How to blow more billions. Bunny slippers are acceptable.
Until Billy retires, JF and DF are fired this train wreck will continue. Oh and dump the current BOD🤡🤡
https://fordauthority.com/2025/07/ford-ev-chief-doug-field-puts-out-call-for-great-engineers/
Traffic jam 🎸🕺
It makes no sense to keep him around
@q2 Deep Dive Fire Talk? Maybe a Deep Dive why Ford spent nearly $1B to restore the train station, I'm sure it has better parking and adequate bathrooms.
@ep - I like your style of writing. You should consider writing and publishing a book on Amazon. Something like…A day in a life of a Ford employee, and how management destroyed an iconic company.
@n8 no, DF hired too many former Apple buddies and they are subpar performers. Some were boosted artificially into roles they were not qualified for and play pretend that they actually know what they are talking about.
@ep this is so correct it’s scary
I thought the Skunkworks team was the solution to our poor quality and slow speed of execution with Legacy Ford. Do the people working in it no longer believe?
@gv There is a major a--hole senior manager at the skunkworks working on one of DF’s pet projects who fits this description.
DF brought in plenty of his Apple cronies, none of which knew anything about automotive. Stern was the biggest overpaid dud who did not do anything. Anyone remember that long drawn out town hall with Stern’s intro? DF was talking him up like he was the golden child.
Skunkworks is never going to launch. The one engineer who has talent from Apple is not an alchemist. The only reason phoenix exists.
Oh but can’t wait for a Dearborn TPM to take credit for it yet not know the difference between a fork and a branch.
@gt problem will be solved by YE
DF brought hired a 25 yo LL3 in adas only to yell and scream at everyone for 2 years before leaving for some cr-ppy start up... Didn't even deliver a single improvement to existing BlueCruise feature.... 0 accountability for those who hired him of course... Only the workers left holding the bag.
I work at the Skunkworks and we rarely see DF in the office. I feel layoffs are coming, hiring freeze is in place and many of us are stretched paper thin with workload, meetings and jira tickets.
Deep dives and countless meetings, very true. I cannot even begin to wrap my head around the amount of $$$ that has been spent flying people to Irvine, Palo Alto, and Dearborn for these Deep Dives that yielded nothing. People have indeed been fired or have quit and gone elsewhere.
Don’t get me started on GPD days.
Basically the whole department is run by sycophants who put on big dog and pony shows to the c-suite. Barely any of the work is plausible because none of it runs on the hardware.
Oh and the big directive after reverting to phoenix 3.9x was to decouple software experiences from hardware. LOL. Can’t wait to have even more lag when trying to just connect to CarPlay.
@ep perfect recreation! This is exactly how it goes
Don’t cry too hard. It’s a force ranked post.
Post ID: @ep+1k0s4t9v5
I will not even offer a response to an obvious hit piece against DF.
Typical Doug Field Deep Dive in Palo Alto.
Few days before: Design team spend thousands of dollars flying in all the remote employees and lodging them. Most contribute nothing whatsoever.
Night before: They rearrange the agenda about 20 times. The executive level team sees the designs for the first time in weeks and then completely changes everything. Impacting months of work. Making insignificant changes based on the VP’s feedback (first time he’s seen it before he presents to Doug).
Day of: Doug’s schedule has shifted so they remove a couple of items from the agenda. Those people traveled for no reason. Doug strolls in hour late scarfing down some cr-ppy chips as he tilts the nearly empty bag up and pours the crumbs into his mouth. Accompanying Doug is a newly hired executive loser (stearns, Roz Jo, etc.) design team shows off their janky prototype that looks like a mediocre school project. It shows UX patterns that are so widely adopted yet wrongly implemented so Doug starts to focus in on that. Then comes the big question…
“Well what do you think!”
What kind of Jedi mind trick is this all the participants in the room start to think. Not realizing the genius they are witnessing in front of them. They scramble for an answer and Doug nods. He responds with a simple “let’s deep dive on that a bit more”
By now half the room has fainted because the intelligence displayed is too much for them to handle.
The VP of design assured Doug that is the right course of action. They nod at each other. Doug says “good work”. All those that are left standing are elated with joy that this genius has blessed them. The VP goes home happy, fires up ChatGPT and sends a congratulatory email to the team.
Total cost: 1-3 million
Innovation: priceless
Look in the rear view mirror. You just dumped them over the last few years.
Wrong snake oils salesmen at least have a product to sell.
Dudes a snakeoil salesman
Interesting post when he’s over his headcount already and CE1 is 6+ month behind schedule, over cost before the EV incentive went away. He’s milking this place until that thing launches and he’s going to “retire” before it flops. Just wait.
DF is the best leader we have and it's great to see him reaching out to the grassroots engineer level.
We will have a tremendous team in California when the talent is assembled.
This guy is responsible for Fords downfall. Honestly even hackett did a better job, we were actually able to put our new product. What new vehicle has ford put out since this guy took over pd and r&d? Every new venture he starts gets cancelled after 2-3 years. JF and BF are clowns for letting this guy run this company the way he does. He shouldve just had control the special project that is ce1 and ford shouldve never kicked old timers who actually knew how to deliver.
they should have added: great engineers... in mexico! everybody knows that engineers get treated like bottom of the barrel here. it's all about MBAs in dearborn.
What a joke. This guy’s team just fired a great engineer.
He has no talent. Can’t recognize talent. Just sells the same dream to clueless c-suite level people because he’s failed in the right direction. I’ve been in multiple meetings with this guy and he just surrounds himself with “yes, people” then turns around and is annoyed they can’t think for themselves.
Looking for someone to actually do the job he was hired to do four years ago. Desperate sounding ad for engineers.