Sounds familiar? Starbucks did not lose $30 billion because of bad coffee. It lost it because the company mispriced what actually created its value. When Starbucks appointed a McKinsey-trained executive as CEO, the mandate was operational... — read more 

Looking back, it seems that fewer people were cut this year compared to recent ones. Yes, there were layoffs, but not as many as last and previous years. Curious if others are seeing the same thing.

Seems to me like they posted a bunch of engineer 3 and higher roles all for hyderabad/bangalore. Didn't we just lay off a bunch of those roles in August from Seattle? What a coincidence! Careers page (engineering):... — read more 

does it mean layoff? if someone gets a ‘below expected impact’ rating, does taking FMLA or PTO offer any temporary protection, or could HR still move forward with actions while the person is on leave?”

until such time that the primary corporate emphasis of financial revenue quantity has changed to product quality.

Be cautious of what you take from this forum -- there is a bias. People paranoid, with a negative mindset, or disgruntled are more likely to be on here -- that should be obvious. Additionally anyone can post on here -- and if a Chinese group went... — read more 

Fresh off the all-hands meeting, where leadership proudly told us everything is “record-breaking, absolutely historic, folks”, the company rolled out a restructuring plan so wild it should come with a safety label. They’re desperately trying to fix... — read more 

As f5 continues to sink we can turn this around. Go back to hiring people not on how they look but on what skills and vision they bring to the table. How John McAdam did it.

do you

So here’s the story, folks. This company, a very smart company, didn’t care about security for years. Total disaster. Then bo-m! They get hacked. Suddenly, they “find” all this money for cybersecurity, like it was hiding under the CEO’s golf clubs... — read more 

The mystery meeting is happening this Thursday! Nobody knows what it’s about, but the calendar invite came with no agenda and an unusually cheerful emoji from HR, never a good omen. Rumor has it the CEO will kick things off with some lighthearted... — read more 

Are they happening or not?

On October 15, 2025, CISA issued Emergency Directive ED 26-01 (https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/directives/ed-26-01-mitigate-vulnerabilities-f5-devices), marking an extraordinary federal response to the F5 breach. The directive's language is... — read more 

The actor dwell time inside their network is being quoted as 393 days. Let that sink in. Then consider this is being attributed to APT27 (China). I’m working from a position that they have everything (EVERYTHING) and are potentially still inside the... — read more 

Nothing else matters

F5 is poised for recovery as it doubles down on the technologies that power and protect today’s digital world. With businesses rapidly adopting hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, F5’s expertise in application delivery, security, and traffic... — read more 

Founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem, NVIDIA began as a graphics processing company focused on improving video game visuals. Its breakthrough came in 1999 with the launch of the GeForce 256, the world’s first GPU... — read more 

Taking requests now. Thank you so much. The Apple IIe (styled as Apple //e) is the third model in the Apple II series of personal computers produced by Apple Computer. It was released in January 1983 as the successor to the Apple II Plus. The e in... — read more 

The first hard drive was the IBM 350 Disk Storage Unit, introduced in 1956 as part of the IBM 305 RAMAC computer system. It could store 3.75 to 5 megabytes of data on 50 24-inch platters, weighed over a ton, and was roughly the size of two large... — read more 

A subdivision of my team specialises in F5 devices and we talked about this issue yesterday. Our Global Competency Lead for the technology believes that F5 is pretty much cooked and they don’t even have the mechanisms to trace all the configuration... — read more 

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Why: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, continues to investigate potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of F5, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV) resulting from allegations that F5 may have issued materially... — read more 

https://www.livescience.com/technology/communications/science-history-first-computer-to-computer-message-lays-the-foundation-for-the-internet-but-it-crashes-halfway-through-oct-29-1969 This is a time I wish I could have been a part of. It started... — read more 

$FFIV blames the recent breach for weak guidance, but the real story looks secular. Hyperscalers are commoditizing load balancing, and $NET / $AKAM are squeezing F5’s security edge. 1q rev growth turning negative, FY26 EPS down mid-singles. Stock -5%... — read more 

https://thenewstack.io/ken-thompson-recalls-unixs-rowdy-lock-picking-origins/ I had the honor of interviewing at Bell Labs in 1980. This type of environment will never happen again.

In every company that I have ever worked for, my focus has always been advocating for the customer, whether that be in new product development, maintenance of existing products, resolving issues that are encountered, or being available when the... — read more 

There’s talk of more layoffs coming, although the last round didn’t address the real issues and was just a quick fix to cover overspending. Cutting experienced employees with deep knowledge of the systems has created gaps that are hard to fill. The... — read more 

The only thing more consistent than their quarterly all hands metings is their biannual migration between Teams and Zoom. Every six months, executives, fresh off a “strategy retreat” involving buzzwords, golf carts, and a suspicious amount of... — read more 

FLD - You Have A Decision To Make By The End Of October 2025 Do you continue the financial charades to keep the stock price up for maybe another 6 to 8 months, or do you do what is necessary to make F5 a world class Security Firm. There are many... — read more 

Not sure what defines highly sophisticated hacker or not but clearly they went for the Jackpot Bingo. Application Delivery Controller or ADC is a single point of exposure of all traffic that goes through F5 that would be a magnet for hackers. It... — read more 

Attorneys Encourage Investors and Potential Witnesses to Contact Law Firm https://www.gurufocus.com/news/3147604/bank-first-corporation-receives-regulatory-approval-to-acquire-centre-1-bancorp-inc

Cyber: F5 experienced the same breach in March 2021. In Nov 2021 they announced they’re doubling their India staff which is now 20% of their headcount. The WFH engineering is entirely in India. Only pre-sales and service engineers in US. None of... — read more 

lets fire more american and european engineers and replace them with more indian engineers, middle managers and VPs they will rescue f5 from crumbling

so much for f5 being a security company https://www.securityweek.com/f5-blames-nation-state-hackers-for-theft-of-source-code-and-vulnerability-data/

I liked to say it was a good experience - it wasn't. I'd liked to say that we helped each other thrive - we didn't I'd like to say that F5 puts out new and innovative products - they don't I'd like to say that F5 puts out quality products - it... — read more 

I think it’s a copy of the 14.1 user manual and all of FLD’s crayon drawings