Thread regarding NetApp layoffs

Incompetencies exacerbated by total reliance on AI while the ship sinks

  • Constant* project churning. Requirements either written by AI without considering what's actually possible, or just blatantly copy the competition as they do it better. Just copy, copy, copy, without understanding what works and what doesn't, and why it works or not. Demanding constant revisions over and over on UX work, in a rush.

Utter incompetence. I've worked on projects for months that go so long only because management is entirely incapable of making good decisions. Iterate, iterate, iterate, iterate.

The place has become a complete mess, with outrageous demands as they assume everyone is now a superhuman with these AI shortcuts (they've done nothing but make things worse for everyone but devs.) And dev wants nothing to do with UX, as they just see it as a bottleneck as they "vibe code" unplanned, unconsidered garbage.

Anyone with original ideas will have them stolen as management desperately tries to justify their employment, despite outright incompetence.

What a complete waste. It was a great place to work while it lasted, but now it's just absurd demands with absurd timeframes with absurd people.

And good luck if your manager decides (to alleviate his own guilt for throwing out a LONG-time performer) that he has to be entirely unreasonable and make absurd demands of you suddenly . Su-ks when the manager was already entirely incompetent at design - now he's going to demand your work gets far worse as he forces terrible decisions that don't make any sense. Just making a paper trail of "insubordination" for not heeding "just make the logo bigger"-type of feedback an amateur wouldn't make.

What a joke. Stay far away. They are going to be desperate for good employees soon. I've seen many companies make the same terrible mistakes, and it just gets worse and worse.


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@153 AI is best used for replacing overpaid executives (per Claude)

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If you don’t use AI you are at risk, but also, don’t reduce your AI use because it’s costing too much.
Yes they actually said both.

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Post ID: @16n+1km1ka8d9

You are so on point. The Thrive survey asking about NetApp culture was an out loud laughing moment for me. NetApp culture is long gone and the company is only focused on making stockholders happy. The AI push is absurd and now they are sending out AI tracking data on employees that they've been collecting for months. If you don't use AI you are "at risk" I guess. Mgmt hasn't been told what the next steps are but it's clear that they don't understand when AI should be used and when it shouldn't.

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