Was there small RIF today , heard that few folks were let go
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@2bs Yup
Is any one else hearing about layoffs in distributed cloud in Q4? I’ve heard rumors non-stop for the past month.
@163 Painful looking from the outside in I guess. Not sure why you do it,
@14n not exactly, code quality was much better before transition to India. You can check it very simple by number of regression bugs and customer cases.
@w5 Agreed. Code quality has never been good. RIF’d developers can blame any skin color they want, won’t change history.
@yj They didn't take it. It was given to them.
@yf And they took your job with that IQ.
The average IQ in India is 72. Try again…
@w5 quality has been lacking for 20+ years.
America or India-based development, doesn’t matter - quality has been lacking for over a decade. Developers, and their management and leadership, need to get out of their silos and start talking to customers that are having problems. That’s a long list.
hopefully we can finally cut our losses with the failed india experiment and let them all go. as the previous poster said, there are many f5 products that went to india dev and were promptly forgot about..... until an exec who shall remain nameless recently inquired about them. now suddenly it's all hands on deck to incorporate cis, aig and aspen mesh into bnk because the india team failed so badly at sustaining such simple products
@ag They don’t bother at all. Nobody’s testing anything. The projects are an absolute disaster. Bugs everywhere, security holes you could drive a truck through. Really incredible stuff, in the worst possible way. People look at it and say, “How does this even get released?” Sad.
Honestly, at this point, you almost want to walk into the office with a big red button and just blow the whole project up, figuratively, of course, and start over from scratch. Total reset.
And frankly, we need to bring these projects back to America, where people actually build things properly. We used to make tremendous software, the best software. Now? Total mess. Very unfair.
@ag It was a fantastic executive strategy to move products to India that everyone knew wouldn't work.
Small, but there are major concerns with many products. Just had meetings where it turns out India teams were not bothering to even look at products that were moved into their units. Now important tech peices like CIS are effectively dead even with several major customers being misled to think F5 is still working on their issues and updating them to support current open shift/k8 versions.
The non-core product ecosystem is falling apart FAST! I'm not sure about BigIp/XC ..