#product

What will the layoffs look like in Nov? The recurring theme in Product seems to be on smaller teams.

Disney is reportedly implementing another round of layoffs this week, impacting HR, product, and tech departments. These cuts follow similar actions taken in April, July, and August, bringing the total number of workforce reductions to four within the current fiscal year. The company's fiscal year concludes at the end of September, a common time for such adjustments to be reflected in financial reporting. While Disney has not officially confirmed these layoffs, sources suggest the moves are part of a broader streamlining strategy. Notably, these reductions do not affect the company's parks and experiences division.

Burbank, California

https://www.disneyfanatic.com/three-disney-divisions-reportedly-named-in-new-round-of-layoffs-el1/

Anyone impacted in product quality engineering pqe?

Is Belden competitive in terms of future growth and R&D?

I'm seeing lots of "good roundtable", "great roadshow" type posts. Unfortunately that seems like a red-ish flag to me.

I guess business lines are doing ok? (Maybe One Talk is helping.) Not sure if the AI Connect stuff is real or not.

If VCG struggles, can they carry the load?

Am I reading this correct? Am I just stupid? We spent however much money developing Aviator so we can provide agentic AI to companies because we're like an AI company (allegedly) right?? So why are we now partnering with an AI company to bring secure data to governments and all of the sudden bringing only data to the table?? Wasn't the whole point being building AI agents that conform to whatever standards is needed so governments can use them? Now we're just the data source for the AI agent that can be changed at will.

Also, ok sure we have products that this makes sense for. But what about the rest of the products? What about Microfocus products? What data can we provide from for ex. ITOM to feed into agentic AI? A bunch of our products dont even fit the bill here. So where do they fit in the AI data future?

I retired fairly recently after working for CMCSA for 17 years all of which was in HQ. I am not disagreeing with comments about leaders not changing focus, product development issues or competing/over-lapping groups but what tech or product should CMCSA have "pivoted" (man I hate that word) to?

It was only a matter of time before video would die and the theme park experiment was just that. So where should they have invested in?

Ford n Ed's to go back to the drawing board and hire new engineers who has talents and innovation. The new Ford Fathem is just another Ford Maverick compact pickup truck the EV. No one will turn heads of they see this truck on the road.

Product teams had reorg and some managers have been moved to IC positions. What happened? Anyone?

I left F5 Networks due to its shift to share holder value over quality of products

OMG. What an ugly new electric truck. Who in he-l would want to buy it.

Whatever sh-t vendor product they are using to do their screen recording surveillance work, su-ks hard, my Windows laptop last few weeks, has had major pauses and sluggishness when using web forms (any page) , button clicks , or typing, it just pauses for 2-5 seconds, then continues.. WTF

Its pretty clear its a surveillance product as it periodically blanks out my screen , usually in the middle of something , and capturing my keystrokes.... I use these machines exclusively for work, i have my own phone for personal stuff., so I dont care if they want to pay me to wait around, but its stupid frustrating

Any from CSO know what surveillance cr-p theur using and is there anyway to optimize these machines to to be so innundated with cr-p vendor software

Is there honestly a market for these? The design is pretty rough. Why are our competitors lapping us on product aesthetics? I'm not even talking about IGT & Aristocrat... I'm talking about AGS, Bluberi and Zitro, smaller players.

Does anyone has any idea or any news regarding next round of WFR. When it will be and on which basis it will happen? Also, what is the future of ISG and it's product portfolio as based on current wave it doesn't seem there is any vision or strategy for product to release in next quarter.

New carts are just another way to push in more and more product!!

Does anyone actually believe that this is a good product that is competitive in market

They keep acting like it's going to save the company but all I continue to see is square cause merchants prefer it

How are we not bankrupt yet

Even if it takes off, it's only small businesses

There was a post on the r/IBM Reddit page this morning that has since been removed by the executive team's flying monkeys. The post discussed 17 products being sold by IBM to Persistent and didn't go into further detail as the person who posted it was worried about being outed. Has anyone else heard this rumor?

why isn't there a 20 minute AI summary? Isn't that what y-all are supposed to be donig now?

