Depending on the level, managers would have a vague idea. In a matrix type management like QCOM, it may be that the Director/Senior Director of the functional team would have an idea of Engineer to Staff Engineer level cuts. VP's would have an idea of which Principal or Director would be on the block. There will be last minute changes - if some VP finds a way to reduce some cost in say a tool license it may save an engineer's job - so, if 10% cost saving happens to be 20 people in the VP's team, maybe she/he need to shorten the list to 19 instead of 20. So, you may be the lucky 19th person and your buddy may be the unlucky 20th person.
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List is all final as of now
September 25 .
There are probably people with better info than I have, but I don't think low level managers know yet. VP probably knows, but they probably aren't allowed to communicate it yet.
Probably depends on your group, mine was run horribly. My experience was that my line manager didn't even know I was being laid off. I had to tell him after the fact, matrix reporting. The VP called a 1:1 teams meeting the morning of to inform me, I'm remote. He didn't even know what project I was working on, what a joke.
Lists are mostly final. There are still changes happening at the edges.
Lists are mostly final. They don't decide the list one day before sending out notices.
Lists are final per my VP
@rku+1oKiE7b7 'Are lists finalized' and 'When will the layoffs be announced' are the two most important questions. Nothing else is more important than these two things. Since the upper management phalluses are mum about it all, the rest of us have to resort to getting information from anonymous messages boards.
I come back here maybe every 5 days, and it’s the same id--tic question: “Are lists finalized? Do they know yet?”
It would be better if people stopped clogging message boards unless they have something worthwhile to add.
If the entire team is going to be laid-off then even the managers don't know and sometimes even the directors don't know if the layoff planning is done in a different country from where your director and managers are located. This happened in my tech company where all the planning was done by international upper management and they only let my manager know the day (at 5PM during international time zone). We all got a email from my manager to be on a call at 9AM and it was required everyone attend the call. Also, they don't add the HR person on the To\CC list, but the HR person showed up at the 9AM meeting and instructing us what would happen going forward with severance, official layoff notice, when we can collect unemployment, when we are off payroll (due to state's mandatory 60 day WARN notice), etc.
Managers don't know yet as the list is not finalized.
I would think so. Unless the VP is holding it until a certain time given by HR.