Thread regarding T-Mobile layoffs

Outsourcing mobile development

The big red flag for mobile development in the Overland Park headquarters was when TMO spent three years refusing to let the team rewrite the ancient and clunky flagship app, then blamed them because it wasn't a "world class" app or user experience. He actually said that to the entire company, then backed it up by bringing in an outside vendor to do the rewrite. Never mind the whispers about his prior association with that vendor company, which is bad enough.

Throwing under the bus the team who had been keeping TMO's apps afloat, even with the handcuffs on funding and a bizarre lack of direction, is a pretty large indicator that TMO wasn't interested in doing much more than selling itself to customers through marketing gimmicks, not solid engineering and products.

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Post ID: @OP+1mx3ic78

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The company is WillowTree in questoin, and after "awarding" WillowTree the development work in late 2022, he did "step away" in January 2023 - LOL.

What is great, is when he joined WillowTree on April 6th, 2021, this quote "Having a former client on the board is invaluable. There’s no substitute for having the client’s perspective in the room," says Tobias Dengel, WillowTree's CEO

HA, especially when he brings you back on!

https://www.prweb.com/releases/willowtree_welcomes_marcus_east_cdo_of_t_mobile_to_board_of_directors/prweb17831247.htm

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Post ID: @ebvw+1mx3ic78

Define corrupt, or was that the previous team in Bellevue?

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Post ID: @eyxi+1mx3ic78

Mobile device team is corrupt. I used to be on that team

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