Congratulations to Nike Innovation, which has finally solved one of corporate America’s most stubborn problems: how to eliminate the inconvenience of experience, achievement, and institutional knowledge from promotion decisions.

For years, employees apparently misunderstood how advancement worked. They believed that spending 10, 15, or even more years building innovation capabilities, delivering difficult programs, transferring knowledge, and earning organizational credibility might prepare them for senior leadership.

Adorable.

When new leadership arrived from Running, the organization discovered a much more efficient talent strategy: bring trusted people along, place them above established innovators, and let everyone else reverse-engineer the qualifications afterward.

One particularly inspired decision involved elevating someone from development directly into a Principal Innovator position—above people who had spent years actually building the team’s innovation expertise. Employees naturally wondered what documented innovation record justified such an extraordinary appointment.

But asking for evidence misses the genius of the system. Why assess accomplishments when sponsorship is faster? Why develop internal talent when leadership already knows whom it likes? Why define the standards for becoming a Principal Innovator when ambiguity makes almost any decision possible?

“Principal” once suggested a sustained record of original thinking, organizational influence, and innovation leadership. Apparently, it can now mean being selected by the right people at the right moment.

Even better, leadership seems to have confused abrasiveness with authority. Territorial behavior becomes “ownership.” Undermining colleagues becomes “driving accountability.” Raising one’s voice becomes “passion.” Throwing coworkers under the bus becomes “executive presence.” When the favored employee behaves badly, the organization does not see a cultural problem—it discovers another leadership competency.

Meanwhile, longtime contributors receive the traditional Nike reward: a speech about embracing change, an invitation to keep delivering, and the privilege of watching someone else inherit the recognition.

This is not merely favoritism. Favoritism sounds accidental and embarrassingly unsophisticated. This was apparently a strategic operating model: concentrate opportunity around the incoming leadership network, protect the appointment from meaningful scrutiny, and wait for disappointed employees to leave so their departures can be described as transformation.

Nike constantly tells consumers that there is no finish line. Inside Innovation, however, there appears to be one—and leadership can move it whenever the wrong employee gets close.

The saddest part is not that deserving people were passed over. Corporate politics are hardly innovative. The saddest part is watching an organization built to challenge convention reproduce the most conventional failure imaginable: leaders rewarding familiarity over merit while congratulating themselves for being bold.

Nike Innovation does not lack talented innovators. It lacks leaders secure enough to recognize talent they did not personally bring into the room.

But perhaps we should applaud the experiment. It takes remarkable discipline to spend decades building an innovation culture and then dismantle its credibility in a single leadership transition.

Just don’t call it meritocracy.

That product failed testing.

The free tier's biggest feature, the malware and phishing blocking, is invisible. Customers never see it work. No alert, no moment, nothing to point to. What they can see is the paid tier, and that's one camera and one sensor for $15 a month, more than Ring charges for full professional monitoring on an unlimited system. It only runs on our gateway, so the customers most likely to leave us are excluded from the thing meant to keep them.And we're not a company people rate highly right now. Cable ISPs sit at the bottom of the satisfaction rankings, well behind fiber and 5G. Free doesn't fix that. It just adds something invisible to a bill people already think is too high.
I think it's a fine retention product. I don't think it's a new category, and I think we should be honest with ourselves about the difference.

This is so sweet! after Nike was acting like total a--hole for long time! in vicious and arrogant ways, now they are marching towards twenties.
And nobody in Nike has answer!!!
I previously, posted that I have seen first quarter 2027 products for my buyer and I am supremely confident that based on what I saw in the presentation, Nike will not turn around by March 2027. After that I haven't seen so I can't say.

My momma told me not to wish anything bad on other people but sorry mom. Because I am looking forward to Nike hitting 20s.
Hopefully that will happen before end of this year.
I wonder if EH will be still in Beaverton.

And once Nike gets kicked out of DJ30 for being sh---y stock and get replaced by some hot shot stock then that could contribute another $5.00 down on stock because all the DJ30 mutual funds can start dumping all together at same time.

