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Ravi is a fraud. Who the f— uses Hotmail I mean 365? Like Seagate, Ravi is taking the company back to the 1990's. We are doomed under his leadership. JUMP SHIP NOW
Dot Hill will not go away as STX does not make sense.
The CIO as chief strategy officer is all part of the illusion that Seagate has a strategy to support the story of growth for investors, suppliers, and employees. Just a story. Once the VP of corporate strategy left the CEO gave it to the SVP of business excellence and she was a disaster and still is so the CEO had to give the title to someone. The CIO had nothing to do since he cut IT to the bone and outsourced most of it and he got the strategy role in title only since he has no experience, no understanding of the customers, industry or markets but the investors believe it so it is worthwhile.
What qualifications does Ravi have for that? What products has he ever managed to produce in his tenure as a product strategist? Hasn’t he been at it for some time now? I predict that after he fails to produce any new revenue generating products his days are numbered.
Ravi is now in charge of new product development as well as CIO, His reward for cutting $50 million in 2-3 years out of IT is somehow qualifying to develop new products.
That notion is a bit curious to say the least. Outside of cutting staff and moving things to the Far East his qualifications are a bit thin for new products.
Look at all the spreadsheets finance and engineering uses. There is no need for IT systems in Seagate. A cow can never appreciate steak !
Sounds like you were sh!tcanned with those cleanups and were part of the sh!tcan team that never showed up to work.
I believe the expressed sentiment before the last two layoffs was pretty much to sh!tcan the data warehouse and business intelligence areas and go back to spreadsheets.
If you're going back to late 1990s volumes and revenues, you might as well go back to late 1990s IT.
Why the mention of IT and Ravi? Dot Hill is an engineering org, right?
Does anyone have information on the upcoming layoffs for those engineers?
Some of the VEEP eligible engineers who will be impacted will be kicking themselves for not taking the VEEP when offered.
Engineering will likely be hit hard. I heard that very few in engineering went for the VEEP even though many were eligible.
If we get rid of more IT who will tell me to reboot to fix every computer problem?
The problem is that the well of IT jobs to cut is running dry.
Better cut IT jobs than engineering jobs
“What’s Ravi gonna do next ?”
Although he has only been at Seagate for a short time his pattern is clear: cut-more-IT-jobs. If he could take away everyone’s laptop and have them use pencil and paper to save money he would do it.
What’s Ravi gonna do next ?
That's no shocker. The question is how far beyond DH this might go