Thread regarding Symantec Corp. layoffs

Choosing who stays based on what?

The suggestion that staff offers based on historic employment information and analytics seems quite risky.

Symantec products have been so broad and Broadcoms choice of products to take being so narrow, how on earth can the criteria used be sufficient to pick the correct person to handle the products in question.

Sales engineers with a very broad range of products under their belt but no specific expertise in one could bring issues during offer.

If a mid-market SE had their primary product as ESS with EDTR, who is then offered a contract to stay with a view to an enterprise proxy SG position would be so far out of their depth it would be crazy.

As I say, the use of the two methods above would not identify a persons existing product set and to what detail.

Thoughts?

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if you do not have product specific knowledge (Sales excluded) of the 3 product Art mentioned, you would likely be chopped.

If you do have product specific knowledge of the 3 products , still you might get chopped. if BCRM wants to keep just top 2000 accounts , They would also reduce number of engineers working on these 3 products as well .

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My guess is they will look at products which make money and keep the top 3 or 5 or X. It will be a quick decision given the close date. Also guess they have a target # of employees they will keep and most likely be architecture and development teams of the chosen top products.

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