"Outgoing Citrix Systems CEO Kirill Tatarinov will collect nearly $32 million in severance pay and benefits following his “mutual separation decision" with Citrix’s board. The change at the top was announced Monday."
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/fl-bz-citrix-ceo-severance-20170711-story.html
1) What value did Kirill add during his 17 months at Citrix -- what were his greatest accomplishments?
2) How many engineers could you hire or retain with $32MM?
Layoffs are coming again in October. Confirmed by numerous inside the company. Also, just announced internally last week, leaders in their World Wide Sales and Americas sales are "retiring".
Everyone's buzzing about layoffs coming in October - are there any truths to those rumors?
Worth every penny
They're probably already laying people off or firing them in order to fund his separation.
And this is the dude heading the layoff committee, who also made the same "overpaid" list during his tenure at Ariba:
http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2017/02/14/south-florida-ceo-makes-most-overpaid-list.html