He is showing his inexperience as a rookie CEO. If he thinks that he can grow this company by doing the large layoff he did today, he is just a fool.
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@at Sheetee was on the board the entire time during Sievert’s tenure, so it’s all one big circlej--kto increase the value of their shares.
@ae If Srini is just a puppet and everything is decided by the Board, he should just quit. Your hypothesis is wrong.
@a5 FALSE
Sievert is still on the board of directors.
So not a spotlight role.
This is all decided by the board, guys. Srini is just the puppet
@a7 Crashing Dominos website? #wedidthat
Hardworking employees pay the price for the mistakes of the je-ks at the top. If Srini was brought in to fix the issues, he is showing that he is not the right person for the job. Really, could he not think of anything else to help the company other than cutting headcount en masse?
T-Mobile has been nose diving since Legere left. The "uncarrier" died after the Sprint merger, and after this wave of mass layoffs, it's hit pure corporate level. It's just another AT&T effectively. Sad to see this company completely abandon what made them what they are today.
@a6 Giving away Little Caesar’s pizza is innovation?
@a2 Sievert is kind of a dichotomy to me. Many of Legere's successes were Sievert's brainchildren. T-Mobile Tuesdays, if I understand correctly, and some of the most exciting innovation T-Mobile did after the AT&T merger failed.
He certainly didn't carry that momentum into the CEO spot though.
Ulf's departure was the canary in the coal mine. He attempted to pursue a competitor to AWS and Azure the company lacked the foundational prerequisites and resources to meet them head-on with.
We can Monday morning quarterback until the cows come home, but from where I sit, Ulf hardly got a Viking funeral on his way out.
There were also burn-the-house-down holiday specials from competitors offering desperate unsustainable market-share grabs like "free iPhone 17s to your whole family if you switch."
In short, the buck stops at the CEO of course, but it was hardly the only factor at play here. It's also not a defense of Srini, but he did come into the job with some messes to clean up. I just wish there was a more creative solution that eliminating people who didn't necessarily have a hand in them.
@a2 Sievert is a total Shitbrain and everyone knows that, but he is gone. No point in fighting the last battle.
Sheetee is completely out of his depth and should have never gotten this position. I wouldn’t trust him to operate a tuk tuk in Calcutta.
He is a total failure
If spending was the problem, reducing headcount is not the solution. Cut out contractors if personnel costs should be reduced. Not comparing Srini to Sievert, but Srini is showing his inexperience.
Do you at least realize that all this happened because of Sievert's spending, right?
I don't like this guy either, but don't sweeten the worst ever CEO of tmobile