I wonder what is the PK's face when he learns that he is getting poorer by 1 billion. LOL

Let my X mas wish come through

What have you guys released in the past year? Not trolling, just wanted to get the list of new major releases.

No need to respond if only maintenance releases or new hardware configurations. Looking for new major releases.

Names like “Factory” already feel dated, while continuing to rely on “Tera” only reinforces the perception that we’re putting an AI wrapper around legacy technology rather than delivering something genuinely new. Adding “Autonomous” doesn’t help either—it echoes messaging Oracle was using years ago.

So now it’s a double whammy: dated, derivative product names attached to products that still don’t convincingly deliver or work.

A lot of executives VP, SVPs are waiting for their stock to vest. They have no incentives to help the field people with any of the problems, either it is Score, Support, Product issues. We are selling because of relationship and not because of any capabilities.

A lot of these oldies are rusted and need to get kicked out starting with Jeff Clarke. He is a Plague.

Look what do we have in the Gartner MQ leader. Well yeah switching and wireless, but what else?

Not SASE, and his you want to drink some water and what pipe BS.

How long has he been in charge of product with no innovation leadership??

Just promoting himself sadly

Anyone have any insight into if Product will be required for RTO? Me and a few team members are remote and I’m wondering if I should be worried.

An email from CEO from an hour ago announced 2600 roles eliminated across company, mostly among Technology and Product teams, representing about 7% of all roles in the company

we can build products, but can execs manage the business?

New name . Same horrible neglected products. The once proud data protection division is a shell of what it was and is mostly made up of the hangers on being replaced with the ngsa graduates who don't know any better and just want to get out to the field to them half your pay is the dream job and a massive raise. Many of the leaders are protected . Bainenl should go sniffing around there lots of dead wood and useless dead weight that if you fired the Monday hardly anyone one notice. Sad but true.

If everyone gets laid off, who’s left to develop the product and fix bugs? It’s already tough. Also, AI tools like Claude don’t reliably do what you ask.

product team marketing team and multiple managers non need major impact nothing else.

Any word on Product & Technology Enablement in VBG ?

Why they keep making this limited edition sh-t that doesn't sell!?

Any layoff for onetalk product…

Over the years I created relationships with several folks (all key accounts). When I was laid off, I proceeded to tell them all how FIS instructed me to hide SLA misses and breaches at every available opportunity. I didn't tell them NOT to renew, I just told them to be sure they explored all available options.

But honestly I didn't have to do too much. The product was cr-p on a fancy plate.

I'm hoping that it hurt.

Seems to not be mentioned or advertised anymore.

What ID10T thought product name up? Glad I finally said it.

IBM is well know for creating things that don't work but look very good in the power point slides so let's build an inventory of such offerings here.

I would rank in this order

1. Puma
2. adidas
3. Nike

Now, this is for all practical purpose, a three horse race.

Nike's products were old, lackluster and uninspiring. Led by Nike's top endorsee Brazil which is not having best time in their illustrious history, the uniform just looked bad. Nike's idea of improvement? change the color of uniform from strong yellow to light canary. Wow!! Typical of Nike in last 5 or 6 years. Now don't get me started on team USA's hideous American flag garbage. Great job Nike.

adidas had Nike upgrade in many of their uniform that looked good. Specially bringing back their trefoil logo. It worked. Maybe short term but it worked in this WC. Team Mexico was great success!!

Puma won the race with nice but subtle upgrade of their offering and increase of teams wearing it. Also, I am sure that Puma did not give those teams monster contract like Nike did to Brazil, USA and Germany.

Anyone in this site that wants to buy the leftover Nike soccer jerseys from my soccer specialty store then please reply below and I will contact you.
As you know Nike doesn't care if cr-p sold or not. They want their ACH on time or they will suspend my account

Honest question: Why does Dell have software Engineering Leaders and 10s of thousands of software developers?

Every piece of enterprise software we develop either doesn't work, has to be recalled, or is already 10 years behind the competition when it releases. So why do we have these groups?