Thread regarding Optum layoffs

I wish 100x also let go. All we saw was cost cutting no growth mindset at all

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Candy has declared AI journey is successfully completed. He is now in Quantum. How does SH tolerating this piece of art?

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Post ID: @4pv+1jv4vqsyf

Candy’s real achievement: Create his clones, who will shamelessly use AI in anything or everything. It’s beyond ridiculous. This will damage the culture as free loaders will assume cheap talk is the way to go.

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Post ID: @393+1jv4vqsyf

@af
It's Sandeep

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Post ID: @2w6+1jv4vqsyf

He is a charlatan: Never takes any ownership or delivers. Always cheap talk, townhalls are platforms for other sales Vendors. Also, doesn’t brings his own team, as he has none.

Steve Helmsley fire this guy before it’s too late!!

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Post ID: @1rs+1jv4vqsyf

Candyman is a snake oil salesman, who has no leadership skills, has zero experience leading technology, he was, is and will remain a salesman. And the only skill he has is selling himself. He was brought in to clean the bloat in Tech, but being clueless AF, he has done nothing except self promotion and peddle AI as a cure-all while surrounding himself with sycophants who all act as if they are in a tiktok video, not a serious healthcare company. Candyman WILL be let go,eventually, but not before he runs this company into the ground.

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Post ID: @19f+1jv4vqsyf

In candy’s defense, outsourcing is the only skill he has. That’s also doubtful as his previous employer passed him over for a big promotion. Big talker, hollow from inside

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Post ID: @16r+1jv4vqsyf

Candyman has zero executive leadership skills, and even less technology leadership talent. He adds no value to the position in this company. He has one answer for everything - outsource to India.

Eventually he will be exposed as the fraud he is, or the fraud and kickbacks from his favorite vendors that he is receiving will be exposed.

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A Miller is the only leader in OT that has the ba--s to do the right thing and show leadership. Great leader that was overlooked when Amy "ba----g directs" got the reigns and totally created a an org of complete incompetence.

They miss handled the Change data breach, and instead of clearing deck, they just promoted people based on su-king up.

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Post ID: @xh+1jv4vqsyf

Lots of people need to be fired.
Candyman, ElAssir, Jeyachandran from OT. All need to be purged.
ESRO needs to be purged. Fire the new mallcop they hired. Fire Nico and has lakeys.

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Post ID: @jt+1jv4vqsyf

A Miller survived recent IT security team firings. G Block didn’t.

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Anyone who tricks themself into thinking the leadership at this company is capable of introspecting is out of their minds. You will not directly benefit if this company decides to start hiring onshore talent again. This company does not value your knowledge and experience, if they did they wouldn't have offshored to begin with.

If you are not eventually replaced by offshoring, you will be replaced with a college grad. If you are not eventually replaced by a college grad you will be replaced by a person they pay less picking up your work, or because they think an LLM can do your job even if it can't.

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Post ID: @cd+1jv4vqsyf

How tall is candman? 4 foot 2? Could never stomach listening to him babble. What a downgrade from Santelli

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Post ID: @c2+1jv4vqsyf

Candyman shows clear contempt for UHG’s ecosystem and people, likely due to his outsourcing background where extracting work at low cost was the priority. He’s forgotten he's now on the other side. A clear misfit — it’s time to move on.

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Post ID: @bx+1jv4vqsyf

100x faster (aka Candyman) came from Mars and was supposed to revolutionize our IT. He offshored all of it, firing staff firms that had been producing for us, some for 15+ years. Then he negotiated contracts with the largest India firms. The hourly rates were higher than what we were paying but he gave billions to these large Indian tech firms.

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Post ID: @b1+1jv4vqsyf

He'll be gone soon enough and the offshoring will result in on-shoring again.

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Post ID: @b0+1jv4vqsyf

I hope redeployment sends him some suggestions for other roles.

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Post ID: @ay+1jv4vqsyf

Oopsie hopping on the new shiny thing cloud, AI gonna get burned. Kinda like when it looks to good to be true it is. They all failed to realize cloud costs go to infinity when you dont know what you are doing. Every compute cycle costs you money, every bit of storage costs you money. Free to upload data but costs big $$ to get it back out. Remember when google mail was such big deal all free since they are mining data from your email. Same thing goes with the cloud. Oh wait that is our business plan to mine all the customer information from claims submitted and all other data forms in our products. Hiring a bunch of cheap employees costs you more money than that one expensive one who can actually produce. AI is useless if you dont have a business plan to direct where you want to go.

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Post ID: @aw+1jv4vqsyf

Candyman showed zero progress in IT, Costs have went up way above for on prem and cloud, additionally he is digging grave for UHG by giving data to cloud companies which they don't understand is being used by cloud companies to train their LLM Models as lot of professors have published in their studies and soon competitor will rise in all UHG ( as if amazon wasn't enough ) profitable sectors and UHG will be left with loss making sectors alone.

who takes such a big company to cloud, when company should be hosting their own cloud.

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Post ID: @as+1jv4vqsyf
Mr Candyman/100x (S. D,) came from Mars

Fixed it for you.

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Post ID: @ap+1jv4vqsyf

Mr Candyman/100x (S. D,) came from Mars candy company. He is Optum Tech Chief Digital & Tech Officer...2 steps below Sir Witty.

He is also Mr Selfie...Sometimes on Sparq homepage you will see his selfies.

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Post ID: @aj+1jv4vqsyf

Bring Santelli back to get an adult in the room. The complete collapse of ELT (Spineless)

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Post ID: @ag+1jv4vqsyf
Who is 100x/Candyman?

If you have to ask, you don’t know him.

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Post ID: @af+1jv4vqsyf

Who is 100x/Candyman?

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Post ID: @ae+1jv4vqsyf

They all got stacked ranked.

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Post ID: @ab+1jv4vqsyf

Candyman is a scam!!

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Post ID: @a9+1jv4vqsyf

Hemsley is a temp.

Once board finds a new permanent CEO, that new CEO will bring in their people. Usually takes up to a year for the new CEO to replace leadership. Sometimes a new CEO keeps some "leaders" around.

100x/Mr Candyman & other "leadership" are likely already looking for new gigs. But, I would love to see them RIFed.

Witty was essentially RIFed/fired.

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Post ID: @a6+1jv4vqsyf

His days are numbered.

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