Hiring is on in Bangalore and there are 300+ people likely to get added this year. some of the teams are moving to Bangalore
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Confirmed. BLR is going to grow until the AI replaces that flavor of robot. Sabre Skynet coming 2026?
This same thought is on glass door we get it. Full steam ahead Bangalore. How much are you being paid...
Yeah that should be fun to deal with. Can't even understand them on the conference calls, and I'll bet that over half of them have lied on their resumes, they copy them from online examples or someone's linkedin profile. I've seen it. Thank God I'm hopefully on my way out of this dumpster fire. Sabre AMERICAN employees are still highly marketable/hireable, you just gotta put yourself out there. Delta may be interested, they are selling their airport solution now since the Virgin Atlantic cutover was a success.
Nice article @TjRQra9-3nis. You just made the list for someone that will never be C level at Sabre. You have to be in the "I went to any Ivy League school but have to clue good ol' boys club." Or you might show practicable promotion potential. You would also have to accept 100 rupees per year.
Lets be honest about all of this.
A. The C level views a coder = a coder. regardless of location. Therefore finding the cheapest option and crafting a strategy for that will always be the goal. Today its BLR, tomorrow it will be the philippines or china. (we already hear talk of the new low cost centers). - thats the exec view. i get it. its what is expected from that level, esp when that level is a non creative cost-cutting mindset. (you dont have to be that way to be successful.. (look at southwest). but you are what you are. so be it.
B. BLR is cheap. much much much cheaper than dfw. but blr is insanely unproductive, lazy, unresponsive in our clients needs and very much just an “order taker” rather than a solution labor pool. - make no mistake there’s a huge difference. There’s a reason no real life changing solutions come from blr.. they’re strength is their cost. and they are ok at execution towards a very well written script. anything outside of that will produce a very high failure rate, and they wont care if they fail either.. many other companies to hop on to if something happens..
C. DFW - Sad to say, but DFW’s best days are behind us at Sabre. DFW’s is a mangled mess now of insanely overpaid Sr.Director - C-level staff .. VP’s and SVP’s bringing in 400-600k and some with millions in stock ops. Why do we pay these guys so much ? They cant find jobs that make that much anywhere else and a lot of them dont even have experience in either our verticle or similar exp at a software company. (if you fired them, they would be unhireable elsewhere. Its absolutely ridiculas how much we spend at those levels. Most of those guys work 10hrs a week. MAX.. (i know)
We are also so overloaded with overhead from departments and groups that simply dont matter. MSM, Product Group’s (non dev). Procurement, heavy HR, Biz op’s, comm’s teams. (this is not a complete list) non of this crap is needed. yet we spend a vast amount of labor directed to these types of support services, which usually just get in the way of people actually doing their job of answering to the clients needs. The cuts of the last two years has reduced a lot of overhead, but the cuts arent well thought out and have encouraged the good talent to leave as well as the bad. Upper management (Sr director level up). is a huge problem in dfw. people saving their friends. etc. So in short.. Lots of crappy people remain and lots of really good people have been cut. Now there are very little good people left .. and lots of crap. It’s ugly all over the board in DFW. C-level in DFW wouldnt know how to close a deal with a prospective client even if the client begged us to take them. This is one of the worst sell strategies I’ve ever seen from a c-level team. This C level team isnt going to save Sabre they are going to put us in a death grip. They are 100 percent ok with just farming, and no real hunting. The only way out of a downward spin is too sell !! so quit talking crap and just go do it !
D. Finally, overal there are huge issues to address. but the biggest is Trust. The bottom, simply doesnt trust the top (or the middle for that matter). The C-level is not employee friendly and can’t seem to connect. We are all waiting for a new exec elevator to be put back in with a special exec entry...(no one would be surprised if that ever happened again). People got frustrated at the old leadership team, but people also worked hard for that team. I dont see that anymore, as the saying in office space goes “that will only make you work.. just hard enough not to get fired”. - thats the mantra of the lower level dfw worker today. and its the new culture the Sabre leadership team has inspired and thus created.
Three things will fix that. 1. Sale our damn products, 2. with Sales, re-invest in innovation (real innovation is more than just aligning release dates .. dummies. ). 3. re establish trust. that means you have to show a hell of a lot of love.
"...try and staff positions there..."
Are you kidding?? You obviously have not ever asked to hire or replace a head. If you had, you would realize we are FORCED to hire in BLR. No manager wants a direct report in BLR, we have no choice.
Have you seen the road traffic there? Unbelievable. Traffic, pollution, sewage, trash, poverty, corruption. It just amazes me that we are so greedy that we staff positions in such a backwards place just to try to save a few bucks. The quality suffers and it ends up costing us far more money when our reputation is destroyed.
This is such a great strategy move it must be the idea of the CIO. I can’t believe sabre was so lucky to snatch him up from his employer. In order for this to work flawlessly the CIO should relocate to be on site in Bangalore to lead. It really cannot be delegated to anyone else and go without hiccup.
A bon voyage in the a/b court yard is in order. We will miss him dearly in the US but willing to sacrifice for the company.
Is it true the entire PMO group is moving to Bangalore? The employee engagent at this place is BAD.
This is On My bucket list scre
How much to relo my family ! Sounds awesome
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@TjRQra9-1lve : I am loving it your sense of humour :)
I am considering relocating too.
What's the hourly rate there and is there a stipend to cover lung damage from the air pollution?
The city of burning lakes... so romantic... wait, they are lakes of raw sewage and refuse... burning anaerobic methane trapped under the floating weeds... with toxic foam and sludge...
Changed my mind. No thanks.
Are they paying relo?