being a place for responsible and business oriented work/software, and to be a company that made other companies successful. Kinda like "All ships rise with the tide". A quiet confidence. The Oracle name had cachet. Sure, we lost people during mergers and aquisitions, but those were logical business decisions. Where did I fit? I came into Oracle's influence around 1997, and I was in and out of Oracle several times. The stories I could tell. However, the stories were within the norms of a company that was run by adults. Good and bad. I look around my life, and Orace paid for everything. My life is what it is now, because of Oracle. There was good. There was great. There is no way I can ever say that Oracle was a bad experience overall, but I can surely say there were some horrible times. Things started to go really bad, when Oracle got a case of insecurity and heavily recruited from AWS. Like the AWS folks had some secret sauce to take Oracle into the "new age". The AWS folks - or shall I say - refugees, hated AWS and jumped ship to be in Oracle. Sadly, those people who left AWS, for whatever reason, brought those same dysfunctions into Oracle. You could see it in how they interacted with "Oracle people". Yeah, the AWS transplants felt that the Oracle people were old, without innovation and at every chance, they replaced/cancelled where they could. Those AWS folks HATED Oracle! Crazy right? You left AWS because it was a terrible place to work, then you came and hated the people that hired you? We saw this happen over and over. If you want to see where this layoff cruelty came from, look no further than who came from AWS. Instead of being an ocean of innovation at Oracle, we have islands now...and they are shrinking. I am so sad to see these layoffs. Its horrible to see all the good people gone over the last year or so. These new people who are running things at Oracle, just don't get it. I think Oracle, at least the Oracle I remember (Good and bad) is dying a quick death. The current leadership is not reading the room on the AI narrative. They are doubling down on a plan that won't work because the room has changed. People - as in the general public - are getting tired of AI Resumes, AI videos, AI words, AI decisions created by a machine running on old data. These folks who are running things don't have the experience of knowing how trends go (Blockchain anyone?) So these layoffs. My guess is Oracle will implode soon on this direction. I just hope there are enough adults to want to get back in the game and fix things, and hire these folks back when it does implode.

Best Practices in 2026: Opening an account with client consent.

3 years in and they still can’t get it right. Why is this so bad?

Back to Reality.... Trump economy, War heading to " Over". Gas prices coming down. Stocks back in favor...Vz no execution.... honeymoon over, New External Execs sitting in group therapy saying how are we winning with DEI and no clue how to execute besides layoffs.

Dear Mr head of wealth, it’s now been 5 months. What in the actual f are you even doing? Why make an announcement with a timeframe of knowing more just to retract yourself like a turtle? It’s amazing the type of leadership we have here and it’s very apparent that these leaders literally don’t do anything.

Absolutely no governance, no scope control, constantly swapping quality of releases for quantity of how much they can squeeze in.

Senthil finally got a guy on his team who knew how to fix things. He documented all of the processes, identified break points and had built a coalition between product, engineering and test who agreed on the plan and were starting to fix things.

Gues what happened next (drum roll) Senthil decided to RIF the guy who was fixing the problems, the guy who could lower Salish’s blood pressure, the guy who could restore work life balance to engineers and testers.

No one is picking up the work. Hope is diminishing that T-Life will ever be a healthy team.

Don’t believe leadership when they say they care.

Does anyone have a logical answer as to why my team has to have their T1 reviews sent in by 4/14 when T1 is still not completed and bonuses don't pay until June? I swear this place just like to d1-k up things to see how we respond.

Come on guys, what a joke.
Plano office is basically a ghost town of productivity. Hardly anyone actually working.

My entire team? Mostly H4EAD housewives from Telangana who’ve been here 10+ years and still have zero clue how the software actually works. Their real expertise? flawless coffee badging 3 days a week. Ethics? Work ethic? Initiative? Bro, those words left the building decades ago.
Everyone’s just coasting, collecting paychecks, and pretending this circus is sustainable. In the AI era… how long is this absolute clown show supposed to keep running? Seriously, someone tell me. I’m dying to know.

#CorporateLife #CoastingCulture #ProductivityMyth

• how do we feel on the q4 all hands
• the first lady that spoke.. felt vague at strange on employee things to come?
• who is this lisa lady
• how are folks on legacy inmarsat side holding up?