This thread is for info about potential Best Buy layoffs? Any chatter, news or rumors?
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CTO OUT!
@107w someone more connected with BBY India
Announced today the CIO/CTO gone at end of the week. Replacement hired but not announced yet.
Leadership continues to threaten opening more offshore roles if more deadlines are missed
@za4 and they lay off engineers every quarter to fill up the india office
Anyone can post anything here. Take it all with a huge grain of salt.
Any1 else having issues with westerners needing to leave at 5 on the dot
@dp1 Digital and Technology (DAT)
Anyone else losing all of the contractors on their team?
@y01 Leadership meetings, or separation meetings?
Meetings coming up
@wgn larger DAT layoff then the one that happened in February and the latest health one?
Really frustrating because as someone that works in store we desperately need to retain the staff that we have (and honestly we probably need more SWEs) instead of just laying everyone off for cheaper labor in India. It hurts the customer experience and it makes the jobs of the in-store workers more frustrating. I would love to work for corporate but they've also gutted pretty much all remote jobs over the years
Largest DAT layoff post-COVID19 is being announced soon.
Health had layoffs last week. Roughly 200 people I heard. Not surprised because health is not profitable but they’re being all cagey about next steps and senior leadership basically all went on PTO this week and is ignoring everyone. I went into the Boston office this week when the health ceo was there and she didn’t address it at all. Very disappointed
Any idea on timing for the Mid Year DAT layoffs?
Mid year layoffs for DAT
My Engineering team told that meetings will happen on IST and we will need to watch recordings central time.
Corporate summer layoff talks meaning more DAT or Business or ?
Best But India will become the default hiring location in 2026. Hiring managers are being asked “can this role be done in India”
Corporate summer layoff in talks with leadership.
Best Buy continues to layoff software engineers and product managers while hiring in their new India office. My brother in law just got laid off a few weeks ago in a quiet layoff. He had worked in the CORP OFFICE for 7+ years with good reviews. They "claimed" it was job redundancy.
What’s DAT?!
DAT cut started today
Large full timer cut this week
Massive layoffs coming soon for DAT (probably next week). They seem to be heavily cutting CWs and hiring for the India office. Unsure what will happen to FTE. Definitely seems like the goal is to move all engineering to India.
They are setting up a big office in Bangalore,India.so this is not a surprise!
Heard that the goal is to move 50% of engineering offshore by 2026