Informed this week engineering and product moving to COEs July 1.
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This company is shutting down a site that handles some mission-critical products and shipping everything off to some low-cost center that's completely unprepared to take over.
The customers are about to get blindsided by service issues they never saw coming. And you know what's really crazy? The company will end up spending way more fixing this mess than whatever they think they're saving.
You've gotta wonder what these decision-makers were thinking. It's like watching someone sell their car's engine to save on gas money. Just mind-blowing short-term thinking at its finest.
After being hit by the layoffs myself (EMEA non-COE), spoke to a few precious long-time colleagues in India. Even though they are not in danger of layoffs, and are very strong engineers, their morale seems to be at the bottom, and they are considering to leave either way. Totally understand them, seeing such strong and mission-critical teams let go altogether.
Being an Indian in NA i agree 👍 another reason I had to quit and move here.
Workers in India are good at implementing clearly defined specifications but cannot innovate. That’s where they miss the mark.
Cycles expect you will soon want to restart your projects using talent in North America .
I have some Indian counterparts that are sharp as he-l.
But, no one there can be handed things they have never been apart of and expect to succeed.
I've seen several product lines fail when handed off because of inept leadership and lack of skills.
You cannot replace decades of experience with cheap labor.
Now, from OT perspective, they may not care at all. Once something gets run into the ground or while its on its way to tanking, they know they have a small grace period before it has to be replaced.
Check out the r/developersIndia subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/developersIndia/) and search for "opentext" – you’ll find multiple posts where developers advise others to avoid working at the company, citing negative experiences shared by the community.
Things would get worse once handed over to India. I've never seen a company perform well when they outsource IT to India. I am not a racist, but I have been dealing with Indian workers for the past 20 years. What I got and learnt is that they are rude, passive aggressive, make a lot of empty promises about work, play d-mb when assigning tasks or being asked questions, dishonest, condescending (if your level is lower than theirs), have no SOP, and keep the old system as long as everything seems worked. Always desire to be in a managerial position; once there, they are hand-free and only forward tasks to their staff without hands-on.
Am I complaining?