I am working on a Gen ai product and I have a meeting to demo that to the HIH team and the contractors. I have worked hard on the project and looks like the team in HIH wants to takeover? Idk. What to do?
7 replies (most recent on top)
I’ve shared process documents on how to do something with HIH. I might as well have sent them A blank document since they understood nothing.
You are sc--wed. The corporate overloards have laid down the law. It will go over to HIH and most likely 95% of mid band 4s and below currently on this project will be out of a job. the only reason you still have a job is to transition the project. This is going to happen. stalling will keep a few more paychecks comming in, but they will move it, with or without your help.
HIH will run over cost beyond the initial savings, and what it would have cost to keep it in house. As they try to do the work, they will blame those who were let go, that will work for a while, but eventually they will outsource the work to get it done, again driving cost to the moon and timelines to slip by months, if not years. Results don't matter, looking like they are working on AI is whats important to the investors for now.
But in the short term, the corporate overlords will collect thier golden parachutes and performance bonuses based on the short term savings. Meanwhile, enough of the corporation will be sold off that many of these projects will be cancelled anyways as part of the downsizing. The Cigna group will be a much smaller corporation in a few years.
Make sure they are really from HIH and not an non-Indian American that happens to look Indian.
Schedule it at the least convenient time for them. Drag your feet. Then bury them with loads of useless documentation. Thet have zero creative thinking.
I did the same. I reviewed high level details and asked to schedule a meeting at a later time.
@OP Tell them to always base the datasets and align the output to what is on Reddit.
I’d suggest slowing down their progress as much as possible. Maybe start with a 30-minute meeting to provide a high-level demo. They will likely ask for the deck, Confluence pages, or any documentation you’ve created. That’s really what they need in order to review and understand the work, so I would delay sharing those materials as long as possible and keep your documents locked.
You could wait a week or two before scheduling a deeper dive. Even if you set up the meeting, you could push it to the following week due to a “meeting conflict.”
From my experience with HIH, they’re not really the brains behind the operation, we are. Without your involvement, they will struggle significantly. I’m currently dealing with something similar. Because of the approach I’ve taken, someone in HIH who does work similar to mine has been stuck in project discovery for about 10 months.
I’m the SME, and recently my director asked me to review their work and provide feedback to help move the project forward. Instead, I suggested that I take over the project and that the HIH resource could support as an assistant. I also pointed out that the project has stalled long enough and that we haven’t seen anything tangible come out of HIH. I added that while the company wants to leverage HIH resources overall, our team’s success and goals are being compromised if we continue down this path.
Now I’m waiting to hear back from my director, they said they want to think about it.