20+ LMG , KMG were called for a meeting sometime last week and asked to search for job /leave since they see excess capacity. The Re org will is being worked upon and announced soon. They were offered severance package subject to some terms and conditions.
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The ECs at one point were actually told they were not to touch any of the coding. One of so many bad managerial directives.
Anonymous93909, spelling guru? How about getting your spelling right for Russia.
All of the GOOD technical people in Minneapolis would not waste their time going to Target. They have a horrible reputation in the tech community, they don't pay what the market does AND if you are a contractor they treat you like crap. Target has to go outside this market to get talent as the Minneapolis market has better opportunities to pick from
There you go Anonymous93650, you can't even spell Minneapolis. You can always go and do contract work for businesses in Rusia, China or Slovenia. Good luck!
Minnepolis people sucks
All that Minneapolis Managers did was to rely on contractors like TCS/Wipro (who have 80% from INDIA) and took some kick backs/favors. They never worked and all were fixed bids which screwed Target money to Vendors. EC there in Mpls have become so dumb technically and were only talking technically (air talks) but ask them to code / demo some things they will sweat !. Target India is not the issue but the excessive management layer to do the same job is causing the issue. This is created post arrival of Beth / COE model . All was fine before 2008 in Target India and these unnecessary LMG/KMG/Directors caused excess layers ,Reduction in work to TI by having fixed bids,people got Lazy (both locations).
A fully onshore or offshore model is probably not realistic at this point for Target. Locally there is a limited resource pool and they have a bad rep. Globally the resources are prevelent and cost is low but so is quality of working in an onshore offshore model with a time difference.
They should have begun the massive restructuring with Target India. It is an excessive amount of people for the value provided. In the past 5 years the quality of the communication (even fundamental English grammar skillset) has declined significantly. This impacted efficiency and you needed 3 people to build something and convey the value to Minneapolis. Back and forth multiply it by X amount of projects. The solution is to bring the entire Enterprise IT shop to the US and stop relying on India. Good luck with that.