Judging from LinkedIn, Hitachi Vantara is way more focused on DEI virtue signaling than technology.
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I keep getting more and more emails about DEI, today my email was about deconstructing masculinity. WTAF? Next it's going to be topics like "how not to be white". Thankfully my filters are catching pretty much all of this garbage email. I didn't think anything could be as bad as Jack Welch, but here we are.
I guess Mark and Scott didn't agree with all of the DEI activities
So much invaluable data, very little true expertise to make use of most of it by even 2010 standards, let alone 2023 standards. Immense excel spreadsheet use last I witnessed.
Obsessed with arbitrary adherence to ancient legacy solutions and limited walled gardens pitched by salesmen who are convincing only to those who don't know any better (HV leadership), and everything of immense potential value is sadly outsourced to the lowest cost labor countries with terrible quality of living, with entire business entities completely housed in India. The outcome is obvious to most with global tech experience in the 'western' world.
A senior software developer, as an example, will be hard pressed to find passion in their work and company when making on average $7k a year in India, as opposed to on average $140k+ a year in the United States. It is not in the same world of standard of living. You must ensure your workforce has their needs met and exceeded, if you wish your company to meet and exceed the expectations of tech business today, because that is the bar set by the competition. The bar is even higher when you compete on the global scale.
To inexperienced business leaders making tech-related business decisions, extreme low cost labor is cheap and equivalent alternatives, but the equivalency is false.
This is a symptom. HV leadership are unfortunately terrified of spending money yesterday and today, in order to make themselves much more efficient and modern tomorrow. To even keep up with other competitors. They will talk the talk in social media posts and internal emails and presentations, but will not spend the money required to walk to walk. So it is all talk, all these years. Inaction. This is why the ship is on fire.
For 15 years, this is what happens when you gravitate towards cheap global labor to attempt to solve complex global technological and data problems.
There is very little that is truly "data-driven" here, as they lack the tools and expertise to be so. They lack the expertise and passion in order to develop sufficient tools. The workers cannot be blamed. They are simply trying to survive in the country they live. In many companies this is very difficult to truly determine, but in HV it is very simple to see.
Leadership must only be derived from those who truly understand that there are fundamental reasons the labor in these chosen countries is incredibly inexpensive. It is not arbitrary. It is not some magical insight to outsource and offshore to the lowest of all costs.
I imagine however that this type of leadership that is needed, would not be offered the incentives they are offered in the modern western tech industry. Their workforce most certainly is not.
A ship like this can crash and burn very slowly for 20 years and so it can be difficult to gain insight, but it is crashing and burning due to these fundamental issues.
Due to these ongoing issues that seem to have no end in sight, I believe past and present leadership is simply there to take what they can before they move onto their next role.
I do not see any indication from executives that there is a desire to see this subsidiary flourish. Rot remains somewhere up high.
You can never have enough DEI
Hitachi Vantara is completely irrelevant in the tech industry. I guess their obsession with pride this year is an attempt to be relevant in some capacity. Unfortunately, they are behind the curve on that just like they are with everything else.
Amen.. multiple emails every day about DEI. They need to concentrate on selling more and less on those things that do not bring in revenue.
Last week they held a drag bingo session with queens. Ridiculous...