People are finally speaking up about who was laid off this week and let me tell you, it hit us hard. An entire team in my org was gutted after being moved to a new leader last quarter.
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I walked away after getting my bonus almost three years ago. But I check this site every February to watch the death spiral continue.
Move on. Life is too short.
TSB VP Product , who didnt meet revenue just had his ELT mtg. Proves that the rot is still employed but someone else is paying the price for his failures.
TSB was a 20 to 25% hit to all orgs. IT got hit 8 to 10% across all orgs. Based on what I've heard so far. I'm surprsed at some of the really good folks who were let go. The rest could be expected if you paid attention to their deliverables or lack of deliverables. Now I get to do 2 more peoples roles in addition to the 2 I picked up last year. Just keep plugging away is all I can do.
"Dell - where innovation goes to die."
Broadcom: "Hold my beer"
EMC was bought years ago. People in Dell need to move on. You can complain all you want about EMC people, but it’s your archaic management structure that has allowed me to quiet quit the last 4 years.
I’ve been moved from manager to manager to manager and none of them know what I do. All they do know is I have loads of options and so I must be good at my job - and so I get more options. This stuff writes itself.
Congrats to the smooth brain who came up with the new naming convention for Dell laptops too. Dell - where innovation goes to die.
“An entire team in my org was gutted after being moved to a new leader last quarter.“
Who’s the leader/what org?
"Let us guess, you did work that was applicable 15 years ago at EMC and thought you'd ride out your career doing the same thing every day when it doesn't provide any value."
EMC was a far more valuable company than Dell. Only the far reaching incompetence of the leaders of Dell could have made it unprofitable.
To the comment about EMC people sc--w you - EMC was the best place to work with talented people - much better than the Dell He-l culture
Dell learning got hit pretty hard. Like 16% I believe (80 people)
our senior manager was let go with no replacement as of yet. WHen you cut the head of the snake, it usually dies. I'm sure we'll be next.
I recall being told how Telco was going to be the next big thing for us, worth 15bn as an opportunity. We have a weathervane strategy, whichever way the latest IT buzz word wind is blowing, that’s what we are suddenly going to be surfing until the next gust comes along.
I was shocked at one of the names I saw laid off yesterday. A very passionate individual who has been backfilled by a yes man. Another company will appreciate his skills no doubt.
telco garbage not cleaned out yet. They have been successful in hiding in AI org.
Let us guess, you did work that was applicable 15 years ago at EMC and thought you'd ride out your career doing the same thing every day when it doesn't provide any value.
I know that telco services and others in telco took a huge headcount reduction.
Yeah, I feel you. Some of the people I found out were let go this week were truly great at their jobs and leave me thinking "why in the world would you lay this person off?" It's going to take a while to pick up the pieces from their loss. And these are teams that had already seen significant cuts in the last year.
I honestly don't know what Dell's end game is. It's hard to sustain this large of a portfolio when you keep gutting the teams that keep products afloat. Are they going to cut entire products, solutions, services?
What org..?
Org or product info please?