Performance metrics are ridiculous

Look out everyone, orgs are now monitoring everyone's AI usage to fit with our glorious leadership's new decrees that we are now an AI-first company. If you aren't shoehorning AI into every part of your daily workflow, you are considered a bad employee and will soon be replaced by someone who is better at kissing a-s and BS'ing about how much they've multiplied their productivity by using the custom cr-p tools from the Copilot suite. Dadlani's posts asking everyone about how AI has improved their work experience are always met by shameless a--kissing from offshore managers about how their team is 3x faster than before and getting head pats for it while level headed managers who are pointing out how AI is not a magic one-size-fits-all panacea to this company's tech debt and other core issues are being completely ignored.

You've been warned, this company's headless leadership pivoting towards AI and making it a priority is not an idle threat. They genuinely believe that if everyone, even the janitors, are not using AI, then they are replaceable. Absolutely clueless and out of touch people forcing managers to choose who to fire based on unrelated criteria to their work.

#Policy #Performance #Morale

Comment! It's anonymous!

7 replies (most recent on top)

If you aren't looking for a new job you're messing up. Optums tech has been a tire fire burning for years now. There are still tech companies and medical companies that move slower hire only americans and offer superior services for it. Get in on one then before they get acquired and those jobs are sent overseas as well

I was told to get a 4 or 5 this year, the employee must have worked on an AI project. This was in Optum Tech. The issue is, there aren’t always opportunities to do it as AI should not be in every product we make. But I guess leaders don’t understand that.

Copilot is great for writing....emails, blogs, Facebook, Instagram.. It is not great at actually being helpful in a solution that already exists. It tells me to do things in the longest manner possible and when I suggest simplification due to my extensive years as a developer, it is full of praises, like I am teaching it. Someday after being taught by all of us humans, like any good machine learning process, it will be able to suggest better solutions. For now, it is a helper who is still trying to learn the tech and apply it to novel situations.

I've spent more time trying to get a valid suggestion from Copilot for something I'm working on than if I had just gone to the actual documentation page for the product I'm trying to configure.

It loves to suggest things which are deprecated, so that's fun. I'm not sure why we're expected to lean on it so much when it's outdated compared to how fast open source projects move.

Trying to rush teams into '100x faster' mentality is a terrible idea when you're dealing with PHI/PII. Also, this push to the cloud can be a disaster. Trying to migrate as fast as you can, using AI solutions, probably equates to the equivalent of opening all ports on a firewall just to get it implemented and running in time to meet a deadline.

What kind of leadership is that?

Not to mention, the constant re-tooling we do as an organization. Constant refactors to migrate to new systems and services as the company replaces them to save a few cents...

I heard directly from senior leadership that they are using the list of people who dont do AI dojo to form the next layoff list. Optum tech

stop caring

Copilot is garbage

Thread regarding Optum layoffs

Performance metrics are ridiculous

7 replies (most recent on top)

Post a reply