Yes, its rough this year but at the same time many of us will get to keep our jobs and Symantec is still one of the best companies in the world. I worked here before the Veritas/Symantec split. There were and still are a lot of good people who work here, management it outstanding. I loved working here due to the flexibility of being able to work from home from time to time... Cannot complain and I hope I am here after layoffs.
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"Find The Right Balance" (FTRB), they said, "I'd outsource my ballsack if I could," David Thompson said...here's some ISO's (carrot) they said. Give it more time... more acquisitions... more culling... it will balance... at least that's what they said.
Symantec has laid off people recently hired in lower cost regions and retained expensive Senior Directors and Vice Presidents in USA. Fresh teams are being recruited to move operations to Mountain View, CA. Not sure how laying off low cost workforce and spending money on hiring an expensive workforce will add value to the bottom line. Quickly laying off resources hired recently has also created a reputation as an unstable employer for Symantec.
Symantec is running around like a chicken with its head cut off!!!
Chaotic and very slow processes and management, old legacy unmaintainable software with crap code, lot of negativity and uncertainty and no focus on technology and innovation.
Rather than posting here which results in nothing making claims you have to explain medical absences to you team - which if true (highly doubtful) would be illegal - why not do the obvious thing and get HR involved? Immediate actual solution.
As far as the WFH situation, despite that email it still varies by team. Some entire teams were in the office lass than 50% of the time. I'm sure they are the ones most compaining that they were called out for it.
Oh and Hey @HoBZ2lF-2qwm, perhaps you should pull your arrogant head out and actually read the company policy on sick time. Also, notice that in workday for vacation, their is a checkbox for sickness. We'd suggest you get your facts straight before you continue to make an idiot out of yourself.
Now the situation in Cambridge goes further down the toilet. Mike B has stated that Samir intends to eliminate ALL WFH options for all groups in Cambridge. Welcome to Symantec High School! Make sure you sign your daily attendance sheet before you go to gym class.
Some of the best people I have ever worked with during my 9 years at Symantec, but my take is this, Symantec hires great people and then craps on them, a few of those people they make in to Managers and Supervisors and those people become A--holes!, the culture of management there is the worst I have ever seen, I actually had two different Supervisors there tell me that if you aren't happy here, quit, there are 50 people out there looking for a job, my first 5 years there I didn't get single raise (and it wasn't just me, basically the whole department) I always had top review scores each year but it was always "Sorry, we just don't have the money this year" (as they acquired company after company)
Wrong. Did you ever use any of the tools needed to do the job? One starts with an O. Complete and utter garbage that made it IMPOSSIBLE to do the most simple things in a normal amount of time.
Well at least they yearly had 20 Mill or so to send all the sales gang to a drinkathon in Vegas or whatever.
With any large company, your experience can really vary based on your department. They do have frequent layoffs. (Jun 2013, Jan 2015, Jun 2016 for larger ones and several smaller ones in between those dates). MSS (a.k.a MeSS) is a disaster, stay away unless you like working in chaos with clueless management that refuses to do anything to change that. They can't deliver anything. There is also a negative culture in that group that thinks you get more by putting people down. Cambridge- you need to like working with open desks, no cubes. One manager, Mike B, thrives on berating developers. (he is a bully) Yes, they are moving to the "unlimited days off" where your manager has to approve any time off, and Mike actually said that if you are sick you need a doctors note and need to tell your entire scrum team exactly why you were out. How is that even legal? Your health is none of anyone else's business. Two years ago several people complained to HR about him and surprise, surprise, they were let go in the Jan 2015 layoff.
It had not been a stable company since I started 4 years ago and is getting wirse. And now they are going to riff even more people abs send more jobs to Pune. They have now stated that they are considering selling off the Enterprise business. I cannot say this is a good company to work for when my job has gotten busier, more difficult and less secure every year while raises have been less than 2 % a year even though I've had stellar reviews. They are dumping their US employees and the customer and partners suffer for it.
I started at the very beginning too, when things were good, they were a small co that cared about their employees. Now its just a corporation that will slit your throat to get what they want, been laid off from there twice, and the last 10 years there were the worst!! Always felt like you were on the chopping block, NO job security, their internal tools suck and the management sucked....soooooo many people worked there that did not know what they were doing or didn't do their job....worst years of my life!!
Actually, our team is in Cambridge and we have WFH for the team, which as anyone knows is a team-by-team decision. It's also a misrepresentation to say you have to use PTO for sick days since that is not the policy at all. The company is moving to a model of "unlimited days off but no PTO accrual" which is entirely different from your description. The company is not "trying to make people quit" - why would they? Sounds like maybe you should consider it though.
I used to work for that POS company, I started in the glory days in the 90's and was laid off due to piss poor management decisions. Ontop of the glut and bloated pay scales for "engineers" that are a dime a dozen. I hope that company disappears soon and everyone working there gets a slap of reality soon!
Work from home? You obviously don't work in Cambridge. Management there just terminated everyone's WFH status. The QATS manager also dictated any sick time must use PTO. They're trying to make people quit. Symantec's future is done. They're too old, stuck in M$ land, and unable to even keep their infrastructure running correctly.