This is this most brokenselffootshooting company i have ever been a part of . What have you witnessed on your team since you have been here past-present? For myself- harassment, nepotism, managers sleeping with employees, and professional... — read more 

Is there any company anyone can think that has had 5- FIVE- different CEOs in less than 5 years ?

3 CEO's in a year! Consistently missing targets! Customers moving to competitors. Sadly the problem with this company is that the few smart people that existed have all left or were made to leave. Insecure, incompetent, non performers of the past... — read more 

How is the new guy doing? Heard there will be lot of changes... which is not a surprise. What are you guys hearing

Yet another big round of layoffs coming in September. I know we are impacted in California. Anyone have more info?

The employees are being told that they need to stay until March 31,2021 before they can receive the package. With the call center in Costa Rica and the support center moving to Mexico City, there will not be much left in the US except for some... — read more 

Just like the last few years, this is the beginning of yet another era as one era ends. We will see HV getting stupefied all over again just like what happened in the many expensive yet failed... — read more 

Is HR broken at Hitachi

Lol

Brian, you were given the keys to a decent car, not great but a good car. You then drove it off a cliff. You ruined a number of careers and lives due to your gross incompetence. Seriously, can you claim a single success after you were promoted from... — read more 

Over 80 for EMEA, over 30 for CMT: 20 in Germany will have to leave

Not sure about numbers though, but layoffs for sure.

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2020/03/16/tech-job-cuts-jolt-silicon-valley-companies-cisco-hitachi-vantara/ is this real

HV is in a downward spiral from which likely can not recover. They made ambitious attempts to enter complex software spaces like industrial IoT without leadership that grasped basic software engineering principles. This knowledge is largely lacking... — read more 

And it has nothing to do with skill set, position, salary, etc. Don't use logic. They've been laying off small groups of 20 or so and they haven't advertised it so if you don't know one of them or someone else that knows one of the layoff people... — read more 

Another layoff has been announced today among Hitachi Consulting members, mainly in the UK (40 - 50 people). No details yet unfortunately regarding the specific individuals impacted. So basically, Vantara acquired Consulting and the first thing... — read more 

Total BS. I was driving revenue and was cut when others didn’t contribute anything.

Why do they have to make it last for days or even weeks sometimes? I see no good reason for it other than to torture us and make us stress even more. But this will backfire on them. The morale is already low and it's getting even lower every day -... — read more 

Most of my team was let go today. Moral has been down for the past few months between key players leaving due to anticipated layoffs or those riding out the storm. More layoffs to come this week. Not sure the storm will be over anytime soon. Too... — read more 

Apologies to my Hitachi Vantara colleagues who have been impacted by the layoffs this week. This is an awful week but we've seen this coming since Brian Householder and Scott Kelly's failed Project Mirai "digital transformation" program led by... — read more 

Several sources have confirmed that layoffs are coming next week in the marketing org. Managers were asked to cut 15% from their budgets, including headcount, several weeks ago and submit their plans for approval.

Hitachi’s Oracle team can help organizations with implementations, upgrades and migrations, as well as hosting and application managed services. We are also Oracle’s first partner in their global IoT initiative and a Cloud Excellence Implementer. — read more 

Please rate your Quarterly Daytime talk show for Jan 16 2020.

Any concrete info on the rumors that there will be more layoffs in the second part of December and in January? I see that people are mentioning those rumors on this board and I also heard them a work. Is there any truth to them and , if so, what... — read more 

Layoffs have begun in earnest. Quarterly targets haven’t been met and cuts have been made across the board. Sales are limited to existing customers which has been dwindling. Look for massive cuts end of this quarter or beginning of 2020. Start... — read more 

As I can see, the rumors are the layoffs in customer support in the US are done for now for now and that the brunt of the layoffs has been shifted to Europe and Asia. Has it already started? If this is really the case, is it too early to know the... — read more 

Do we have any more info on layoffs? Somebody said it's in EMEA - is it limited to it, though? How bad will it get? Come on folks, somebody must know something!

Layoffs happening in Customer service this quarter, it was announced yesterday, that there will be layoff and re-balancing of headcounts, it will be CE's taking the hit.

How is it possible we laid off "X" number of employees to fit into a smaller building that was never full... to continuously doing layoffs ..leaving... every floor of the HQ far from filled....yet.. we are still celebrating "Wins"... this is... — read more 

Lay offs in the UK and US as company moves these positions to "high value" locations ie Poland and India.

More info on the merger is available... — read more 

What are everybody's thoughts on this? I'm thinking consolidation layoffs will be brutal - not to mention all the collateral layoffs they'll sneak in despite having nothing to do with the actual integration of the companies. I think we are... — read more 

In the span of one month ...we have let go of our COO... who's background was .. being in charge of .. HR????... then our new head of HR... was let go after.... one quarter?????..we are on a soft hiring freeze and now FINALLY the company is... — read more 

Secret hiring freeze order came down today. The word “realignment” was heard. So called leadership is acting strange and has been for a few months. Leaders seem withdrawn and defensive with a lot of hiding in their offices or being entirely absent... — read more 

Any HItachi Vantara News or rumors ?

Still not seeing anything tangible in the way of roadmap and strategy. Concerned that with the new fiscal year that a new round of layoffs are coming and internal buzz/concern is picking up.

As part of this series, I thought I'd add Brad's keynote presentation at NEXT that you can all view here: http://www.hitachinext.com/en-us/resources-2018.html For his keynote, Brad decided to recycle the same presentation he delivered at the Global... — read more 

&hitachi - the main board for Hitachi is here: &hitachi you can find it here as well: https://www.thelayoff.com/hitachi That link covers automotive too...

Between sales, marketing, PM, PMM and the whole converged team, there was way over 50 impacted employees in California in April, 2018 (off payroll in June, 2018). I'd encourage all impacted employees to file a complaint. Is this true? If it is, than... — read more 

Thought it might be fun to share with the world exactly how Brad Surak operates. There's a list of these so check back regularly. Just today Brad Surak hosted an all hands meeting t update the product and engineer teams of the progress he has made... — read more