If you are a bu-t-kisser you have no need to worry about layoffs. No matter how poor your work is, you can consider yourself safe. If you're a hard worker who knows what he/she is doing and always does a good job, your head will most likely end up on the chopping block. Am I wrong? Because judging by this layoff, this is the impression I got.
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@7iqj+1ngjIH7A - Oh, poor you! I know two people - an employee and contractor who hardly knows TM1, have never done any consulting. Both were hired last year for remote role and both doing multiple jobs. The fact is that background checking is a joke. It’s easy to forge resume and hv someone help crack the interview, get the remote job and have someone else from india to carry out actual work. Though it sounds far fetch but that’s what happening on ground.
Haha, it's quite interesting to observe your perception of the "TM1 and finance system teams." If you were to join that team, you would be expected to mark yourself as out of office (OoO) even if you're just taking your kids out after 5 pm. I know team members marking themselves OoO for their 7 pm dinner plans.
Occasionally, you might encounter harsh comments regarding your dedicated contributions, especially if they don't meet your boss's expectations. Eventually, you might even start feeling inadequate, despite having long years of work experience and consulting expertise, as well as a strong academic background.
@1ubb+1ngjIH7A, I'm not sure what your point is. As soon as one lazy do-nothing gets hired people are supposed to bail out of the largest genomics company in the world and torpedo their own career? People here are mad that dead weight stays while productive people get laid off - It's a legitimate complaint for career professionals to have - as soon as the financial markets become unstable all sorts of underperformers start wheeling and dealing to keep their jobs while real workers do real work because they're the ones delivering value, and if they stop it literally hurts the company. Smart people end up having their efforts undermined, they leave or stop trying, and eventually a company collapses under the weight of all the dummies, liars, and con artists its HR department foolishly hires.
This is so accurate..
Damn this is hilariously, almost as good as Cafe Pharma back in the days. Remember easy way to get promoted us to F-up
They literally overhire resources in last two years. I know two guys - one Join as employee and another one as contractor for fully remote work. They both hardly have any work and they both are confident that they will survive suing the layoffs because they lick…..
I used to be in the software org. Leaders in this org, across the board have been there such a long time that they eventually got promoted! These folks have never written or seen good software written, how do you expect them to lead teams who do that?
Meetings take priority over everything! Want to hide, setup a status meeting. Setup a meeting to "discuss ideas". Setup a meeting to "socialize" ideas which are already on the roadmap. It's not a culture of doing, it's a culture of pretending to do. Starts at the top and bleeds through every layer of the organization.
Many of the remote employees especially in TM1 and finance system teams are working on multiple jobs. They don’t have enough work to keep them busy and on top of that they are hiring contractors. They all will survive and even get promotion whereas other hardworking employees will be laid off.
Illumina culture protect slackers!
They simply talk sh-t in meetings and ask questions for the sake of asking, while the true workers were made to do everything. In the end, the regconition/promotions go to the slackers!! (Finder's keeper! Simply present the work from your co-workers and management will think that you're the genius who did everything)
When you look around, you can clearly see people who kept addressing the ultra low hanging fruits instead of tackling the critical issues. Building WIs on top of existing WIs and made the system extremely inefficient and tedious to execute. Oh wells .... Those slackers ain't the ones who are gonna do the real work anyway, hence they can sc--w up the system 😕
Boo-hoo. Tell us something we don’t already know. What??! Did you, or your iCafe lunch buddy get laid off? Dude, sorry about that, but not only did you know this was coming (announced a month ago),… this toxic cult-ure has been going on for YEARS!! Why are you still there? The biotech job market was literally BOOMING back in 2020-2021. Yeah… you stayed at ILMN and missed out. We’re you hoping ILMN would “embrace change”?
Yes, very correct. This is what the culture of Illumina creates: protection for underperformers and alienation of the high performers. Then one of them gets promoted to VP, he promotes a mini-me to director and that goldbricker gets rid of all the people that are smarter than him, which is many people.
C level people are doing nothing but to keep their jobs. Tons of drama happen d this year. Essential and Promising projects are cut. Tons of talented R&D scientists and engineers get laid off. Total no idea how people made those decisions.
The original culture of Illumina has been f*ed. Disrespectful managers have no ideas what they are doing but enjoy intimidating team members with ridiculus KPIs. Really don't know what they want in the end if so many talented scientists and engineers (who don't kiss a-s) are driven away.