Thread regarding F5 Networks Inc. layoffs

This board about f5 layoffs.....

Saw a date on the facebook entry into this board and noted it was September, 2017. Did a bit more of a deep dive and noted that you can go back in time by cliking the Older Topics button. It took me back to September, 2017 on this layoff.com site. I would encourage reading of all the older posts that have been made since September, 2017.

There are been many many many RIFs ("reorgs") since just after FLD became CEO. Everything changed when he became CEO and NOT for the better. You can only blame macroeconomics for so long. I can't think of one organically developed product that has made it to market and made a difference (please correct me if you know otherwise). 5 years of development for NEXT? Should have been at most 2 years if we were to remain competitive. The edict for SAFe, Scrum, Agile has proven to be a disastrous development approach and it only took some 5 years to figure that out.

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I am hearing about more layoffs in the Nginx space now. Can anyone confirm?

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Post ID: @1xqu+1prrZ2jf

Can we switch Togo man with ai? Or will ai be too smart for the switch?

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Post ID: @1ycv+1prrZ2jf

FLD and Kara just confirmed that 2024 would remain uncertain, and they can't predict further reductions of roles and "alignments".
On top of this, FLD said that engineers are seen as the operational cost, and the company would use "AI" to "reduce these costs".
If software or hardware engineers are seen purely as an operational cost for the software and hardware company, it speaks volumes!

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Post ID: @1mcm+1prrZ2jf

CEOs stay in companies for a few years, and VPs do the same. The only goal of these people is to get huge paychecks, bonuses and substantial share numbers. They don't give an F about technical products, quality of work, or engineering excellence. Make no mistake, what matters are results at NYSE. Nothing more!

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Post ID: @gwu+1prrZ2jf

The problems F5 had in development were leadership issues not methodological ones so moving to scrum with SAFe wouldn't fix anything except the Slalom principal's billable hour issue.

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Post ID: @hqn+1prrZ2jf

I remember the first RIF happened a few short months after FLD joined as CEO

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