No one really affected in the product teams.

Anyone have a breakdown of the number of #H1B included in yesterday's layoff at the various US campuses?

Maybe next time.

The original Elliot plan was to have two additional layoff rounds after January as part of its Multi-year business model transformation strategy. This was predicated on a stable market through 2016. With the china market collapse and price drop of... — read more 

has the layoff stopped ? or is it still going on ?? keeping my fingers crossed.. i am extremely nervous about this

It is said ByteMible@beijing is completly cut off

Do other companies do this? I was cut today over the phone, it's so xxxxxxxx

It's sad - I am not sure why they waited so long, I thought I was safe, but I was wrong. I have had a short tenure here so no hard feelings.

Congratulations let the party begin !!!

Mysterious meeting invite 10 minutes before meeting time with my boss' boss who never spoke to me in 1.5 years until today. Apparently its the big layoff today. Good luck.

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9am meeting, no mincing of words, our entire team is laid off (25 people or so, then off to another layoff meeting while the HR person took over. Concentration on the core business that is remote acccess to apps and desktops that are being replaced... — read more 

After the Sales Readines and Education teams in October, Order Management at the Schaffhausen office is being wiped out today.

Myself and my team received a calendar invite to a 9AM on site required meeting. Sounds like we're getting chopped.

Who in their right mind thinks that employees would do anything above and beyond when all they do is worry about being unemployed? Everyone will stay under the radar, and we have already lost all our superstars. The culture is dead. Why would anyone... — read more 

If the announcements come tomorrow post here to keep everyone up to date with the regions and teams affected. India, China and Australia will probably know first

Get ready citrites, not long before the next round of layoffs in January . Just one last monkey show at synergy before your usefulness is over and 1000 people will be given pink slips. Remember BobC declared "no one is safe" at the last all employee... — read more 

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/12/30/obamas-agency-reveals-plan-give-work-permits-myriad-foreign-college-graduates/ #h1b #opt

Now get on your knees and beg for your jobs..there will be no handouts here at Christmas time.

PMs and architects. Ali shahidershit still lives on.

Who will be going, can't stand waitin.

While Citrix was late to the outsourcing game (thanks to strong engineering leadership that resisted it for so long until the H-1Bs staged a coup in Fort Lauderdale and threw them out), the rest of the industry has realized outsourcing is a failure... — read more 

It's pretty much empty and the few remained. Guys can't believe what's happening, the only good point is that they own the buildings, will it be enough?

Interesting instructions about text formatting @EITBv7r - Check this out #formatting https://www.thelayoff.com/h/formatting

They added a new button, now we can see topics that had recent replies, it's located below that big blue button - here is the url: https://www.thelayoff.com/citrix-systems/active

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/fl-citrix-elliott-stake-20151127-story.html gotta love the diversity in the story image: http://www.trbimg.com/img-56589ff0/turbine/fl-citrix-elliott-stake-20151127

Ok, even though the dust hasn't settled, it is a good time to ask the question to the thread prowlers. What are Citrix Core competencies? Nothing can stop you from posting some inane shit or smart remark, but if the majority of you, the rank and... — read more 

500 is a lot, where were they all from? It would seem only a handful of people here and there, which areas were hit the most as it's difficult to figure out the loss of 500, seems more like 100.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/fl-citrix-lays-off-50-fort-lauderdale-20151119-story.html

who would attempt to outsmart each other in trying to show numbers. One is Dave H, you know who the other is. I suspect we are going to be run like a services company with focus on operations if the interim CEO becomes the CEO. Vision? Forget it... — read more 

Whats the impact? Which all teams? Mr. Kart* Vasu* saved again?

Charlie Sheen refs, hedging questions, and the word focus... a lot. Then the same info as usual. Citrix is a superstar that's just a little off track. Got it. For the bimbos in the audience, they loved it. Anyone who has a brain watched the most... — read more 

Doubt anyone is really checking this thing now, besides trolls, but was just curious.

Yep, the GEM was boring as hell, having to listed our life history of the new CEO,...

500 laid off yesterday mainly to do with the products that are no longer core. I know of one manager in services enablement that got chopped. Another 500 to get cut in Jan 2016.

https://www.thelayoff.com/vmware