Or is he just going to be the remote CEO we never met who implements a hybrid work schedule

This is the company you work for. You get paid for the service you provide. Stop getting emotionally invested in what's going to happen to HV. Some of you seem to care more than the leadership does. They know this is all about the money, for the... — read more 

Whatever I was doing, no matter how engaged I was, trying to add value, to stand out with my work - I never got a promotion. I won't even try again, I've been working the bare minimum for a while and I'm looking for another job. I would just like... — read more 

Leadership meeting in London today confirmed

Forget management. There’s maybe 1-2 folks in each org who have their role understood. And they are probably on their way out. This is depressingly shocking and embarrassing.

A company that is transparent is a company that enables employees to understand the company's mission, to trust leadership more, and to start contributing to their ideas. HV is not that kind of company. Unfortunately. They obviously think that... — read more 

With no pay raises for most employees, it refreshing to learn that our leaders aren’t suffering. The average Hitachi Vantara executive compensation is $220,478 a year. The median estimated compensation for executives at Hitachi Vantara including base... — read more 

Confirmed.

Here we go again. HV just acquired another worthless cloud company. This time it’s for a four year old company with no financial information to be shared with us. Trust me when I say that this will be another blunder after they peel away the layers... — read more 

More cognizant people on the way. Suspect they will lay off legacy Hitachi solutions and services people still remaining and replace with GL and C people in the coming months. Hearing that GL folks will also be let go at the top levels as they... — read more 

Hi ho Silver !!! The buying of small cloud companies for an undetermined sum of money continues. This time it’s for a company barely four years old and claims to have over 1000 clients. It all BS. We’ve seen this movie before. Now we will learn how... — read more 

Notification and first big updates were sent. split by country and state.

Does it seem to you that the big problem actually lies in their ego? They are literally blinded by it. Almost all of their decisions are ego-driven. I am almost convinced that they think they are doing a remarkable job in while at the same time... — read more 

I am absolutely not surprised that everyone who has talent and skillset is leaving here in droves. Nepotism seems to have never been a bigger problem? I’ve been here a long time and there’s always been nepotism, let's not fool ourselves, but now it... — read more 

GFK and Susan Backer this week told the business that 26% of the sales force have served notice to leave. Simply incredible ! In the US 27 people have resigned, EMEA 15 have or will do soon. What kind of sh-t show is this leadership team running??

I’m confused. In 2021 what is vantara? It’s not a leading storage provider anymore, it’s not a digital company, it’s not got its own products as it just rebrands other hitachi work, it’s not a good sales led company, and it’s not good at delivery... — read more 

Has anyone seen or heard of a HV Cloud customer? After years of buying small cloud companies, there has been no substantial revenue. The smoke and mirror show will soon end when the leases dry up on the legacy products which will not be renewed.

How did the company manage to attract talented people before, and now it is no longer able to do so? Someone made a good observation of this - HV could not brag about excellent technology or smooth processes even before, but it managed to attract... — read more 

Heard this week in a leadership meeting that storage isn’t being produced and legacy HDS is being sold off. How could this be accurate? What, we’d just tell all our clients “sorry yall but we done care no more?”. Just doesn’t make sense. — read more 

Discuss

This company can almost no longer retain anyone who has specific skills and who is talented. Pay is certainly no longer a reason for someone like that to stay here a little longer. Still, pay isn’t the only thing that makes a significant competitive... — read more 

Hitachi Vantara is ahead of the market. Hardware, application, services and cloud readiness. Few can compete. It took a change to make a change and things are on the move. In the best way.

As of July 1st of 2021, the Hitachi Vantara 401K plan will merge into Hitachi 401K. Dropping the Vantara name may mean more than just a name change. Hitachi One may just be merging Hitachi Vantara into the Global Logic platform shedding off it’s... — read more 

Shouldn’t a manager be a role model who inspires, who is trusted, who has integrity and is also a hard worker? I would not like to name anyone, but I wonder if there are such managers here at all? I don't know, maybe there are managers who have... — read more 

This $9 Billion deal makes front page news where as Hitachi’s $9.6 Billion barely moved the media needle. Just goes to show you folks that this company is a big joke in the IT world and can’t be taken seriously.

All of them.

Isn't it getting ridiculous that they always point the finger at employees for everything that is wrong in this company? For all their bad moves, we are to blame. It is a terrible way of managing, that is, it depicts that this company does not... — read more 

Has anyone ever seen GK physically in the US? His constant WebEx presentations can be done from anywhere in this world. With his close ties to Japan and the shifting of operations to Mexico City, Costa Rica, Poland and India from the US, it would be... — read more 

I recall there was talk from GK that the company wide bonus scheme didn't hit its metrics but they also understood with covid that delivering the numbers we did was still a not bad performance. and loads of people where let go. did that bonus pot... — read more 

News is that HV hired a strategist to devise their next strategy. But its not just any strategist, its an AI powered strategist. You folks don't believe me?? Here is the link, refresh it and it will provide you the next multi million dollar IT... — read more 

I am very much in a hurry to leave this company as soon as possible, but of course I do my research carefully so that I do not happen to find myself again in a company that has bad management like this one. I'm really interested in how those who are... — read more 

I always knew I was underpaid at HV. When I became aware that I would never get a raise, I decided to get out of here and guess what.... for much less work I was paid much, much more. I was surprised when I was offered that amount and only then did... — read more 

Why are people surprised that so many are walking away from HV? Both from management and regular employees? You don't need to be too smart to see that there's no future here, at least not if you want a decent job with decent pay and benefits and... — read more 

People have been leaving GSC on a weekly basis. Francesco Russo was among the many that have left this sinking ship. There has been virtually no dialogue from our leaders since that very lame Town Hall meeting. Susan M is probably brushing up on... — read more 

and watch this youTube ..... "when you buy a ferrari after retirement" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHgCP_gHOuU You can decide if you want to .... ( "buy a ferrari after retirement" ) !!!

Someone said it very well, HV could soon become a case study. Maybe it could be a study on Management practices to avoid or how to try to maintain a top–heavy organizational structure for years. The conclusion would be that sometimes one has to... — read more 

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2021/04/21/hitachi-vantara-cuts-65-santa-clara-hires-3-execs.html -more layoffs confirmed so we can hire 3 new Execs.

Is entirely prerecorded. most of the speakers are literally just reading their lines, and not even doing a good job doing that. SMH

So many people are wasting their energy on worrying about layoffs instead of using that energy to prepare for that very possibility. Layoffs are not as scary if you have all your ducks in a row. Make sure your resume is updated, send out some... — read more 

When we keep laying keep people off?