These RIF's will continue and I suspect one of the reason that they do not quell rumors of future layoffs is that they want folks to leave voluntarily. There is no hope for Q as it is facing the classic Peter Principle at EVERY SINGLE LEVEL. Many people from engineering, whether it is Sys, CE or MST or ESG quit their engineering roles where they were good at and moved to corporate marketing or PdM or PgM. The result is that you LOST a great engineer and CREATED a novice or even worse, a clueless Director of Marketing. Meanwhile the good old (and capable) hands moved on. You can find many examples if you just PH these departments.
Tragedy is that these newly minted Marketing Dir's, SrDir's, or PdM's are not getting impacted. They are continuing their mediocrity (even harm). Hypothetically, if these folks were that good as they claim, then why did Q lose sockets left and right since the past 10 years? Why does any new initiative for parallel revenue stream in Q FAIL? (Automotive is a different beast and I will start a separate thread on it) You will hear a lot of excuses from these doddering f--ls groping in the dark, but the buck has to stop somewhere. I know folks from my own team in CE (and MST) whose workload we had to pick up because they had to attend Rady or Anderson or Haas, got their management degrees and Peter Principled into Marketing or PdM.
Advise to the younguns is to keep acquiring skillsets on the side and find better pastures. Move to BA. SD is where the old farts from BA are taking transfers, take it easy and retire. So, it is creating a lot more opportunities in BA.