Thread regarding Citrix Systems Inc. layoffs

From Support to Citrix Customers: We are sorry your issue cannot be properly handled

Dear Citrix Customers,

We, the members of support, would like to apologize on behalf of our company and our corrupt Leadership team, Board of Directors, and Upper Management. Due to their mishandling of the business, profiteering, and manipulation in order to boost their own profits, your cases will be delayed. Your cases will not be solved in a timely manner. And your support engineers do not care about you or your case any longer.

Why is that you ask? Because we are overworked and exhausted and have been for nearly 2 years. We have lost people, many, many good people, and none have been replaced; rather our case load has increased. Add to that the fact key developers have either left or been laid off and product quality has significantly decreased, then you will begin to understand the critical nature of our situation which is simply driving more of our best people to leave.

I, like all of my peers, am exhausted and stressed beyond what we can bear and must therefore step back from caring about you and your cases. It is unfortunate, and makes us unhappy because we want to deliver good support, but it is necessary for our mental health.

We used to be proud to work for Citrix. Now it's a blemish on our resumes we cannot wipe away. No, we are not those that were laid off; we are those that are suffering the continual brutal case load trying to give you a measure of support despite the never-ending crushing case load, lingering in the stench of Enron-Level corruption trying to pull ourselves out.

What does management say? We have positions open but they are tied up in finance. Well then, we don't have any positions open then do we? And a couple positions are far and beyond insufficient. We need at least 10 people in my team alone, hired this month, simply to prevent a decrease in personnel due to those already leaving and those who will soon leave. I tell you for a fact every single support and escalation engineer I know is interviewing with other companies, so recruiters, feel free to reach out to Citrix support and escalation engineers, they are looking!

To our customers, I apologize on behalf of our horrible Enron-level-corrupt Leadership, Upper management, and Board. I am sorry your cases will not be resolved quickly, new configurations will be delayed for weeks if not months, and product bugs will proliferate.

In the end, I ask our customers to please not take it out on your support personnel. Realize they are struggling to support you at all, have twice the number of cases they should, have for over a year now, and simply cannot spend as much time as they would like on your case but are doing the best they can with the load they have.

To DH and BC, you are ineffective, corrupt cowards who lack integrity.

Citrites let us demand Citrix guts all the corrupt filth from all levels of the company!

Sincerely,
Your Support Team

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Post ID: @OP+1ebQQ6Wt

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It truly is a mess at Citrix Support and toxic for the engineers. We are taking hits from all directions from internal teams and customers which I can't blame. They pay for a service but are receiving poor response times. upper mgmt doesn't have our backs and puts on a facade like nothing is wrong and we just need to hold out for a little while longer. We have been told that for 2 years. I hope the teams finds relief eventually or move on to greener pastures.

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Post ID: @ejkn+1ebQQ6Wt

Citrix actually died years ago. They tried one failed acquisition after another and nothing worked. Elliot management continues to squeeze every bit of cost out of the place that they can. Then the current leaders lied about how well the transition to the "subscription model" was going. Worse yet, most of the employees do everything they can to avoid using their own products and not even shy about it!

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Post ID: @dnvw+1ebQQ6Wt

Brilliantly written. Its a shame our customers will not read this at all.

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Post ID: @dmbi+1ebQQ6Wt

I am sooooooo glad a I quit Citrix two years ago. I guess they were due for another layoff since it has been about two years and there is a thinning of the herd every two years or so. I had thought about trying to come back at one point but realized I really didn't want to go back to the disaster that is Citrix support.

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Post ID: @depn+1ebQQ6Wt

Holy sh-t I'm wondering if I got drunk and wrote this ... I mean this is 100% spot on .. The saddest is there's actually information that wasn't published that makes it even worse. I'm too exhausted to even type it all up right now but there's a lot .. and it's a damn shame.

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Post ID: @8wht+1ebQQ6Wt

You forgot to mention how customers pay for priority but really get select support instead. Priority is a ghost team within the frontline team. They do not get a title change or increase in pay to "White Glove" handle customers. Its made up of some of the most senior engineers still on frontline but have no time to really support the customer at the level of service promised by sales. Honestly I do not blame the customers for their false expectations. I blame management and sales. Let that sink in. Yeah the call gets picked up sooner but what good is it if as experts they do not have the time to actually troubleshoot your issue past the initial call.

This is not the engineers fault but yeah echoing what the primary post said.... Now's the time to get some great talent as we are all searching. Don't be cheap on us either lol we aren't fucken stupid.

Oh priority engineers were being blocked from going to other teams so most just left because of the whole "yeah we want you but we have to wait till finance approves it." Sounds like a cover up but ok sure try to replace me now that I am gone to another company suckers.

Honestly at this point you might help an engineer feel better if you buy them a lunch. Oh wait customers if you need a support guy on your team now is your chance to hire one of the support engineers. HAHA

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Post ID: @7amz+1ebQQ6Wt

``` escalation engineer I know is interviewing with other companies, so recruiters, feel free to reach out to Citrix support and escalation engineers, they are looking!```

This made me crack up a little.
PS. For any recruiters out there^.

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Post ID: @1gii+1ebQQ6Wt

Dust off that LinkedIn profile and start applying. I start my new job away from here next week and it's a liberating feeling.

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Post ID: @1vmg+1ebQQ6Wt

#BO-M! Mic drop

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Post ID: @ccy+1ebQQ6Wt

#This!

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