Heard 15 more were let go today in consulting in HQ same, few hrs access available to sas. Apply to jobs from sas.com
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I get why he's focused on that, hosting rev is what keeps his job. The offshoring though... yeesh. Our leaders keep creating more long-term disasters.
CIS is a mess. There's no SRE function, no one really focused on scalable automation and observability. I actually wonder if anyone in CIS's leadership chain is even familiar with the 4 golden signals.....
A buddy moved from SAS to be an SRE at Apple. Said it's night and day.
CIS has network analysts who don't know things like, IDK, that ping uses ICMP and if that protocol is blocked, a ping to a host can't tell you whether it's up and running. (this is a common SRE interview question at the junior and intern level)
Or how to trace requests into our systems to determine where it's being terminated.....
I know this isn't unique to us, and we can't implement FAANG hiring filters because we don't offer FAANG packages or the same degree of interesting work, but my god. Can we at least get people in who know how computers work and don't throw tantrums when asked to learn things?
@1py Education was a support function and then they pressured them to profit. Same as PSD. Education helps sell software and should have been subsidised. Then they closed all the edu centers in the US even though people came back to the office. The bunch at the top is clueless
@t6, thanks for the 'izzat' reference. Combined with anther word "jugaad" that pretty much summarized how that office work.
hasn't turned a profit in ages
Was Education created as a profit center? I bet it was not.
WRAL says the number was 300.
https://www.wral.com/business/technology/sas-cuts-300-jobs-across-the-company-june-2026/
EDU has always been bloated and hasn't turned a profit in ages.
@nq EDU has always been bloated.
Heard all the cost savings are going into hosting so they can hire more. They work the
hardest so makes sense.
I was in multiple CIS all-hands meetings, and JU would only talk about Hosting. He never said anything about the infrastructure people that everything depended on. Those are the jobs that are being sent to Pune.
@sh
The word you are looking for is "izzat", and it perfectly explains the behavior you describe.
We moved a lot of roles to Pune. It’s a mess. The hiring filters there seem to be predicated on who is friends/family with the hiring manager. Absolute incompetence is the standard in that office.
Our id--t leaders seem to think cost cutting is actually a business strategy.
@qz Hire more… in Pune.
All hiring, to include currently posted positions, are being reevaluated and either moved to Pune, or closed all together.
That’s assuming it wasn’t already a ghost job to give the impression they’re growing.
@ra Yes… likely… but from what I hear it is more like pushing 1000’s of buttons, and I hear even then it doesn’t work. Don’t fix the problem though… just put the cost from the layoffs there… will help navigate to 2027 goal.
Heard all the cost savings are going into hosting so they can hire more. They work the hardest
Isn't deployment into the cloud just a button push?
Heard all the cost savings are going into hosting so they can hire more. They work the hardest so makes sense.
@q7 funny thing, I once did and they said no. 🤪
@ak call HR they’ll help you
If the statements here are true this seems like a medium layoff by SAS standards. Sounds like devs are safe this round…unless it’s continuing?
@fe small cabal in risk division flies around endlessly while the rest get told there is no budget for travel. Its the worst kind of politics.
Risk and Fraud division laid off dozens including most of the risk presales teams in the americas and asia pacific. Some senior deep subject matter experts got let go. The people who give credibility to the company
@fe I’m sure those in Marketing can justify it but I’ve always thought crowing about trips to Cannes is tone deaf at best. Especially at a time when profits are razor thin. Is this how we control costs?? Can anyone point to a true benefit to SAS? Does it get the SAS name out there? Maybe. It sure is great exposure for the executive(s) who have attended but I don’t see much value beyond that.
@fb I know of at least 1 director and 2 mgr in edu that were let go.
Mostly delivery team... but 1 from cert, 1 from solutions, 1 from stat group.
More than 400 laid off in EMEA this week and potentially more to come.
| I.T. took a pretty good hit this round.
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| They’ll be happy to hire you as a replacement, if you live in Pune.
This comment deserves thousands of up-votes.
I.T. took a pretty good hit this round.
They’ll be happy to hire you as a replacement, if you live in Pune.
@jj Hopefully R&D, I want my Labradoodle.
"EDU can't seem to miss a round of layoffs"
It's an unfortunate by-product of the increasing lack of demand for SAS software. Hate to see the decline, as SAS was such a great company to work for back in the day.
Hopefully PSD
layoffs happened all around the world this week, sad to see so many valuable people go
@fb I know of 2 managers in EDU laid off this week.
EDU can't seem to miss a round of layoffs
The travels of a secret love child?
The beatings will continue until morale improves,
Now enough about these unpleasantries. Who else is going to Cannes? And Paris and Milan and Liverpool and ... oh, is it just me and my besties? Whoops. Pardon my frequent flier miles, but how else can I take my fam on vacation several times a year? These are times of austerity you know. One must watch one's euros.
Multiple managers in edu
I’m not hearing of any managers or directors that got let go. Seems like it was all individual contributors.
A few folks from the Tech Support division got hit
@ee this thread this could all be BS, watch this:
292 in r&d let go, but severance included a puppy.
Is Legs still there in EDU?
Anyone know what groups were hit in EDU?