Are we getting another Thanos snap?
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@5xy agreed. If you were impacted in the rif or not, loyalty won’t save you and titles won’t protect you. Never forget that impact outlasts output and family is never negotiable.
@dr this is an older comment but I cannot emphasize this enough (with regards to loyalty). I’ve seen many people laid off who were very active in Medidata’s social orbit. People who were very active within BRGs, social groups, volunteer events, etc.. People who constantly promoted Medidata on social media and felt an emotional attachment to their work. I would advise you all to lay low and bring zero attention to yourself. They management here cares nil about how much of your time and life you dedicate to the company. Focus on yourself y’all.
So what are the actual numbers across different regions ? Was it overall 5% ? Did more go in the US than in APAC or EMEA ?
@5c3 Thanks for confirming the earlier post - sounds like the link was irrelevant to actual layoff outcomes.
@5b9 I got the link the day before and I wasn’t let go. Same for many.
@4s4 everyone got an email but only some got a separate second email with a link the day before while others didn’t- this was discussed widely. It would appear that if you got the link the day before, you were let go.
@4rs everyone got the same email after 4 PM the day before the layoff. However the meeting links sent afterwards contained two different set of links: the people who were laid off got one link, the “survivors” were sent another different link where they got to listen to Anthony congratulate us (yes seriously) for not getting laid off.
Also noteworthy is that none of the people talking about the ‘Business Update’ email or in the live Slack thread were affected so I’m guessing the people laid off lost majority of their access/privileges hours before.
Did anyone figure this out? If you got the webinar link emailed after 4pm the day before, did that always mean you were on the layoff list? I heard a few people still employed also got the link, but I’m not sure if that was true or just something said to soften the blow.
@49z The CS team was mostly cut a few months ago, not sure on exact numbers. I doubt that was the last round unless sales suddenly spike.
@419 Isn't this the second layoff this year ?
in the end 106 people were axed from north america. 10% reductions were asked in APAC. Not sure about EMEA.
That is after 127 in May 2024
@zh Some new products have problems . Using fail fast MVP mentality but doing it in front of customers. Just check out Reddit response to latest releases. Others are hard to change, legacy issues. The company isn't going anywhere but it will shrink.
@wb You're not the only one. I felt the same way. I found meetings to be canceled our pushed to second week of August. I also felt I was not involved in conversations that were happening.
The annual report clearly points out that only Medidata had single digit increase in the Life Sciences space. The only customers that are staying are those who are heavily vested in RAVE. I am not sure how many new customers have been added QoQ.
@1c6 For those of us who couldn’t listen in, can you say more about the town hall, and why the mask is off? And name and shame the bootlicker? It was one of WW, MN (most likely this gutless coward), or DB if an Experience lead ( the latest brain dead strategy implementation) said something. The Xcom, a joke, the whole clueless bunch of them.
@1ch notice how he didn’t offer current employees the opportunity to apply for these senior leadership positions. They want to bring in useless external folks so the salespeople can say to potential clients “hey we’ve got folks from Nvidia, AWS, Azure, wherever else”. It’s a good sales pitch that will ultimately break down in a few years when inefficient leadership results in inefficient products and services.
@1cd Yeah, that was one of the EXPERIENCE leads. He's senior leadership so its his job to lick the boot clean at every opportunity. Anthony said he's not opposed to adding more senior leadership in the Townhall (as if we need more of these guys that couldn't give a damn about their teams, suffer no accountability when their strategic ploys fail, and kiss up to XCOM).
@1c6 speaking of the town hall, did someone try to win over brownie points with Anthony by telling him about the ‘mind numbing posts’ on social media? Likely calling this forum out. Tell me how that boot tastes when your ‘separation’ comes after AI takes over your spot.
What a townhall...the mask is fully off at this point.
@wv from what I gathered many folks felt it was more performative on the csuite level at Medidata. It was perfect opportunity for them to just get rid of it all together. As 3DS is still running their DEI programs and even have a CDO. Though to your point federal funding for research was pulled left and right regardless.
Anyone else sick and tired of getting invites to these worthless mental health/wellness trainings all about “Navigating so and so” or “Making sense of Change” blah blah blah?
I have an idea for a mentally healthy workforce - transparency and job security!
@10r they don't have any irt technology
@10m not true
@10r Click is technology as a therapy for specific conditions. I don't believe they provide generalized clinical trial functionality.
@11q Please say more about Rave LITE . I had no idea there was a problem there.
Shithole company run by shithole people. You should have run for the hills when Rave Lite became a thing because for years Medidata was brash and continued to shove Rave down everyone’s throat even knowing it was entirely too expensive to burnish new business relationships.
@10m
I could be totally off base here, but is RTSM being outsourced to Click?
Half of the RTSM team has been laid off.
what is the severance package looking like?
Trying to figure out if the product is bad, there is no business to be had, or are competitors just winning over us...
Both situations can coexist. There was a lot of federal money poured into DEI during the last administration. As far as I can tell, the current administration has gotten rid of all of that money. Medidata is going to follow the political tides as the company is highly reliant on Federal grants (as are so many companies these days). Anthony could remain committed to DEI while not having the funds or the legal ability to continue the path the company was on.
This hasn’t been talked about as much, but Medidata’s DEI program was also slowly phased out despite Anthony’s initial commitment to maintaining it. It was renamed to something more generic, but most of the People team members responsible for overseeing the DEI program were also gradually eliminated. This post is not meant to advocate for or against DEI programs, but if this is something that’s important for you in terms of your overall employment experience, Medidata has slowly backed away from those commitments.
Did anyone else feel that they were slowly sidelined over the course over the last two months to prepare for this layoff?
I'm curious to understand if my experience is unique or if more people felt like they were being sidelined.
Personally, I had started to feel like I was no longer included in key meetings or discussions. All my 1:1s with my manager became completely one-sided with no direction, support, or career/personal development coming my way.
I feel that they may have had their list of people picked out several months ago and then slowly started to shift work away so there wouldn't have to be a loss of knowledge.
We are putting 30% tariffs on the EU. Regardless of whether that is a good or bad idea long term, the French are probably pi---d that their wine and cheese will not make as much profit. The Dessault family is one of the richest families in the world. It would be wise to assume they do not care what happens to their employees. They have fancy lives to maintain.
I originally thought 0% raise was the company trying not to go the layoff path, and some let-goes happened this year already. Moreover, they should stop using the "restructuring" word but admitted they laid off hundreds of people.
When Trump's administration announced NIH funding cuts and other funding cuts that affected the industry a few months back, Anthony mentioned we had DS support in the town hall. I couldn't recall what exactly he said, but I thought I could at least not worry about a mass layoff this year.
New leadership wanted to prove that they bring changes to the company without giving proper support to their employees. This place used to have a lot more caring and culture than it does now.
From what I'm gathering it sounds like Dessault wants more money out of Medidata. Is that reasonable? Are you thinking sales just isn't performing well? It could be numerous things all at once, of course.
In my experience at former jobs you know the company is done when they resort to messing with health insurance. I suspect that could happen relatively soon.
@r8 From where I sit in the US, I can see the sales leaders all swinging their proverbials to position themselves for when the current head of sales retires.
It's all about them. To he-l with the mental wellbeing of their teams. No payrises. No promotions.
'Bout time to work on my resume...
@nv
Can you tell us more about the politics?
@m9, there’s a David Wood joke in there somewhere.
There is a lot of politics at play and power grabs... management won't think twice about throwing you in front of a speeding train to save themselves.
It is not the company it once was.
@k2 OMG, that's terrible. I was good friends with her and we talked about our kids. Glad I retired a few weeks ago. Do you have her gofundme?