The cover story for layoffs is that the financial incompetence of leadership led to layoffs, but, in fact, the impact of layoffs seems to be a rise in Authoritarian management practices (do this or we’ll axe you, whether you like it or not), which leads one to wonder if that was not always the point?
Foreigners in management coming from corrupt and inbred home countries cannot be expected to understand the drive and spirit that made Silicon Valley unique and powerful, so, in the mockery of imitating greatness, they replace inspiration with the whip?
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@OP sweet home Alabama :)
The level of grotesquely bad management at the upper levels (above +2) is simply stunning. They understand nothing of what people actually do on a daily basis or need for their work. Instead of implementing policies that make sense they just change and pile on corporate BS processes which accomplish nothing: another evaluation 'process', decisions about directions of development which utterly ignore technical reality, not listening to the +1 and +2 mgrs who actually understand the technical details and practical reality of our jobs, posturing and personal connections over technical/reality-based facts.
The things we actually need to do our jobs, the infrastructure, and support (software) tools, are left to rot. The lack of competent people in those areas means when anything goes wrong, no one can help, just 'pass the buck'. Support and infrastructure isn't se-y, so gets no attention, but without it, work becomes increasing painful, slow, and inefficient.
I have nothing but praise for my first couple levels of mgt, but above that, it's just corporate cosplay and posturing.
And this (poor upper-mgt) is why Cadence is succeeding while Synopsys is not.
AI can replace every level of leadership in this company, but leaders fail to spot that opportunity.
@qr No, this did not happen
@qr This is simply not true.
At Ansys the management seem to be starving and cancelling lots of teams and products. If I was an investor I would get out as soon as possible since the goal seems to be the destruction of this software giant. Too bad regulators didn’t do their job and see what a loss this merger would be for the whole community
@nr No I am not. Your WHAT ABOUT XYZ, SAAR? does not change the reality of being in a company run to the ground by your kind.
@kk I assume you are referring to American culture. Jack Dorsey has just replaced 40% of his employees with AI agents. Whether you like it or not, our company is simply following a global trend.
The company is literally being run by people coming from a cut-throat, low-trust, tribal and scammy society (you know which one). Only a deranged person would wish to play fair with these folk. My advice to anyone with a boss coming from that place would be to do what the underlings in these societies have always done to survive - over-promise, under-deliver, keep other opportunities ready.
@OP
In my country (the Ansys side), over 10 employees were suddenly laid off in November 205. It was clear that most of them were individuals who had been disliked or singled out by their superiors for some reason. While management constantly preaches that adapting their approach to handle any type of person is a core managerial skill, they exploited this situation to fire subordinates they had disliked all along. These employees have llife, yet they were summarily dismissed through unfair means, while management only cares about protecting their own positions at Synopsys.
Two things can be true at the same time - financial incompetence and 'poor' management skills are not mutually exclusive. The burden of both of those have reached a tipping point that can no longer be sustained.