Thread regarding Citrix Systems Inc. layoffs

List of dysfunctions

What are all the quirky and impractical way the company is run?

  • HR is run by a lawyer
  • No CIO in a year of IT transformation and system replacements
  • Half the company reports to a random person who is not their manager
  • Unlimited PTO but you need to request work from home days
  • Return to office while closing 75%+ of them
  • Forcing 5 days in office while selling remote work software
  • Demoting managers and reducing everyone's compensation
  • Cutting costs while the managers burn cash on $500/night hotels
  • Using every tactic to force out the best employees
  • Implementing a business unit structure as if it's a private equity firm... while owned by a private equity firm.
  • Somehow grow revenue from $4 billion to $20 billion while laying off half the sales team.
  • Paying a bunch of money for a branding firm, while laying off marketing, only to having a marketing intern draw a pointy-edged-fluffy cloud logo
  • A cut throat bonus plan based on uncontrollable financial metrics
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"I volunteer as tribute!"

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Post ID: @2gqi+1ltoJegC

Let me help add some color. You're welcome.

HR is run by a lawyer - (No, HR is run by a yes man who pretends to be a simple, likeable kinda guy when in fact, he's a calculated, cold backstabber)
No CIO in a year of IT transformation and system replacements - (No CIO worth their salt would ever work in a train wreck like CSG and especially not with a micromanager like TK)
Half the company reports to a random person who is not their manager - (More than half the managers at CSG should even have jobs, let alone management responsibility)
Unlimited PTO but you need to request work from home days - (Unlimited PTO is a way to keep PTO off the balance sheet, so don't be duped by that)
Return to office while closing 75%+ of them - (A sign of the longer-range plan to move engineering to offshore locations)
Forcing 5 days in office while selling remote work software - (Remote work software that no customers will want to buy in the medium term)
Demoting managers and reducing everyone's compensation - (A sign of dreadful leadership, but look at the "leaders" and tell me you expected anything different)
Cutting costs while the managers burn cash on $500/night hotels - (The managers have to have some way of justifying their incompetence)
Using every tactic to force out the best employees - (The best employees are long gone. Look at what remains)
Implementing a business unit structure as if it's a private equity firm... while owned by a private equity firm. - (The structure reflects the thesis. Not hard to understand why this is the way it is)
Somehow grow revenue from $4 billion to $20 billion while laying off half the sales team. - (The only way that's happening is with accretive acquisitions. Given the track record of acquisitions, good luck)
Paying a bunch of money for a branding firm, while laying off marketing, only to having a marketing intern draw a pointy-edged-fluffy cloud logo - (The biggest piece of humor in all of this is that there is no cloud software in the Cloud Software Group)
A cut throat bonus plan based on uncontrollable financial metrics - (Again, read the thesis)

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Post ID: @2xoy+1ltoJegC

May the odds ever be in our favor.

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Post ID: @nte+1ltoJegC

It is good that the CIO is leaving, that mo--n deleted all TIBCO employee email history

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Post ID: @pdm+1ltoJegC

Bone-headed stack ranking system that discourages teamwork.

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Post ID: @iwl+1ltoJegC

OP+1ltoJegC BINGO. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

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