#product

I can’t understand why the company is launching all these products that end up being duds. Products that have very little AUM in them after 1-2 years and where they likely will not grow to reach scale. It ends up being a drain on resources and time and effort from various teams. Why? Just to keep people in a job and to use certain products as scapegoats for not winning.

Sales team probably said they could sell it. Product team likely did analysis to say it could be a winner. Management must’ve signed off on it.

Where is the accountability?

One of the most surprising things that when Opentext acquired MF it included Novell groupwise. It’s been a secret winner ! It sells more than enterprise cyber

I genuinely want to understand what's going on with CDO. She regularly brings sales people to speak at her town halls, the CEO directs AI roadmap questions to her instead of the product engineering leader, and right before the new CEO takes over she picks up yet another business unit. She came in as a operations leader, but now it feels like every strategically important BU reports into her.
At what point do we stop viewing this as a series of unrelated decisions and start seeing it as a deliberate concentration of leadership? Is the company effectively positioning her as the executive responsible for product, strategy, operations, and business execution all at once?
It's starting to look less like a traditional functional leader and more like someone accumulating power across the company, leading to a centralized executive structure similar to what existed under Mark's leadership, where significant influence and decision-making authority was concentrated under a single leader.
Time will tell whether this is the right approach. But given the company's experience with one man leadership, it's fair to question whether we're heading down a familiar path.

If you manufacture watches... or honestly ANYTHING that runs on batteries or any kind of fuel... why on earth would you photograph your product sitting on a pile of lemons?
You do realize lemons are basically the universal symbol for something defective, broken, disappointing, unreliable, and headed straight back to customer service, right?
Really unfortunate creative direction, guys. Somewhere there was a meeting where a whole team approved this. Yes. That turnaround of the company should be happening any day now.

Windows K2. Show through action it's not just a sad joke. You won't. You can't. It's just lip service.

Windows 11 is still hijacking users' data into the cloud with its latest updates and without consent. What idiocy.

Anything good coming from VBG products that will generate good sales? (Or any current products showing potential?)

Seems like AT&T and T-Mo are putting out products - what do we have that's got potential?

Hard to tell if the AI Connect stuff is real.

Nike just kept moving forward for last 40 years at 90 MPH.

the issue with Nike is that they are too big. They are in every aspect of sports business.

Akin to adidas in 70s, Nike is too many things!! License product, performance product, non performance product, accessories, skateboarding, boutique retros, winter sports, team sports on and on.
Perhaps the winning strategy is cut out category that does not help Nike and not doing a good job as we speak or there is no future in it.

adidas was in so many categories including perfumes LOL in the 1970s. And when Mr. adidas passed the whole thing came crumbling down and gave Nike a hole big enough drive train by. Let's learn from mistake, other people's mistake.

streamline your offerings!!!

Bruh, if you get the chance to have a segment done on national TV at least show some of the upcoming product/newness we have coming out? We have that right? Right?

For the past 18 months all we have been hearing about is all the newness coming down the pipeline yet I as an internal employee have yet to see anything. And I don’t think a limited run of the Mind slippers are going to cut it. It’s great that we showed the campus and NSLR, but if nothing is coming out of either of them, what’s the point?

Really wish we were in a different situation.

Why would we go on a news show and cry vs showing some new hot product that will revolutionize the market?
Oh crud, that right, we don’t have hot new product or commercials. Thanks product and marketing….

More product line sales this year?

I am hearing today will be layoffs focused on QA and redundant engineers. And the scrum and product layoffs will continue for another two weeks. Anyone else heard it? Kind of worried.

Some major product line sales are being considered as the demand shifts towards the profitable and relatively low cost drone business. .
Electronic warfare, (avionics) is on the chopping block. No need to retool or retrain. Old sites like Clifton and Rochester will likely close in the coming year.

FKNG HILARIOUS!

The 10s of millions Dell spent on this "ODW" bs and the countless layoffs they did in order to fund it and THIS is what it looks like?

My minivvan has a similar interface and that was only 120k. Except it's not leggy af or clunky and doesn't take 5000 clicks to get where I want to go!

Morale is at all time low, teams are divided, some with connections travel to WDF and Palo Alto for All in on AI workshops and the rest become mere spectators of what’s next to come without any stake in decisions.

Joule for Work rebranding of Joule Studio was a big flop in the 2 demo sessions, not fit for Sapphire launch, buggy, slow and complicated like a typical SAP product. SAP has mastered the art of making simple things complicated and buying new companies to keep the revenue going.

This house of cards will fall soon and all the old investments will go bust from wdf oldies.

Love this model. Such a great brand name!

Do we not have the d-mbest Product Marketing group in all the world? That entire group should be fired / WFRd for this colossal embarrassment. They flushed millions / billions in brand equity down the toilet. So Stupid!!

I can’t even begin to tell you the amount of people that tell me that they don’t wear Nikes because they run to slim. And each time I just nod my head and say I agree. I do wonder how much more business we’d campfire by making a simple change like making our sizing more inclusive. My own family doesn’t even use my discount because they all have wide shoes and Nike doesn’t fit them😂

There’s low hanging fruit to be had all around, yet we overlook it to try to make these big statements that seemly haven’t landed in recent years.

Even no brand Chinese products on Amazon have better quality.

Interesting ELT announcement and interesting times ahead. Wow we’re really doing this ...

It's a perfect example of what's wrong with Apple, all they do is make these worthless cosmetic changes ( like this stupid liquid glass cr-p that makes it hard to read the screen) that add zero value or functionality for the user, all iOS 26 does is drain the battery faster. Time to switch to android.

