I love working at Citrix. I'm pretty sure most of the employees (past/present) do too. Having worked for several large corporations, I've never seen so many freaked out - stressed out - on the edge group of people. This is not just limited to the "daily contributors" but managers and leaders as well. This is not healthy or good for the health. Many employees have jumped ship and lots more are planning to evacuate. It will be difficult for Citrix to hire and retain high performing people. The word on the street is that the company is unstable and only cares about profits first. There will be layoffs starting next week. However, there will continue to be an exodus of great people because of the constant instability and lack of employee confidence in building a future at Citrix.
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"there will continue to be an exodus of great people because of the constant instability and lack of employee confidence in building a future at Citrix" - True, and while "Management is probably OK with that" anyone who works for Citrix knows that the company can't run without people who care enough to sacrifice to get the job done. The love and passion was there in the past when the company was good to employees and their families. However, its not the same company anymore so the mass exodus of talent will mean the downfall. Look, the 2015 layoffs started the mass exodus and half of us hung around hoping for the best. Meanwhile, I see "new talent" come and go like a revolving door where in the past talent stayed for at least a couple years. 6 months is considered a long time now. Have fun milking the last pennies of the company you are killing E. Group! Anyone left after this round of layoffs won't stay long. There is no longer a future working for Citrix. Our beloved "Citrix Culture" is over.
The days of loving Citrix are long over
@pwy well said. The mental anguish and anxiety is mind numbing and deafeningly loud. The best thing is to Accept the inevitable and make plans to move on.
It is like leaving family but the company divorced from the employees a long time age. The employees were hoping for reconciliation which will never happen.
You might want to spend some time reading "Latest Posts" where you'll see this is the case at MANY companies since 2017.
The one other thing they all have in common is employees who think they're the only company it's happening at.
Wrong.
Things are changing, everywhere.
"there will continue to be an exodus of great people because of the constant instability and lack of employee confidence in building a future at Citrix"
Management is probably OK with that -- reduces costs and improves retained earnings. I don't think there is a large amount of interest in long-term company health and product development, presently, at the board/c-suite level (other than moving product offerings into the cloud).