How else can we explain all the missteps of late? I refuse to believe that getting rid of employees with the most wisdom and experience is a good move. I refuse to believe that allowing talent to switch to our competition without trying to keep them here is beneficial for us. These are all mistakes that'll cost us plenty in the end.
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Oh the security at Citrix is the worse in both talent and culture. They hire narcissistic leaders with no security background who present the work of their employees as their own. Why do you think every real security professional has already left? Just count the years of experience of their directors.
@1vaa+1eQ7vbuV.... the day SB and MO were walked out of here was pure schadenfreude
"DH blamed employees for the security breach? YIKES!"
Circa 2018, I literally sat in a room where SB (former CISO) was irate and yelling at people because he found out that LG from internal audit was trying to have PwC run an internal pen test. His response, and I quote, "I know it's bad, I don't need someone else to tell me." He then, somehow, had the internal pen test squashed.
So yeah, there was some fishy sh*t going on...
DH blamed employees for the security breach? YIKES!
I heard back in 2000-2006 that the phones of Citrix sales reps used to ring off the hook. So many people wanting to buy Citrix. This is exactly what should be happening during a pandemic and instead Citrix falling apart. The pandemic proved that businesses don’t need Citrix to have employees work from home. I know 30,000+ employee companies not using Citrix and everyone is working from home just fine. Citrix is no longer relevant. Nothing was the same once DH took over. He will go down in history as the worst CEO of any company ever. I know normal people questioning why Citrix was buying Wrike… Why wasn’t Citrix leadership questioning it? I hope Citrix kept the Wrike leadership that talked DH into buying Wrike because those are some good sales people.
I agree with OP. They need to step in and secure key resources for the future, load them up on rsu’s and not wait until March. Do it now bc it takes their eventual attrition off the table. Incompetent ELT bc they don’t know how real businesses do this
Also part of it is influence from activist investors making short term moves and underinvestment in products and sales.
Of late? Go back 3 years ago when they reorganized the product portfolio. Start tracking incompetence right there. And if you’re looking for the precursor to the devaluation of human capital — go back to the security breach. Did DH accept that it was caused by the lack of an acceptable password policy that administration failed to put in place 10 years ago? Nope. Who’s fault was it? The employees. He blamed the employees. Ridiculous.
Sell the company to someone that understands how to run it, please. And the next round of layoffs need to be restricted to EVP and above. Just the things that should have been done long ago.