But can we actually make some good product and get it to market in under 2 years?
Can we stop the embarrassing marketing blunders like the World Cup sleeve fu-k up and the Boston marathon disaster?
Operating costs will look better but sales don’t lie.
Hoping to be laid off as this place seems clueless as f and I’ve been here for 20 years.
Feeling for the folks laid off that will suffer.

Business is tanking. Products are not inspiring. Leaders are performative

Regardless of the reason (short squeeze, car sales volume, etc.) It's a bad look that hertz is at $7.00.
Coming soon Gillybean will brag about how strong Q1 results, but core rental is still under performing.
Product team got bounced from Sandipshit and now report to Dreary CIO. That means the legacy of nearly Ded Ned is gone.

The latest in bonkers, after many similar people decisions ... Global , and primary census based product and apps are going to shutdown/replaced by a substandard version of mobile and pc app being marketed internally by technology and engineering as the next big thing. Supposedly this was going to be launched in the end of 2025 but delays and incomplete knowhow across domains has pushed it back repeatedly. Even now, it's incomplete and does not match the previous solution, atleast from Product perspective. But they have let go of every SME and will just roll with whatever... Clients to start moving with competitors soon, botched up long established solution, dissolution imminent.

I've been at this company for ages, and I've worked with all kinds of different teams. Even besides the top C-suite folks, there are some total deadweight employees that really should get fired or transferred to another department — especially the ones that are in charge of all our core stuff. I already sent a long email to a handful of C-level execs and the new CEO calling out these bad apples. These je-ks are holding us back from building really good products.

…isn’t it time to eliminate Integrated Services and the wasted salaries of MA and CM, neither of whom have ever delivered anything of value to Ford?

Surest is a junk product and the division is run by imbeciles. The news I picked up on today is it's about to get hit

Any other teams having the same experience? This is nuts, I worked for a few large product orgs over last 2 decades and I've never seen it nuts like this. Oh well, maybe it's just my team, dont know.

From product I see, adidas is about to pull the ki-l shot and eliminate Nike from performance running.

Not to mention legit running brands with top innovation ASICS, Brooks, Saucony with Hoka, New Balance and ON taking casual running.

Heard from a senior leader an announcement will be made next week. Products and roles changing. Anyone else heard anything?

When new vehicle covered by the free subscription service was stolen

This VP guy just travels to events, can't spell SQL if he wanted to and is so far disconnected from business but somehow keeps getting promoted and all he does is travel to all exotic destinations with zero value. Because of how useless he is, he's also hired a bunch of useless analysts who just add deadweight to product teams- I don't blame them as they lack direction and leadership. How does this VP guy still have a job?

Lot of management being moved to other products instead of laying them off. Wish they did the same to ICs who have real skills.

So is it officially gone or what? I’d rather be told it’s discontinued than be told it’s still waiting for approval.

Does anyone have any information about this new product in the pipeline I’ve been hearing about? Seems like it could help the stock price.

A former high-flying teammate recently moved into a commercial leader role for Proxxima. I'm not very familiar with the product or its business case - from what I can tell it's meant to be a polymeric replacement for rebar?
What kind of impact can a HiPo make in that business?

I write this as a user of QuickBooks, not as an employee. I'm an accountant. QuickBooks has been my lifeblood. Over the past 5 years, this software has been absolutely destroyed. What was simple has become complicated. What was efficient has become slow, clunky, and unresponsive. The A.I. features are an absolute joke, introducing so many errors that have to be manually fixed. The interface screen used to so intuitive, but is now a confusing mess. Function buttons that were on the front screen are now buried under 3 levels of menus. And glitches... now so many glitches. Transactions are lost. Saved items miraculously disappear. Many of my clients have experienced payroll tax issues.

You can tell the coding was outsourced to engineers in India. Total cr-p design.

Customer service is an absolute joke. Foreign people who can barely speak english reading canned responses from their "Intuit Customer Service Book".

This company is going down. They destroyed a great product. Outsource your engineering to a 3rd world country and you'll get 3rd world results.

The all aluminum, 90% recyclable Apple Mac Neo is going to give the Dell low and midrange PCs and Chromebooks a run for their money this year when it comes to the much sought after education market.

So it's a record quarter for Dell. Fiscal Numbers are good and all that. I keep hearing from both Glassdoor and here that there's so much wrong with ISG and CSG. Idrac su-ks. Power scale su-ks. Objectscale su-ks. Dell networking su-ks. Telco su-ks. Dell says EMC su-ks and EMC says Dell su-ks. This su-ks. That su-ks.

Now I completely get that gutting the employee count, not keeping up with the inflation does do some help with the fiscal position of the company where they can showcase more dollars, raise the stocks, etc. however I can't believe that that alone is a factor of a healthy fiscal quarter. There has to be genuinely good products that the company does produce to actually meet or exceed the expectations of the quarter right ?

So it's not technically a 100% trash company like some posts make it out to be ?

If it's not actually bad, then what areas does Dell do well, realistically speaking ? What are some actual positives ?

I'm not HR or Jeff or Michael. I'm just a regular I-7 in ISG, late 20s in age, trying to get some sliver of optimism in this mad world.

We can do tech layoffs, that’s fine. Tech is too bloated.
Unfortunately that’s not going to fix Nike.
We need some hot product and strong marketing. Until that happens, nothing even begins to get better.
Ugly shoes with ba--s on the bottom or Jordan’s with 3 soles are not going to cut the mustard.