#leadership

the fact of the matter is these leaders are not serious people. they allow pockets of legacy people to continue to obstruct progress and not streamline the organization. as long as offices like polaris exist, this stock is heading to $30

SF isn’t going anywhere: she appears committed to steering the company in the wrong direction, alongside her puppet minions; Toohey, Kehoe and Beatty.

We exceeded our targets largely because we reduced the workforce by 15k. The employees who remain are carrying significantly heavier workloads, with more responsibilities on their plates and no meaningful automation or improved processes to support them. New ways of working is just a facade.

We’ve invested millions in McKinsey, including commissions tied to projected savings effectively keeping them afloat only to see consultants and leadership reverse course on recommendations made two to three years ago. Well done Chief Executive officer and Chief financial officer!

We position ourselves as a global company, yet we don’t truly operate like one. Investment in senior roles and promotions is heavily concentrated in the U.S., while long-standing employees in other regions are seeing their roles downgraded and the value of their careers diminished. Let’s applaud our chief of people!

There also seems to be a disconnect even a sense of delusion in celebrating a 73% “recommend as a place to work” score. Many employees are worried about job security, have seen benefits reduced, and are under constant pressure from managers to “just get on with it.” The prevailing sentiment is that FIS does not genuinely care about its people. Well done chief of people!

And yet, we’re setting a goal to increase client NPS by 10 points. We’re still in negative territory the ambition appears to be to frustrate clients slightly less, rather than meaningfully improve their experience. Well done chief of clients!

Houston is modernizing the buildings based on the San Ramon model and we promise you will only move to the unassigned model in a modernized space. You’re going to love it.

What is the mood knowing they broke that commitment and are now awkwardly and cowardly backtracking by possibly bringing the Hess building into play?

Btw, MN was the decider to force everyone into unassigned. Now RB is trying to clean up his mess.

My contact center position got eliminated at the end of last year and I’m wondering if any of the other leadership positions were eliminated as well?

Confirmed layoffs for San Antonio KYC, entire Small business KYC under Sharon is gone Wednesday march 4th it's about 40+ people. If your under her use your unplanned now. I'm positive there is other departments also being affected in San Antonio HQ but not sure where else.

Leaders are clueless. Everything is a priority as everyone needs to save themselves. No support from your supervisor. Only burnout remains with us. Layoff or rebadging dates are mystery.

Save yourself and find an opportunity outside. Otherwise you will also be thrown out as Shankar's photo from cafeteria. Don't get used in place where is absolute no clarity. Invest only on yourself

Why in the world do they come in throwing their weight around, expecting that to change anything? They also have to be the most disorganized group! Hey, we are doing this this way. Then the next day they come in screaming like children who didn’t get their candy saying “I want it this way!” . Make up your mind because no one even thinks you know how you want it! While we are in first shift why in the world do they have supervisors under the en that work a completely different shift? Then write your yearly’s and mid-years? Fortunately, I have a boss that fights for me but some other shifts are not that fortunate! First shift is completely useless other than they are too full of themselves and want to be heard every morning at pass down.
The issue is now coming in yelling and changing your mind no one can take them seriously. For a huge organization it’s not very organized at all! This by the way is why you don’t hire interns out of college and put them in leadership roles, leadership has to be taught or they will fail to lead properly!

As a C-Suite executive, we can mention him on the board. Srini Krish is a prime example of how Fiserv only seems to elevate mediocre or even poor leaders. He’s sat in charge while infrastructure and development has sunk to record lows, driving away hundreds of long term customers. Now he’s in charge of even more? Please make it make sense.

Just learned some director in R&D don’t even have a BS degree, is this the new PepsiCo Way?

Bank needs happy employees to build profit. Why care about producing quality work? They dont care about us. Missed risk? Oh well. Unhappy customers? Oh well. Lost accounts? Oh well. Because guess what? U stripped us of dignity and respect and comp. What's left to care about? We will just buy our time until they eventually cut all of us. Let em think their highly bloated team of managers and leaders will carry them to victory and profits.

