To quote Whitesnake.
Only difference is we are run by an actual snake . People will once again be disappearing
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The SynaMeet next week will be interesting...
Payouts pretty poor, a touch over statutory. Capped at 15 years . Redundancy based on salary and not skill.
Obviously can’t mention names but I know of at least 3 experienced people being let go. Managed out of IL but working in UK. Every person cut now has a direct effect on the business, but sadly that doesn’t seem to matter anymore. Projects will just get delayed more and more and customers will lose faith.
It’s bad in the Uk. Anyone remotely skilled / senior on infinite gone.
@Ocnf+1sLruGpq What do you know?
More people axed. At least in the UK. Does anyone have more detail about the scope of this ‘restructure’ ?
Hyperscale didn't fail before. What failed was the Synamedia project, back in the NDS days. That's why we at least had the trademark on the name!
More information required on Hyperscale, please
What is Hyperscale?
Is it not the new MCS product that has not launched yet?
Who honestly ever thought Hyperscale was ever going to be a viable solution? Hadn’t a previous version of it already failed in POC?
Hyperscale maybe going through mass redundancies, but I’m sure a game of rainbow bingo this week, will cheer everyone up…..
You mean creating infrastructure teams paid by how much of the previous infra teams' work they can wrap, but not rewrite, while owning nothing themselves, isn't a good idea?!
I'm shocked.
And lets boost moral.. by having some "designed for Pride" Python scripts and a game of Drag Bingo.
"....all of this, just to create a dns record in route53."
You made me laugh. -- Cheers from one former employee who tried, but obviously failed to stop this from happening.
Shitamedia is using a paid CI system no one else in the industry is using, to run shell script, which runs a python script, which runs another shell script to ssh to a jumpbox, to run another shell which runs a python, and then it runs jinja to render salt script, which runs an ansible playbook which runs a docker container to run terraform, all of this, just to create a dns record in route53. And they dare call it a 'bundle' and proud to say we are using top-notch technologies... And then they convince newbiee engineers to fall for the stupid S.T.E.P course which takes a year, to teach them about all Shitamedia deprecated & obsolete products which no one is willing to buy, and teach them how to write more 'bundles'
Just in case someone still wonders why this company is such a big failure
@4isj+1sLruGpq , you say "plenty" good employees, and I say only a "few". Whatever that number is - is not sufficient to grow this company.
Also, you don't get it, do you? Whose responsibility do you think it is to keep the employee morale high? Bingo! Managers and Directors.
The unit's revenues have been in a decline sometime after Cisco took over - the sale to Cisco itself was strategic because the revenues plateaued at the time. How many leadership/ELT changes since then? I can count more than 10, including after the spinoff.
There have been many rounds of layoffs, and 100s of great employees existing the system.
While this culling & brain-drain was on going, who do you think had the duty to keep the composition of the company suitable for the next phase of "growth"? Bingo! Managers and Directors.
Enter machiavellistic managers and directors, whose only aim is to increase power at any cost, build empires and survive the gravy train. These cunning managers/directors do not care for the wellbeing of employees or the company's health! They hoard weaklings under them - and it just becomes a show of strength for them to grow even higher. They thrive in a system of chaos and dysfunction. They even create such disorders - which they call creating opportunities in thier presentations!
If you have the privilege of birds-eye-view of the organisation, and have the ability (which I doubt) to judge employees' strengths, just see all around you that's filled with talentless individuals. See the speed at which things are given to customers - at snails pace. Or It's like an army of Orcs against a handful of Elves. Or see this football match, if we can call it that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7u1XK0O49g - Team Red is Synamedia. Team Blue is other companies.
Our Go-to-market timeline is so huge, other companies are making our products look like antiquity by the time ours see light. Other companies are going through multiple iterations of product lifecycle for one cycle of ours.
I repeat again that all we have left now are cunning managers & directors with talentless as-lic-ers as reports, except for a few. The very fact that such managers and directors are allowed to even grow and sustain is a testament to the governance that is in place at this great company. The rot is deep. ELT is bl__dy clueless, they come and go. But who is holding the structure of this rot? Bingo! Managers and directors.
I think you’re missing the point @2khe+1sLruGpq when you say “..they lack the ability to contribute above bare minimum if the situation calls for it”. There are plenty of capable people who can contribute. It’s just that the morale is so low that they have lost the will. When you see so many people being axed, or leaving for better opportunities, it makes you feel like the company is in a doom-spiral. When shortsighted decisions are made, why should you absorb the resultant stress ‘for the good of the company’, when they quite clearly don’t care about the employees or the future health of the company. They are just cash cows stripping things down to a minimum to improve profits. One these PE clowns sell us on, the company will be a wreck.
Synamedia's predicament has got nothing to do with "software types", whatever that is. The mediocrity permeates across functions and regions.
Someone commented in the other thread "Far better to work the minimum to keep my job, until the inevitable redundancy comes." What they don't realise is they lack the ability to contribute above bare minimum if the situation calls for it. History speaks for itself.
Synamedia's bestest software, systems, and processes are prime candidates to be displayed at museums, adjacent to the early cavemen artefacts. That's how much behind the curve the tech, admin, HR processes, and governance aspects are compared to what's out there in the modern world.
or perhaps anyone who can string a coherent sentence together ? That's the problem with "software types" they generally lack the the ability to express themselves. Abe's favourite joke was about 2 engineers meeting and finding that they seemed to have a common interest in omelettes. In due course one visited the other for dinner after which he was invited to the room in the house which displayed their hosts collection of omelettes .
Who's left now anyway? Great employees were laid off in the past. Many great employees have left & still leaving on their own. Barring a few good ones, cunning managers & directors and talentless a*licers to blow them are the only ones left these days.
Can we have more details?