It seems that who you are actually matters as so far of the 10 people I know who were laid off, 100% were 30s-50s, white males.
A small sample I know but wow, if that was the criteria used, good luck to all for the future.
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Netapp’s CEO is commited to supporting people and groups that deliver results. Its most likely that layoff decisions were made by looking at numbers not skin or age.
Meanwhile, the Instaclustr / CloudOps leadership team is going to Maui this month for an offsite and to celebrate the sale of Spot and layoff of really great people.
Netapp has been leaning very far on that direction. White male are targeted at netapp to be replaced by DEI.
There's been a hiring freeze in the US basically all year for technical staff. Didn't you know? NetApp is moving towards eastern excellence.
Can someone from NetApp confirm if there is a hiring freeze? I was in a loop, the last round is pending and the recruiter has been on radio silence for a week+. Wondering if the role os eliminated.
BTW how big was the layoff?
As an employee I sat in a room during a meeting with a senior NetApp executive who put up a picture of a group of bald headed white men and said "This is not what we want the company to look like"
Those of you who argue that this behavior is not institutionalized are at best ignorant.
IMO (someone who has been laid off) These are compensation adjustments and a movement to bring in more diversity. Its reasonable up until, of course, they give high skill jobs to low skill workers and ask remaining high skilled employees to work their jobs harder, "mentor" (sometimes take over) problems that occur w/ inexperienced employees, and then hold them accountable.
Who is Jeff Baxter? Greatest NetApp employee ever?
I had to LOL at the Jeff Baxter as a "outsourced leader" comment. As close to the opposite as you could get. Long time individual contributor in a customer facing role who worked his way up over many, many years.
I know 4 people that got laid off that were all black so your findings are wrong lol
Who is Jeff Baxter? Another outsourced leader with a high salary and high RSUs?
But somehow Jeff Baxter still has a job.
Salary reductions aren't a good enough reason of why these folks are getting let go. Even adjusting for inflation, new hires start out with better total take home than I did when I started at the company 10+ years ago.
These layoffs have little to do with race and everything to do with economics. Mostly that NetApp is becoming an India-centric company. There have been rumors for a long-while about NetApp proactively backfilling engineering and support positions to India before layoffs in the west. Interestingly enough, I don't see any of the C-suite moving away from high cost of living areas.
NetApp has continued to outsource their higher-level management roles like directors and VPs. These individuals come into a company, get their stock options and salary set for the next ~5 years, destroy their orgs and products by off-shoring jobs, then cash out before the stock dips. Seems to me these shiftless nobodies want to maximize the return of their stock options in the next 4-7 years by off-shoring jobs before they end their tenure and cash out.
Nothing to do with race.
It doesn’t help that the people being laid off are critical and posses knowledge you can’t train overnight. DEI will end up costing this company a lot in the long run.
If you go back to all the layoffs that have happened,, you can pinpoint the demographic of people that get laid off. Older, males, white, who make too much money or have been here too long. I’m sure there’s grounds for a good case against NetApp for this, but you can’t help but notice that a large portion of those affected meet that demographic. Corporations are not your friend and do not care about your loyalty.
Probably more of a salary reduction, going after those who have higher salaries to bring in, at a later time, those with lower salaries. However, you risk losing all of that knowledge!
30's through 50's is 90% of the company. I was reduced and do not meet the race criteria.
I do know of one female, Director level that was let go too. She was a white female in her 50's though.
That's diversity for you. There are two ways to get to a diverse organization. Hire diverse candidates or fire the traditional producers.
Ok, thanks for the counterpoint as I didn’t want to believe that it was so targeted.
Not that it matters but I know someone that got laid off that doesn’t fit this criteria at all.