I'm baffled that Seagate has continued to lay off people like engineers and program managers, but we still have HR people working under Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Those people should be let go before anyone
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How dare you speak of the amazing Ravi in this way! Ravi was making Seagate great again! His greatest mistake was sponsoring F1 drivers who seemed to crash every other week. Ravi tried to show us a different path to revenue Nirvana but we were not willing to finish the bike ride with him. Shame on us for not recognizing and embracing his premium teaching.
@1xke+1o0C7fpX If the question is do I choose STX to provide a service that it has no expertise in or do I go with a company (Google, AWS, Microsoft) that has been providing this service for years? For any enterprise, that is not even a question.
WD/HGST tried to do this also- though they made their own hardware for object store. It failed. Ended up selling the scraps. Lost money. WD had/have no software skills (see their multiple MyCloud failures).
Ravi wasted $millions of Seagate money from implementing TechHub cost $100,000 per station, travelling like going to Nascar like a big shot guy, bringing all his buddies from Sandisk with high salaries, putting wrong people to run IT like Dhirenn Sutaria then promote all his simp buddies. I mean this is a big catastrophe that happen Seagate. I'm no surprised why Seagate is sinking like a Titanic.
Lyve is the natural progression of Seagate. Manufacturing for profit is dead. Service for profit is the only way to compete. Why do you think Seagate's customers don't buy Seagate or Western Digital? Seagate's customers are GIANT corporations that could, but they realize there is no money to be made in tech manufacturing alone. You have to offer a service component. When Seagate let Ravi go, they put another nail in the coffin. Like him or not he represented the future of Seagate. But Seagate is only interested in the past practices.
Lyve is worse than DEI. Both need to go. Yesterday.
We are aggressively ramping HAMR and we clearly do not have the resources anymore to properly analyze anything out of the maturity tests. These just seem like random DOEs w/o anyone knowing anymore how to define KPIVs/OVs. Add the Crown Jewels BS on top of it (everything is a secret/why would you need this data?). It will sink this company.
Profit, return on investment, and customers are no longer needed. Just need DEI to secure a favorable loan interest rates to keep the dividends flowing until the golden parachutes are ready to deploy. Ever wonder why all corporations are run by leftists? Who’s ready for the people and employees? Act accordingly.
DEI must be kept, else certain lenders and investors who demand social justice as a condition for providing cash might pull their money out. Engineering a good product is optional.
I’m hearing rumblings that the whole Lyve team is being laid off. Can anyone confirm if there have been more departures?