#engineering

If I was a young engineer I would steer into power engineering. We will always need power.

Now that India appears to be aligning with China and North Korea- how long can Ford continue to offshore massive amounts of Engineering, Manufacturing, and Tech work there?

Half of Ford’s global enterprise tech team operates from India.

How can Ford remain committed to India as a centre of excellence?

Synaptics saw a 29.4% revenue decline in fiscal year 2024 compared to 2023, likely prompting layoffs that hurt employee morale. Meanwhile, execs continue to sell RSU stock, funded by stock buybacks, potentially eroding trust further. This raises questions about how many engineering jobs were cut to support these insider stock trades.

I was hired as a fully remote engineer 2 years ago.

There is no campus nearby.

There's been rumors that fully remote will be the next to go.

I need the money.

Anyone have any insights of what's coming down the line for fully remote engineers.

There seems to be lots of layoffs in Fusion development, solution engineering, HCM, CX. Does anyone know of ERP ISEs affected at the IC level?

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timothy-mcminn_processengineers-productstechnolgists-ugcPost-7367738288624828419-f9Kp?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=android_app&rcm=ACoAACDcTUIB78s2Y--p4ekS4nMiEsSVXFqwsNA&utm_campaign=copy_link

I have heard a rumor that the Research/Engineering EMTECH Organization Charges $400+ USD per hour to an Affiliate for EMTECH Services in 2025. Is this True?

Pre-2020, the cost of an SME in EMRE (now EMTECH) was only $230 per hour and the cost of a Junior Engineer was $180 per hour.

Why is EMTECH so expensive in 2025?

(1) Hard Work Isn't Enough
Results need to be seen. Advocate for yourself - quite efforts get ignored.

(2) Loyalty Won't Pay The Bills
Companies are loyal to profits, not people. Look out for yourself first.

(3) Your Job Title Is Temporary
Focus on building skills, not clinging to labels. Titles do not define your value.

(4) Your boss isn't always right
Leaders make mistakes too. Challenge respectfully when it matters.

(5) Networking is Non-Negotiable
Your skills are important, but connections will open the doors.

(6) Burnout is not a Badger of Honor
Work smarter, not harder. Protect your energy - it's your greatest resource.

(7) Comfort Zones Ki-l Growth
If you are not uncomfortable, you are not growing.

(8) Feedback is a Gift
Even the harshest feedback can teach you something valuable. Seek it out.

(9) You Are Always Replaceable
Focus on making an impact, not being irreplaceable. IMpact builds a legacy.

(10) Perfection Slows You Down
Aim for progress, not perfection. Done is better than Perfect.

(11) Career Progress Is Not Linear
Side steps, failures, and pivots often lead to the biggest wins.

(12) No One Will Hand You Success
Take ownership. Push for opportunities. No one is going to care more about your career than you.

Author's Footnote - The 12 Truths listed below are not just for engineering but apply to all jobs. In addition, I would add the following advice. Be honest, respectful, humble, and guard your reputation and integrity to establish yourself as someone who can be trusted and has credibility.

Outsourcing (especially to india) should be carefully deployed in the most low-impact areas of buisness. They shouldnt be taking credit card calls and they definitely shouldnt be involved in engineering.

The only benefactor from this is todays bonus benefitiarys who dip their wallet in the bucket just long enough to miss out on the long term implications.

The most obvious problem is the hopeless disconnect between vital functions at home and abroad. A lot of this circles back to the WFH debate, if half my subordinates are in india, what difference does it make? The only correspondance im receiving takes place after im off, so one response per inquiry per day is the cadance we live by in this lifeless/dry exchange.

Longer term? Systems evolve, grow more complex. Growing pains become amplified becouse yesterdays multinational staff configuration has to be rethought across several teams spanning half the world apart - less flexibility, less room for large scale collaboritive thinking. Again, they wont get todays news until im tucking my kids to bed tonight.

Its an entirely avoidable blight on the company, and the savings at scale are a tiny blip compared to other areas of potential cost cutting, but is such an easy sell/decision for upper management. Whomever leads the way on outsourcing has a relatively secure seat as an SME and high degree of leverage at the bonus table. 2 demensional shareholders will cheer almost anything promising to bring more profits next year.

Make no mistake, this is not benefitial for the long term outlook for the company as a whole.

This is sad, I reported many bugs (Jira’s) 3+ years ago when I worked as Ford as an Engineer. Then I was laid off (Paid to much?)

Wish Ford best of luck, but change is needed. Job market is bad,

I just saw this recall tonight on the news. I reported this with the Lightening 150 as the Cluster would just go dark multiple times when checking out the mule. Submitted logs and informed management. The bug left our group to who knows where. Obviously it was not followed up on.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ford-recall-more-than-355000-trucks-over-instrument-panel-issue-nhtsa-says-2025-08-27/

Why do Clover Engineers in Sunnyvale get $350k a year?

Some very senior managers laid off and are now looking for work as "engineers." Damn, those id--ts don't know the first thing about engineering. They've been milking the system for years. Best of luck finding a job, I suggest applying at McDonald's. Actually, lets not insult MacDonald's.

There was a layoff in the Dallas office today. Not sure how many were affected or if more offices outside of Dallas were affected. Anyone hear anything else on this?

working overtime was a problem before private equity takeover.
But now it is a bigger problem. Without QEs, developer has to do job of two people in same timeframe while maintaining "high quality". This is a death knell because escalated issue, due to management incompetence, has to be fixed by overworked developers :-(

Heard in a meeting today GM is looking to reduce costs more. From what was discussed, it looks like they are going to start trimming near the top of the tree.

I guess the so called bottom 15% wasn’t enough.

They will probably just blame it on the excessive Tariff costs.

https://youtu.be/guAxFDafF1o?si=0C_1N4m8gKbPJgrm

Now that it's January anyone have any updates on layoffs in the software engineering org in El Segundo?