I've noticed more firings taking place than usual in the last few months. This is starting to look like the company is trying to thin out the workforce but without any extra expenses, such as severance. I have to admit, this is much scarier than layoffs. At least there's a safety net involved when you're laid off. When you're fired, you're screwed.
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Just confirmed. They are literally just starting to ki-l whole departments. They told a bunch of my old co-workers to either find new roles or they're being let go. I know the dirtbag manager I had will blame the Cisco acq cause he is a wimp, but man. This thing is turnign into a dumpster fire. Then again, from day one at splunk, it was run by some of the most disgusting humans I ever worked for. They are instruments of chaos. From day one, I realized, the managers there, man, they would NEVER be able to work in big tech. Well in serious roles. i hope the clowns that made all their money, drive their fancy SUV's are happy that they literally ruined people's lives to make Splunk what it is and soon what it will be. The day this company dies will be great. of course the products will be rebranded. hahahahahaha
A former colleague of mine got axed. A nice man. Great with customers. He was not last in. No surprise he was cut while they kept a few younger people. Well 20 years younger than him. Sad. Splunk was a sad place for me. it reminded me of the Wizard of Oz with the guy behind the green curtain. If you think Cisco wants you over there, they don't. They're tired of acquisitions. That's why they chopped their last few in half. This was long overdue for Splunk. No big deal. Hope Cisco kept their receipt.
Chopping the dead wood.
It started.
my lord. what a sh*t show. I am actually laughing now. Embarassed I worked there for the skunklords that ran my department. My God. When I look back now, they were pathetic clowns. Guys who never even were in the trenches. All for show. Wear the blazer with the splunk tee underneath like you actually matter. my role there was meaningless, but man, I realize that much of splunk was and is meaningless. their logs/siem, people finding out real quick you can do the same thing with free open source software. their money was made off word of mouth. it's nothing fancy. writing SPL isn't anything fancy. ingest and analyze. what OBIEE can do, what a ton of analytics tools can do. what a dump. skunkverse
They have been doing firings for years as part of their reduction in force. The reason why they never needed to do major layoffs and provide WARN notices is because they fire employees monthly as a practice. Usually the severance is minimum like 1 month for every year you've worked. As part of receiving that severance they force you to waive all liabilities and not disparage them on the Internet. Lol.
That is very scary….but given the ilk of the splunk mgmt, I am not surprised at all. Absolutely the worst company I’ve ever worked at. They will blame Cisco for it cause none of their managers ever “mans up”. I’m happy that in 5 years the company will be 1/10th of what it was. What I went through. What my family went through under my old manager and some of the people there, horrible experience and absolutely atypical to anything before or since in my life in tech. Over 20+ years. No love lost.
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