Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

All our tools, even the diagnostics are designed with management reporting as the primary purpose. The workload of entering data is not even considered. This is not new of course. Oldsters will remember that productivity ki-ler called CSI.
Or how about its successor. The one that took multiple clicks and pages to simply dispatch a part.

Ever fill out a time card in financial force? Talk about horribly designed software.

Yep. The people in Dell at the leadership level live in 1986. That’s your problem. All they know are what they’ve done for the past 20 years. The worst part is that what’s left aren’t even the good leaders. They were laid off or left.

@dg

Still no RDMA over TCP?

They couldnt have made Powerflex more complucated if they tried, we have never come across a piece of software so difficult to upgrade..90% of AMER cases are upgrade failures,the whole lot of them should be sent to engineering / dev team to get their sh-t together.

@bw Bloated yes, but they are ubiquitous enough that Google and ChatGPT know how to help you. They generally have excellent api documentation and user forums where someone has likely face the problem before. How is it going for you figuring out kob? I thought the whole industry had decided that managing your own eccentric kubernetes clusters was a terrible idea.

Well, there are a few reasons:

1. When these tools are built they simply ignore most of what is called out as not working. They take the low hanging fruit, so they can say that they've done something.
2. There is never enough budget for these. Which very closely ties in with #1.
3. There is some a--hole that has completely oversold what it will do in the first place, and once they've spent enough time and money on it, they will ship it regardless of whether it's a polished piece of tu-d.

As for the last point with all of the tickets etc. They'd be stupid not to. If they wouldn't get enough tickets they'd probably all be fired next, so creating artificial work is one way of keeping themselves in the business. Don't blame them, blame the company culture.

It's not the custom software that I find terrible. It's the big platforms like Salesforce and Confluence that I think are the terrible bloated ones.

Yeah. More bureaucracy is probably part of it. We spend all our time working on anything but the core code base.

RENBE ftw!