Good luck to everyone this week. To all those who get a GTFO package, you will find another gig and will likely decide that this turned out to be a good thing. For those that don't, good luck, but you might wind up wishing you had gotten a package and moved on. I don't really blame S15 years) did I ever have someone ask me for candid feedback on how people felt about the work environment. Maybe they already knew, so it wouldn't have helped. But I think they just hid behind those surveys and said to themselves "well, I cant talk to every one, so this is the best that I can do" to which I say, BS, You have to get out there and beat the street. QC went from a company that could do, to one that became so risk adverse/ bureaucratic /corporate that they just squashed the kind of environment that Irwin and the founders created. Maybe its just an inevitable part of the lifecycle of a company. But I don't really believe that.
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@152714, what management could have done better is to have seen what was obviously coming, and started pivoting the company a few years ago. But the money was rolling in at the time, and they got too comfortable.
so sad so true
At the end of the day, mobile his becoming a commodity and Q cannot win at that game in the long run: not sure if any other management would have done better; with one trick pony the writing is inevitably on the wall. Just my humble opinion.
OP do you only speak in cliques ? lol
Management was not only out of touch with the rank & file, they were totally out of touch with technology. In a high tech firm, that's as good as the kiss of death.
Good luck to everyone this week. To all those who get a GTFO package, you will find another gig and will likely decide that this turned out to be a good thing. For those that don't, good luck, but you might wind up wishing you had gotten a package and moved on. I don't really blame SM as the problems in QC started before his term. But I do blame a management structure that allowed the QCT slave shop environment to fester, not cutting people gradually before this so there wasn't this step function at this time, and not being successful in creating other business areas to help diversify the company. I believe management was utterly out of touch with the rank and file engineers. Not once (and I worked there >15 years) did I ever have someone ask me for candid feedback on how people felt about the work environment. Maybe they already knew, so it wouldn't have helped. But I think they just hid behind those surveys and said to themselves "well, I cant talk to every one, so this is the best that I can do" to which I say, BS, You have to get out there and beat the street. QC went from a company that could do, to one that became so risk adverse/ bureaucratic /corporate that they just squashed the kind of environment that Irwin and the founders created. Maybe its just an inevitable part of the lifecycle of a company. But I don't really believe that.