people in my office were laid off yesterday. Anyone else?
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When is next layoff in USA ?
NXP went from engineering focused to please stockholders. Laying off experienced engineers to make profit, hire new college graduates to fill those positions and lose all acknowledge to forced retirement engineers, the true North Star of NXP and their new CEO
@1hh It doesn't matter. But all of you should start looking, if you're not already. Unless you're one of them. They're lurking here, because who else would down vote my first comment?
@1hc did you land on a job ? After a year of layoff. How much % hike ?
@187 It's been over a year since my layoff. They're still there, thriving. So don't hold your breath. In a toxic environment, poison is gold.
@14w corrected above. it's TTTA
@13z 1100 is TTTA headcount now a part of NXP, not Aviva.
Weed and feed
When will the directors or senior directors get laid off ?? Waiting for my ex managers to be kicked go cirb . Will be sad if he gets vsp . I pray his family see the pain I saw .
@14b 200 or less
@141 what's the actual?
More layoff coming next year ?? Any update on this ?
@13z thats not a correct headcount for avalinks
@vd Gotta make room the avivalinks acquisition. $243M + the 1100 person headcount.
@xf Management Team
@xf Management Team
@vd what is MT?
@sy I don’t think they can do it in Germany and some other parts of Europe due to strong automotive industry influence
@vr yeah that damn North Star. Lol every time I hear that I throw up a little in my mouth.
@vm and it still tanked the stock lmao, people on my team were on mass asking about layoffs in Germany, so far management has denied the possibility but I don’t believe them. The moral is quite low and the bullsh-t Rafael is trying to push to with their new North Star blablabla I ain’t buying. Idk what is the purpose to steer the entire company into embedded ai chips when it is a unproven market that does not yet exist. Beside the couple of demos of embedded ai it has no purpose in mision critical situations where deterministic behavior is expected. Engineering is getting squeezed even more by the day with less personnel. In the lab we have maybe 2 to 3 people actually doing the stuff and the rest are glorified and excel rats that come up every week with glorified new frameworks that only make the work over complicated. We had people hired with the only purpose to feed our sh---y already documentation into ai for easy search when we could have just more personal in the lab actually doing the job. It is so funny to have my manager tell me I am not important cuz now he can manage to write some bullsh-t with copilot so the whole software side of things is a solve problem according to them. I hate this company and it is an embarrassment to the legacy of former colleges I had.
@vk I could not agree more.
@vd I'm wondering if Kurt saw it coming and simply jumped the boat, or maybe was even fired, but they invented this story of retirement just to avoid stocks going down
@v2 I ask myself the same question. It's seems that once you join the management club, they protect themselves like in an absolute monarchy, so they let go excellent engineers because "they cost too much for the company", but the same clueless managers G5, G6 and G7 are there reorg after reorg. NXP is becoming a bureaucratic company focused on short time financial results rather than an innovative engineering company. This transformation is getting away of semiconductor engineering and becoming a system solutions sales. Better change the name of the company from NXP Semiconductors to NXP Systems Solutions then
@sz hi was it related to those compliance trainings I had done them in last minute before they gave me the bad news
@rt whole sites in Europe are being targeted -- just look at the landscape of the new MT -- it's only going to shrink further. The only sites not hit hard were in India, but that's because attrition has been very high.
@v2 They are there essentially to collect your status and you need to work hard so that each week they can update the ppt and forward it.
Some of the senior directors are useless. Their entire career all they did something else but now in charge of entirely different domain. Sound clueless in meeting. Why do we have such folks as managers. Purge directors and senior directors who are have push mentality and statues collectors.
@OP don't forget to make sure you complete your ethics & sustainability training. Know Right..Do Right... unless you're an exec
@rt no they are cutting globally and Europe will start January.
@qb they are strengthening in Europe. They are definitely slow burning in the US.
Reality check will hit themm sooooo hard.
I don’t know if Raf and upper management knows how weakened engineering have been for 3 consecutive years.
Backbone litteraly obliterated
@db it's strategic and it's ridiculous. Bean counters are going nuts. Excellent engineers with strong technical knowledge and 25 or 30 years in the company since Motorola are let go, but useless middle managers (I can easily name 5 in my division without thinking much) and others people pleasers, marketing, are all there getting their big salaries to do minimum or no contribution to the product portfolio of the company.
@OP The entire Chandler RF power group were layed off. Also the Toulouse and China. The entire division. Nxp doesn't want to be in the business anymore
Lots of great engineers were let go, but a lot of useless marketing directors still there.
@f5 No it wasn't target at people in multiple projects (by what I understand from your statement). This is impacting every team...unfortunately..so sad but business restructuring is quite normal these days in all companies..
@ew surprise there is no voluntary retirement package first this time.
@f2 seems correct, but January? Any confidence on this information? The layoffs are across most regions.
Reading these post this morning, brings back those memories of when it happened to me. Best of luck to all affected.
My status collector manager in Austin is there but I got laid off! Anyone including myself can collect status and forward ppt but he can’t do what I was doing.
@ew surprised to hear that SJ had more layoffs today. I asked the manager and HR and they said only my position had been impacted in the office as I was laid off on Tuesday. Were many people/teams laid off? Was it targeted at people between projects? Do you have more information?