Take it from me....JUST go to work each day (virtually that is) and "come home." Meet metrics and percentages. DON'T do what I did. I went above and beyond for the SNP department. I did all the stretch assignments....SME.....instructed the new hire classes....did the precepting. I pretty much did my manager's job (but that is another story to tell.) I STILL got a 3. Do not let it break your spirit like it did mine. Leadership DOESN'T care and you shouldn't either. I got confirmation from management that if you do your job and meet your numbers, you will get a 3 each year. Don't be a fool like I was.

As a legacy Lexmark employee the last few months feel like my parents got a divorce and we were left with the dysfunctional family; whom parents lie to themselves, go on spending sprees and are barely able to pay the rent at the end of the month.

Do you guys have any Reorg Ideas? Let's share them here. I'll start: Fire C-Level folks and replace them with folks who are competent.

For taking our well performing stock value from the high of $179 to an even more winning $119...

No show at the sales kickoff, sorry commercial summit in Orlando. Nasser Khodri doing all the talking. Stephanie relegated to a 2 minute video measage at the end of the keynote session. Apparently she really wanted to be here but it wasn’t possible because she has to do the earnings call tomorrow. I guess the FIS private jet must be out of service, along with all motorised transport between here and Jacksonville…

VP Finance and Strategy. OMG he was a total buffoon and bootlicker.

it hurts to watch what's goin on right now. a few terrible hires slowly ruined everything. once a place of pride + a standard of excellence.... unless BD ends favoritism, nepotism and stops the kickback culture, it will keep rotinng inside. period... there is no real revival and for me the damage feels intentional. we are all silent, and that makes us complicit. Too many so called leaders are useless.... they would fail as any type of a contributor... now BD calls that leadership!!!!!! what a circus...

Did impacted people only receive an email telling them they're laid off? If it's true, shame on this leadership for not even pretending to give a damn about any of us.

PSA ... if your manager is a good guy/gal Try not to sc--w them with poor scores !
Save them for Excom members !

HAHAHA those paltry $ coming our way and called merits will be embarrassing to the industry

Dell is meant to be broken in the stock market. Everything feels like a Dell crash

hmmm

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-23/paypal-attracts-takeover-interest-after-stock-slump

PayPal Holdings Inc., the digital payments pioneer, is attracting takeover interest from potential buyers after a stock slide wiped out almost half of its value, according to people familiar with the matter.

The San Jose, California-based company has fielded meetings with banks amid unsolicited interest from suitors, the people said. At least one large rival is looking at the whole company, while some other suitors are only interested in certain PayPal assets, the people said, asking not to be identified because the information is private.
Buyer interest in PayPal is still at a preliminary stage and may not lead to a transaction, the people cautioned. A representative for PayPal declined to comment.

Founded in the late 1990s, PayPal was an early mover in the world of digital payments. But the company now finds itself in a rut with its customers increasingly turning to alternative ways to pay for things.

PayPal’s shares have fallen around 46% in New York trading over the last 12 months, giving the company a market value of about $38.4 billion.

Current board chair Enrique Lores is due to take up the role as president and CEO of PayPal on March 1. He will be tasked with getting to grips with a company that’s lost market share to rivals such as Apple Pay and Google Pay and failed to modernize its payments technologies.

Former CEO Alex Chriss was ousted earlier this month after his turnaround plan fell short. The company’s fourth-quarter profit and revenue missed analysts’ estimates, according to results for the period that also showed a continued slowdown in payment volume.

Who the heck are these people? The result was 73...for real...??? Do these people hate their friends or did so few respond that some c-suite group was able to skew the results?

Does anyone know what’s going on today? Executives are all onsite and leaders have hinted to fires going on

So the leaders who were rewarded for delivering the 180 and 120 team scores will be fired for delivering a 64 and 50, right? Right? What a joke, if this were a Japanese run company they would have quit out of shame.

Remember when they claimed to be "A business of csring "

Why is everyone in Kyle L’s Org a Vice President? That’s excessive.

https://cdn.f5.com/product/bugtracker/ID2137653.html

2,137,365 reported bugs/flaws/errors/failures with F5 products. The Execs have to be proud of the milestone when they went over the 2 million mark. Bugs fixed - just a fraction.

