Thread regarding Hitachi Vantara layoffs

@dek Completely agree. Tammy is a toxic leader who makes layoff decisions based on her personal preference and retaliates against capable employees she sees as “not her own people,” putting the company at the edge of serious legal risk.

I've been sitting with this for a few months because I'm trying to show some grace - but I really hope Tammy (et al) is enjoying her employment. Her inaction and ineptitude has completely fu---d a lot of good, smart, hard working people. SUPER excited for her to eventually get her "bonus and retire" though once Japan is done with her as a reward for fu--ing the business out of millions for her vanity projects, and costing people their livelihoods. This job market is an absolute nightmare.

@OP Looks like they need to lower the price by a billion.. almost 5 months since an article leak.. who wants this sh!t right now.

@6r8 Fun fact about Pentaho. The company was named by combining "penta" for the five original founders and "ho" because they loved strip clubs, which was always their sort of inside joke. This is legitimately how the company came to be.

@6rq what makes you think the company isn't for sale now?

@6rq Or the 'new' but old Japanese CEO is taking over to help with transition of the sale. End of April or sooner will tell ?

Well at least we know the company isn’t for sale and a new Japanese CEO is taking over. Positive times.

The end began in 2017 when HDS brought Pentaho into the fold. Total disaster that brought nee faces to the management ream.

Problem is multi faceted. Wrong or no strategy. Mid management forecast not help. Bad hires. Very few quality sales people. Most just asleep at the wheel taking a salary.

Other than that, it’s perfect.

@575 you might want to try selling products that are half-baked, then you would know their reasonings

@557 if the company is not doing well the sales people must be pretty bad at their jobs so they are doing the company a favor then aren't they?

Many sales and pre-sales people are resigning they may not be a layoff required.

Was Shiela sacked from her job- the announcement was abrupt!

@4zr did she resign on her own or was she told to leave? does Hitachi Ltd want control of HV before a sale? Octavian next? bigger round of layoffs coming to sweetn' up the sale/deal ? its anyone's guess at this point.

Talking head Sheila is resigning as the CEO due to "personal reasons." Love the ChatGPT email she droned out to us listing all of her "accomplishments" while she careened us towards the iceberg.

The end is nigh for this company. It's not a coincidence you continue to hear about more and more Japanese colleagues and executives as these weeks go by.

Sheila is off. Japan are sending a replacement

@1wm That HV & SUPERMICRO partnership has existed for over 3 years, there is no traction for SUPERMICO AI Infra,, if HV cants sell storage to sustain themselves where is the play for SUPERMICRO,, it is a hood winker deal

@3tx it was a very different "acquisition" They were kept untouched for many years and then if anything, the leadership and engineers from HGST took over positions at WDC!

Does anyone know how Hitachi has handled these situations in the past, with regards to how employees are handled? Did the HGST folks get packages? Or was it a "stay on with WDC if you want, and good luck to you" scenario?

Yeah probably not a mass whack job more surgical and possibly a little dead weight. ;-)…. @2vw

@2vw COE is Center Of Excellence. They do live demos. Your comment means you don't know HV.

@2sw COE ? there hasn't been any mass layoffs, maybe 1 off's / dead weight ?

@2sr I know of one in the COE.

Heard there were more layoffs at Hitachi Vantara today… don’t know how many groups or total number of folks cut…..

@225 Grow up. This is a page about lay offs, not anything else. Sales keep you in your job silly person.

@21g great! then get back to work and sell the products di-k weasel! make us some money!

@1wg You a-s monkey. I know more about selling than you know about Star Wars. Now get back in your patch panel and simmer down.

@1y0 haha they probably just wanna interview you because you come from HV and wanting to fish out info from u

Anyone being contacted by recruiters? I’ve been reached out to and interviewed with a couple. Kind of weird how the recruiters keep bringing up the HV sale. Not sure if they’re serious or just fishing for information. Anyone else experiencing this?

Will HV be sold? Honestly I don’t think so maybe not now. They just signed a partnership agreement with Supermicro

@1sb haha clown.. it's not Real estate, no need for brass fu--ing ballz here, and the Japanese will have it sold don't you worry.

@1s5 Thank you for your input Inspector Clouseau. Here is a statement to you;

You know what it takes to sell real estate? It takes brass ba--s to sell real estate.

@1p4 Octavian might be hinting at who it is in the last few emails he's sent out. SuperMicro?

@1p3 who would want it?

@1k8
Ignore the lies spun by this batch of leader-wannabes, if you can even all them that.
Question is who is gonna pick up Vantara? PEs? Other vendors? Competitors?

Leadership assures us nothing is happening, which tracks, given leadership was ordered from Temu

@1hd gather the right qualifications and massage the right appendages on the right people and you too can be an incompetent g1mp and run a company into the ground with no repercussions. welcome to modern capitalism!

@1bq
referring to:
"Bootnote
We might assess a general Hitachi Vantara weakness as its subjugation under Hitachi Ltd in Japan, which parachuted in a succession of Japanese Hitachi senior leaders, diluting the influence of the possibly more entrepreneurial and Silicon Valley-connected US leaders."

from
https://blocksandfiles.com/2026/02/03/hitachi-vantara-may-be-up-for-sale/

Agreed.
The damage started when H parachuted To** To** in to run HV and installed Ga K, where he enabled Ga K and his associates to dismantle the business from within. Although Ga* was eventually exposed and exited for sheer incompetence and fraudulent mismanagement, To** To** escaped the wreckage unscathed—and was actually promoted the big C-suite. It’s a baffling lack of accountability for the person who set the stage for the crisis.

@1bt they hire from low cost countries. like from where you obviously come from.

@13t Their support is terrible and I am not sure where they hire from but they kinda remind me of a stooges