Thread regarding Symantec Corp. layoffs

Your experience will vary based on your department!

With any large company, your experience can really vary based on your department. They do have frequent layoffs. (Jun 2013, Jan 2015, Jun 2016 for larger ones and several smaller ones in between those dates).

MSS (a.k.a MeSS) is a disaster, stay away unless you like working in chaos with clueless management that refuses to do anything to change that. They can't deliver anything.

There is also a negative culture in that group that thinks you get more by putting people down. Cambridge- you need to like working with open desks, no cubes. One manager, Mike B, thrives on berating developers. (he is a bully)

Yes, they are moving to the "unlimited days off" where your manager has to approve any time off, and Mike actually said that if you are sick you need a doctors note and need to tell your entire scrum team exactly why you were out. How is that even legal?

Your health is none of anyone else's business. Two years ago several people complained to HR about him and surprise, surprise, they were let go in the Jan 2015 layoff.

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It's not legal you are protected under hippa laws you never have to disclose a medical condition to an IT dept. Sounds like a huge liability and not a manager at all having no skills. Too bad Symantec used to be such a good company.

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Post ID: @assc+HrWs4iF

I feel where you are coming from I work for the Ghost/PC Anywhere team years ago and my supervisor Ron S. wanted to share my medical issues with my team and did. Then when confronted about it he threatened my employment and accused me of sleeping with a co-worker. Peter Greenwood then came into the mix after an HR issue because I was being harassed of a sexual nature by my boss. Symantec released me from my employment only to offer me my job back months later at 1/4 wage of what I was making. This happened at the OR site and really the company is gross and full of creeps. To this day I have never had a good experience with them or their employees.

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Post ID: @1rjm+HrWs4iF

While I am no longer a Symantec employee, with Veritas Technologies now, my experience with Symantec has been very collaborative and positive. As an employee, my skills were apprrciated and now as a contractor serving Symantec as a customer, I work with a talented and collaborative team. This surprises me.

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