Every 4 years is time to really whack away at the overgrowth so new growth can occur. This concept is still alive and well in the brains of Wilson and Rizzo. Nothing like saving money on their biggest liability, USA jobs. Off to more fertile lands where the labor is cheap and plentiful.
13 replies (most recent on top)
I worked with Kamal and can confirm what everyone has said. He really doesn’t know much and is totally arrogant
Not sure if it’s from the last round or another one, but seeing more posts on LinkedIn about being laid off from the ASC/Product teams
Today is the Property Liab Connections meeting. Anyone have any idea what will be discussed?
Is this the same Kamal that pretended to be a transformational Claims SVP? He didn't listen then either.
Offshoring can be reversed, but this systematic dismantling of Allstate internally will be much harder to turn around when fails... if there's anything left of Allstate to turnaround.
Zulfie/Kamal/Manish. The id--ts behind the reorg to XP programming teams. Eliminated Most product owners, scrum masters, and PMs in favor of having engineers code and also manage cross-AOR complex programs. Planning and communications are no longer important. Sh-t magically happens. Why are those id--ts still here?
You cannot have id--ts like Kamal in charge! The guy knows nothing about IT and is arrogant enough to try and direct IT professionals, hence the cluster fu-k that everyone knows about but is too afraid to speak up for fear of job loss. Pathetic "leadership". Have these guys Kamal, Zulfie, and Manish accomplished anything of value? Look at their profiles, meteoric rise based on nepotism and Indian connections. What a sh---y company to work for!
Offshoring hasn’t made a dent in lowering technology costs
It's cultural command and control. They think they're doing something revolutionary but what they're really doing is just dictating the company follow the latest fad-product centric teams. It's the 'thing.' They're just grasping at other people's straws.
The difference being they don't care about participative leadership. They're just going to dictate it to the company. Offshoring jobs to a culture that does what they're told when they're told and doesn't push back on being worked at an unsustainable pace to deliver on pre-determined deadlines so the big boys can keep getting big bonus checks is part of that strategy.
Zulfi has a thick layer of reality insulation around him as does the rest of senior management. He actually thinks we have the company he talks about because that's what the yes men underneath him are telling him to maintain THEIR positions. If he or Kamal accidentally get honest feedback, the yes men assure him that their illusion is reality.
I'd be less concerned about the offshoring of jobs and more concerned about Kamal and Zulfi's decision making in pretty much every other area. From what I'm hearing, they don't take "no" for an answer and it's a literal dumpster fire below them due to the decisions they've made over the past 18 months, but no-one feels they can hive them honest feedback.
Organization flattening, getting rid of people managers, project managers, ostracizing the business side... it's all leading to a company that will not be able to operate because there's zero communication between teams, departments etc. which is going to lead to a drop in quality across the board.
When the customers leave en masse because we're pushing ASC products out, have poor quality support, poor quality applications, no call centers etc. then the only people to blame are Zulfi, Kamal and those above them.
Major health insurance companies have the Philippines and other countries reading American medical records and making decisions on approving care. We’ve been sold down the river as a country. It’s been going on for a long time and it will continue unless the laws change.
As if they are the only ones doing it.
Moving jobs offshore is short sighted and rarely bodes well for any company's long term viability. At some point the word "transformation" is going to carry a very different and negative connotation compared to how it's used today.