Major layoffs before merge with MicroFocus are continuing and they are saying they laid you off because of your work is no longer needed, then why are the VP Management teams over in Costa Rica doing a major hiring spree for replacing your job in the USA. I already trained many Costa Rica personal in the job I was doing. They also stopped hiring internally because MicroFocus HPE Software says no, but O.K. to hire replacements in COSTA RICA. Then why do people have to turnover their job tasks to the people who are left and train the Costa Rica team on your SME features after you were notified you are laid off when you are told being laid off has nothing to do with performance, but the paper work you get "waiver" says you are let go because the others are more skilled than you are. :-(
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What are your thoughts on the survivability of ArcSight once it goes to MicroFocus? MF seems to be a graveyard for software. Are you glad you got out of ArcSight before the shift to MF?
I used to work for HPE ArcSight and yes they did hire more and more CR people.
My local team used to have 4 members and now, NONE.
I'm lucky enough to find another opportunity right before they laid off the last member in my team. :)
What regions are experiencing these pre-Micro Focus layoffs?
US, Canada, EMEA, APAC?
The acronym that is killing the IT employees in the Western World is EPS. Whilst the shareholders have a hold of the public listed companies by their "minerals" (through pathetic CEO's that gave no regards for the mid/long term health-let alone employees), we are all heading to the welfare... maybe governments have to make a stand point how far globalization can be let loose
OmCRssQ-1smr, I think the "trends" you described has been happening in the last decade or so (since the mid 2000's).
Agreed there are talents all over the globe. The talents in the low cost labour region also recognized they are being exploited.
They learned to operate in a passive/aggressive MO. How? They would be as nice/polite as you could possibly expect from "angels", they would intentionally building an imbedded dependency (any). For example, no documentation no traceability. Tasks/assignments take longer than it should. Out of sight out of mind. No checks/balances. Who allowed this? Leadership. Again, penny smart and pound (dollar) foolish. Clear case of disfunctional leadership.
Chasing after cheap Labor will continue with all American companies. Corporate greed and the desire to to constantly fill the bank accounts of shareholders is the very driving force for this. America is addicted to this easy money and companies will not stop the practice as long as there are is cheaper labor in any part of the planet. Those of us in the US workforce must adapt to this new reality and find our own survival mechanisms, such as learning new trades that cannot be easily transferred overseas. It is becoming more and and more a dog eat dog world.
The Costa Rica engineers are paid a lot less for the same work that we do in the US , and I must say they are very smart and dedicated engineers. I have worked with many of them.
Are we supposed to be surprised?