Brace yourself for another turmoil as early as spring next year. Management pushes "products" on customers without getting any feedback. There is no market research, direct conversations with customers, or iterations on product feature development.
What customers want doesn't matter. As long as the "vision" lives in the Chef Product Officer's head, the company will be on the path to a grave.
What past successes in product development does she have? What industry products did she bring to markets? Most of the product development activities resemble those from the far past. From what I see, most of the "visionaries" from the management should sign up for the Indie Hackers community to learn the basics about product market fit ideas.
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Engineering titles re-org brought to you by Santa! Another desperate move to show to the shareholders "some activities". This nonsense will "help" products gain more traction and increase sales and customer satisfaction! Changing business cards and titles from "Senior Software Engineer" to "Senior Engineer, Software" will make F5 "great again"! That's what F5's customers value most, including skin colour, nationality or nightlife preferences of engineers building software and hardware products.
"what did Mika do but cashing on her 5 digits RSUs. What did Anna do but preach "Human 1st" while hired only black then handing out pink slips."
It looks like the behaviour of a parasite. Arrive, su-k blood (money) from the organism (a company), damage it and leave and jump to another company to do the same.
HR and CMO left due to contract expiration. The board of directors did not approval a renewal due to they are too expensive. Their ROI is low. Ask those in Marketing team, what did Mika do but cashing on her 5 digits RSUs. What did Anna do but preach "Human 1st" while hired only black then handing out pink slips.
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What? F5 leadership is the best. Super smart. On the rocket ship to 5 billion+ revenue/year. Massive growth. The transformation is complete. Bonus payouts will return in 2024. Hiring and moving development to India is awesome. Expect more acquisitions to accelerate growth. Gawd the move to get everyone back to office improved moral and productivity. One happy family in the Tower. Yippie Yah Whoooo
Are you sure execs leaving are top performers? Typically jumping ship to smaller, private companies (or sinking ships like Lumen) is someone getting out before they are moved along for lack of performance at F5.
The question we should be asking ourselves is why are all the top performing Execs (HR, Marketing, NA Services, Service Providers) all leaving for much smaller companies? What do they know that we don't?