I feel like we need more IT not less, but it looks like the plan is to just cut a percentage and rehire at much lower rates.
Get your resumes ready…
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Just got word that they are refocusing leads in EUS to doing the weekend coverage skeleton crew work, where before every EUS tech had to do 2-3 weekend days a year in a rotation. There aren't that many EUS leads.
Also, lead and senior roles are no longer available to EUS techs in the call centers for them to promote into.
It feels like they may move to replacing EUS in the CECs with a contractor company called Compucom like they did years ago.
For all the naysayers that say that another layoff isn't written on the wall: they not only cut back down to 40 hours limit of carry over on PTO but also now allow for a negative balance to be used, but they also split up the vesting times for stock. Cut back dramatically on the corporate bonus payout and drastically reduced the pay increase percentage, even though Seivert is claiming best numbers ever. It's to help cut down on severance costs after they learned their lesson from the last massive layoff.
Interesting how everyone uses the blame game. Business changes direction on a dime. PMs aint PMng and program mgrs barely oversee a program until its FLAIMING RED. You guys realize it all rolls downhill right? Dev can't deliver and you blame QA when cr-p doesnt work. Oh by the way, we are burning through money now that we have multiple QA teams (that sqar team and the product qa team) to test code that is delivered a month late and then doesn't work properly. And THEN, they are asked to staff a larger team to bang up against the bad code. You guys need to get a grip. The Company is failing to address the real issues. Everyone is worried about saving face and the only ones who survive are the ones that are part of the gang. Sprint people talk about how bad TMO is. TMO people talk about how bad Sprint people are. Learership is a mixture of both - get a grip!
Are you all doing your jobs?
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Seems like he can count to around $31 million according to his net worth.
4 teams because Nestor likely can't count higher than 4.
There is a desire to get to four major 'platforms', outsource a bunch, and have two major SI's.
IT leadership (Director+) is not capable of executing on that vision.
Source: Trust me bro
Cite your source on this? Not much left to cut in IT. FTEs were cut to the bone last year and we lost our ability to deliver anything. NTWs are being pushed to overseas locations with a goal of 70% offshore by the end of 2025. As much as Nestor and his peers might want to cut cost TMO still needs to innovate and deliver for shareholders. I know from meetings last week that a VERY small percentage of IT employees will be let go later this year for performance reasons. I have heard nothing about massive layoffs.
It's quite sad they didn't slash In-Lab as soon as they booted the CDO. That team hasn't produced an ounce of value since it was formed -- not even since they desperately pivoted to AI.
Looks like someone is drinking Marcus’s Kool-Aid of “digital first.”. T-Mobile is a telecommunications company first, then a technology company. Investing in digital and data science is essential to stay relevant, and they’re doing great in that area. However, the id--t CDO tried to turn them into Google with Innovation Lab, OKR, R2D2 cr-p, which T-Mobile is NOT and is not its core business. The same id--t created the In-Lab and handed to Abi, even though we already had a Technology Lab run by great Erin. Glad that id--t is gone. Our real issue is reorganizing every other quarter, and yes, we have too many directors, Sr. Directors, and VPs.
Overbloated and very weak technical skills in key areas of IT especially in the development testing areas. This is where the cuts need to come, from QA and Development teams as there are far too many levels of mgmt which impede innovation and efficiency, time to weed out the excess
It’s the Sprint model guys. Plain and simple. Honestly, given the old T-Mobile is dead and we are now the new Sprint, why are we surprised how this company is being run? Layoffs were always looming at Sprint.
I hate what our company has become. Sprint is a cancer that ki-led another great company.
How are they going to attract "top talent" paying less than what they pay now? And how much money does this really save if they're still shelling out a $150/hour for NTWs left and right?
This is simply their cost effective plan in to deal with the morale issue.
I believe T-Mobile is a utility company - not technology. Telephony has always been utility. That is a big part of our problem: we are trying to be something we ain't! Walmart and GM also use data analytics and AI; are they now "Tech Companies "?
I do agree you can't have to much OT, engineers, developers in a tech company. To many middle managers? Yes. And I know T-Mobile is a telecom, but... Telecom is tech no matter who likes to argue it.
However, given a lot of the "digital first" and AI initiatives are in place, I foresee them championing AI solutions more than anything else.
My suggestion? Learn data science. Learn Python, pyspark, pypi, etc. Learn to write routines for AI. Make yourself as marketable as possible in the AI realm. Knowledge is power.