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Last minute meeting invites went out for tomorrow from Hari "the axman" govind. Zoom call for 0930. Rumors of inperson 0900 meetings, but cant confirm. Anyone have more info?

How do you backtrace someone on here and get their IP address?

GI just laid off people across the org in tech

Please post which department you’re in if you were impacted by the layoffs so others in those areas have an idea..

Examples;

• Finance, Demoted
• Tech, ISP
• Marketing, ISP

I got laid off and got no off boarding information today. My manager told me to hand in my laptop and expect to get my paycheck end of the month. I would like to get all my HR stuff like 401k details and my paystubs

If I were to be laid off, I'd return them but unwillingly. I have 2 systems from Dell, a corporate phone, and a few other items issued to me. I know for a fact that Dell can simply de-activate your machine's access to VPN's and such and it wouldn't exactly be difficult to wipe the computer clean and start fresh, if you wanted to.

The two systems I have are likely worth a combined $1100 at MOST. The phone is an iphone 10x, which obviously would have it's service cut but, you could theoretically put service onto it yourself (out of your pocket.) That phone is worth maybe 150.. The other device I have is worth closer to 1k I think and is the only thing I'd want to keep if possible. I'd say only about 100 people in the entire company have this device. I'd tell you what it is but I'd give myself away as to what org I'm in and what department I'm in..

But, what if a laid off person was to just not return their computer, badge, etc...?

Why do Clover Engineers in Sunnyvale get $350k a year?

When will EMEA reorg start? Aren't they supposed to still go through the Tech reorg?

Title: She quit her six figure big tech dream job after burnout from AI and layoff fears, and found more happiness in uncertainty
Company/Org: Atlassian
News Source: The Economic Times
Location: Unknown, US
Summary: A former Atlassian product marketing manager left Big Tech amid burnout and job insecurity tied to AI reshaping roles, describing a deliberate pivot to flexibility and lower stress.
URL:https://m.economictimes.com/magazines/panache/she-quit-her-six-figure-big-tech-dream-job-after-burnout-from-ai-and-layoff-fears-and-found-more-happiness-in-uncertainty/articleshow/123412371.cms

Was informed there would be another huge round of layoffs in mid Sept. Is this in Tech?

Had anybody heard anything about techs going to a core week schedule. Rumors kicking around that all techs are going to 5 8 hour days so that Intel doesn’t have to pay out overtime.

“I don’t want to get rid of a bunch of people right now,” Robbins told CNBC last week, stressing that AI was meant to boost productivity, not reduce headcount. “I just want our engineers that we have today to innovate faster and be more productive. That gives us a competitive advantage.”

TECH
Silicon Valley tech giants to cut hundreds of Bay Area jobs AGAIN!!!

This is the demonstration that an employee working for a conglomerate like this count less than nothing, it’s just a record in a database, no matter is performance, pretty sad and cold given the myriad of talented people. I hope someone at top level reads this, but Oracle is well known for being a stable company with less than average salaries. People genuinely made this trade off, if stability is not the case anymore then why staying in Oracle. I know this would count less than nothing, but a bit of transparency is somehow due to the hard work!

Bumping this up for visibility. OP: @bk+1k2xjqvcz

Based on what people have been reporting, it looks like there were more layoffs today. Does anyone know if these will continue throughout the week? Last week was already rough. Wishing everyone the best of luck.

Because they’re cr—py?

This info I from several posters on LinkedIn:
Splunk and General Engineers, Product Data Scientists at Duo, Webex- Product, Engineering and Customer Experience.

👉Other Rumoured impacts: Technical Assistance Center(TAC), Appdynamics, Meraki, Wireless Services, Public Sales/ International.

👉Webex losing ground to Microsoft Teams. Integration Challenges with Sp--k. These two units are described as Death Spiral.

👉Severance is Reportedly Minimal for those with less than 10 years of Service.

https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k2rztnsw

"Oracle blood bath is happening big time starting from yesterday (8/and still going on as of today. Oracle Cloud (OCI), Netsuite, VB, Jet, My SQL and other areas majorly affected.
No official numbers yet but around 10%.
Affected across roles:

H1Bs and US citizens
Employees based in India and in the US
Employees at all levels up to SVP
Low performers and high performers
New joiners and employees with 20 years at Oracle
Engineers and Project Managers"

Intel says it will retreat from planned projects in Germany and Poland, end its assembly and test operations in Costa Rica, and finish 2025 with just around 75,000 “core employees” in total.

Intel employed 109,800 people at the end of 2024, of which 99,500 were “core employees,” so the company is pushing out around 24,000 people this year — shrinking Intel by roughly one-quarter.

https://www.theverge.com/news/713388/intel-q2-2025-leave-germany-poland-costa-rica

We had SEC in early May, and GT in early June.
Sure we still have EMEA folks on a different schedule, however there's been no other announcements. Especially in enabling functions, which usually follow tech.

Does anyone know when would EMEA tech will be told about the apparent lay-offs?
As EMEA is on different timeline!

I don’t know how many of you sell any client systems with ProSupport but nearly all of US support has been moved to Panama and Costa Rica. The only reason there’s any US agents left is because of Federal contracts but I’m sure they’ll find a way around that. Feels like deceptive marketing but they changed it to say ‘In region’ now.

I’ve also had some sales agents contact me about exchanges. You can’t get a system exchange if you receive a dead unit within the first 30 days. They have to go to care (good luck) or get a service call before even being considered. The goal is no exchanges at all even when warranted. They did a ‘cost of dsat’ analysis and determined it wasn’t worth a good survey to spend the money on it.

I feel powerless at trying to ‘save the sale’ from tech support sometimes because of our stupid processes.

Just random tech support venting. AMA

What a waste, especially Emea. They don’t solve issues, just whine to global support to fix small things they think are causing the sky to fall. No big picture perspective and too much bloat in leadership. Zero value unless you consider getting your day bummed with their snooty, bi--hy attitude and low IQ threats to escalate their single minded woes to leadership enjoyable.

Yesterday almost 200 people globally in Cargill Global IT (Now called DT&D Digital Technology & Data) were laid off. This included early career / first/second year employees as well. The goal is to replace them with DEI workers out of Atlanta or India/Costa Rica and by lowering the standards on job postings in order to obtain them.

They are more than 2 years into Jennifer Hartsock's tenure as CIO / CIDO and almost every conceivable metric has gotten significantly worse, as a once great place to work has done a complete 180. My guess is her and her leadership team may not be around for much longer.

When did we become a tech company that is not led by innovation but entirely by what is deemed acceptable by our accounting department? They are the ones who make all the important decisions here and it's becoming more blatantly obvious day in day out in our results. Nobody is thinking about future profits, just what we can get right here, right now. It's very annoying that people who know nothing about our core business can wield this much power.