I've lost my best people consistently over the past two years. I understand that talent comes at a cost, but eliminating it is strategically unsound. We're not just watching institutional knowledge disappear, we're dismantling the very core that holds teams together. Leadership may see short-term savings, but this criterion for cuts will end up costing us far more.

Leadership keeps stripping away every reason I, or anyone else, would have to stay motivated.

… between the weekend of Bandy 🤡, CB chuck, our CMO, our sales-operations-but-don’t-know-anything-head and the other EC members. Counting their money. Putting the future of the company and any thought about employees at the back of their mind. Making up a new talk-track about how everything is working, failing at every ethical measure they can, showing the world their lack of moral compass or fibre

….. and the employees who have been let-down, disrespected, kept in the dark, miscommunicated to, not sure what happens next, constant feels of dread, or knowing in that this week is the last week here, or spending precious family time looking for a new role as the Kool Aid has been drunk and people seem to think Lexmark will save us. Xerox will go bankrupt because of Lex acquisition - Xerox has been around for 100+ years but add Lexmark and the down projection accelerates.

Leader here. Let me say this loud enough for everyone to hear:

Your performance ranking is not impacted by your performance.

Read that again!!

You are stack ranked with your peers. Leaders are allotted a certain number of 4s and 5s per team. Everyone else is given 3 unless you are on a CAP or PIP.

The only time someone is given more 4s or 5s is if there’s extra 4s and 5s available rolling up under your leader; AKA a higher team than yours su-ks and they don’t have enough to fill the spots. They are then passed to whichever team has the biggest brown nosing leader.

Do not go above and beyond because it doesn’t matter. End of the day, unless you are teachers pet, you’re not getting higher than a 3.

Decades of experience with this company and the only reason I stay is because I can’t find anything else comparable in wage. I have been forced to give exemplary employees a 3 due to not being allotted enough.

Qualcomm needs a comprehensive organizational restructuring to stay competitive in the rapidly evolving semiconductor industry. The company should streamline its structure, reduce layers of management, and build a leaner, faster decision-making organization. This may require a workforce reduction of around 30%, particularly focusing on eliminating unproductive senior and staff engineers who are sitting there for years, and aligning and recruiting new graduate talents with future growth areas.

The leadership team must be refreshed with a forward-looking CEO who deeply understands the future of semiconductors including AI acceleration, edge computing, advanced node design, chiplet architectures, automotive platforms, and custom silicon. The new strategy should prioritize innovation speed, stronger execution discipline, and accountability at all levels.

Key additional priorities should include:
Reducing bureaucratic overhead and simplifying reporting structures
Investing aggressively in AI-driven chip design and next-generation architectures
Strengthening partnerships in automotive, IoT, and data center markets
Improving cost discipline and capital allocation efficiency
Retaining and rewarding high-performing engineers while upskilling talent in critical future technologies
Encouraging an ownership-driven, performance-based culture

A leaner, technology-focused, and execution-oriented Qualcomm can regain stronger market leadership and shareholder confidence.

Worked here a while and still really don’t understand what Lead to One is. Is it the the rolling up of all the cignahealthcare lines of business up into the Evernorth brand? None of the corporate buzzwords have really described it

The recent hires coming through are really questionable. Some managers are just bringing in friends who aren't qualified for the roles. Hard to watch when actual talent is sitting out there looking for work.

The culture here has shifted so much. There's this constant political game now, with people deflecting blame just to stay safe. They brought in outside hires who brought their own drama with them. Some folks have been here forever but are in roles that don't fit. Nothing seems to work anymore.

Between the constant cost cutting and the obvious favoritism, this place is tough to navigate. If you're not in with the right people, your work just doesn't seem to matter. Leadership feels disconnected and the culture has turned pretty toxic. I wouldn't recommend coming here based on what I've seen.

I'm back in Risk and it seems to be worse this time around. Anyone else experiencing the chaos and toxicity from the top down. Everyone seems to be trying to leave. Is this just where I am?

Xbox has new leaders today, now that Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond are out — and you’d be forgiven for assuming that means yet another round of layoffs and shuttered studios, especially one day after Sony jettisoned a beloved developer.

https://www.theverge.com/games/882377/microsoft-says-todays-xbox-shakeup-doesnt-mean-game-studio-layoffs