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Orchestrate cross-functional alignment, manage transformation frameworks, and maintain status/OKR reporting for executive leadership

New location in El Segundo, CA opened today and from what I understand the basic setup follows what they did in Atlanta and plan to do in Dallas.

The good:

• Compared to the increasingly dumpy and dreary space we left (the old DIRECTV hq), the building and facilities are a legit improvement
• Sit-stand desks are nice.

The bad:

• Layout could only have been designed by people who have their own offices. It''s open plan slop everyone hates. You can hear every conversation and teams call. The old space, while dumpy, had decent personal space and a modicum of privacy. Great environment for doing focused work. But there is pickleball!!!
• Of course, the geniuses continue with the no assigned seats policy. Yes, there are "neighborhoods" but they didn't have enough seats so people in some groups had to use overflow space. You can toss the collaboration BS out the window.
• Everyone got new chairs, which should be nice except that the seat backs are hard plastic, like you're sitting in the upper deck at a football game. They're going to need to swap the onsite shrink with a chiropractor. Back was ki-ling me by the end of the day. And these cheapo imitations of Herman Miller chairs will be the standard across the company. At least the VPs have the same chairs.

So basically, this isn't awful but coming here is still completely pointless. A fresh coat of paint and pickleball can't fix stupid.

Good leadership

Several people leaving the company including VP of S&T & mention that S&T will no longer exist. What will happen to those teams?

On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate our workplace culture in terms of toxicity?
(1 = not toxic at all, 10 = extremely toxic)

For those who’ve been around long enough to see BD at its best, do you think a change in leadership could bring those good days back? Does anyone think the incoming CXO can shake things up, cut unnecessary VP positions, save money, and get this organization functioning again?

This round of layoffs is only for managers, directors, and VPs, not ICs. Have you heard of any ICs getting laid off too?

The Executives continue to underperform and the middle managers get the bullet. They are firing the subject matter experts with legacy knowledge. Meanwhile, new VPs are brought in and are creating chaos. Where is this going? How is this company going to continue to function? Also, who is going to train the entry level staff? Someone needs to turn this around before it's too late. Can we take a vote on replacing Mark K?

Vp or director?

When somebody said this round will be just managers, directors, and VPs, I knew it sounded too good to be true. Not only was it not true, so far I haven't heard of a single manager or higher who were affected, at least in my area. And to think, this could have been a useful layoff.

Does anyone else specifically in corp maybe in the marketing realm sick of this phrase? I’ve heard it more in the past couple of weeks than I have in the past year, but it’s not the first time I’ve heard it and basically to me It’s permission for someone to be an absolute a--hole towards you, gaslight you, treat you like garbage, tell you your content is sh-t and then turn around and be told to just assume that they meant that feedback positively, it is the epitome of gaslighting and it just seems so fitting with this company adopted the expression so much that a VP shared something as a mandate and I’m talking about Tracy who introduced it I think to the world lol

Backend mainframe area. the area that ED was holding off for years. Few H1Bs under him. Says yes to all and work like they are still in British india. Hides all the truth and makes him happy. Comes out of the call the dash out to offshore and their directs. All this because they are visa slaves.

Now the new guy came in and its shaking the whole caucus. ED is loosing the grip . JO and his nepotism hires are not safe. PMO group stacked with all high grades and does barely minimum. Oh the guy became VP in no time just because of nepotism and can barely understand what he speaks out.

I worked as a senior director for centene for almost 9 years. There are several VPS that I would love to see handed their backside and would love to know if there is a list of VPs who have been let go, laid off, or left the company. There are several of them that I would love to see them on. The welfare line are absolutely broke. They deserve it.

With so many HR VPs enjoying high level salary and benefits how is it possible to have so many fake resume based employees on H1B. VPs must get to office and do their job.. Many VPs work from home many days..

Like a dr-g test, Please run the resume through Lexis-Nexis based in Alpharetta right down the street from Fiserv. They are a national risk solutions provider.

You will find a ton of surprises.. Resume is a mutually trusted document.. if anyone lies on it, fire immediately and report to USCIS.

Employment History: Confirming your previous job titles, exact dates of employment, and reasons for leaving by cross-referencing company payroll databases or directly contacting HR departments.
( check with IRS for payroll tax history, you will be shocked to know what kind of employment 'history' these folks have )

Education & Qualifications: Verifying degrees, graduation years, certifications, and diplomas directly with universities and credentialing bodies.
( a ton of folks have fake degrees from Karnataka or printed in a random press )

Professional Licenses: Ensuring that any claimed legal, medical, or technical licenses are active, valid, and free of disciplinary sanctions. ( I am not even getting into this topic )

Heads up. The big layoff is hitting Sept 8th. >10,000. Source a gossip from leaving VP told a m6 who told m4 I report to..

...can confirm layoffs happening in OCI. VPs and IC5s among the losses. No idea how many. Came via sudden meeting invite on Tues mid-morning pacific time

They have to cut at the bottom to keep creating new senior roles. Developers in my group get RIFd and more bloat gets added

'FIS is looking for a VP, Head of Program Management & Strategic Initiatives to join our Technology organization at FIS in Jacksonville, FL'.

'At FIS, we're looking for a VP of Technology Partnerships & Vendor Management'

Wow – Just saw a posting they are hiring yet another VP for the Shopify migration….Shopify is such a mess we had to roll back – how is yet another overpaid VP going to fix it….

Make this make sense please!

So help me understand, they got rid of bpSolutions and instead have instead made a big central organisation under Upstream HSE & Ops. One VP pre reorg to 6VPs post re-org. Surely the cottage industry has just shifted to satisfy some power hungry and egoistical characters. What is the point and what a disaster!

They are next. Most of them couldn't get a middle manager job outside of this company.

The recent post on Culture saw a few positive references to Pat Daniels - reminders of what a great leader he is though sadly someone many current employees would not have experienced.

We are a big company now so it’s great to share with colleagues who the current great leaders are.

Let’s keep this positive shall we? Enbridge HR will have the thread removed if there negative mention of certain VPs.

I was in a meeting. The VP confirmed that it will happen by the end of August. No more details.

Seriously, how many VPs does one company need?

At Omnicell, the org chart sometimes feels less like a lean healthcare technology company and more like a VP convention with an occasional product roadmap thrown in.

You have to wonder:

👉 What does everyone actually do all day?
👉 How many “strategic alignment” meetings or “workshops” can one organization possibly have?
👉 And how many VPs does it take to schedule another meeting with the other VPs?

Then there are titles that make you stop and wonder whether the role exists because the company genuinely needs it—or because somebody needed another box on the organizational chart.

And yes… VP of Internal Communications.

That one might actually be justified. Someone has to spend all day figuring out how to turn:

“We’re eliminating your position”

into

“We’re strategically realigning our workforce to unlock future opportunities.” 😂

Maybe the real innovation at Omnicell isn’t automation.

It’s automating the creation of executive titles.

How many VPs are too many?

Asking for the shareholders. 👀

Then it's only because you couldn't ever get a similar type of role at another company, right? I'm genuinely trying to think if there is any other reason. Seems like if you were able you would be long gone by now...

Been noticing some VP roles posted as "remote". That seems odd. Like are they just posting it as remote and then giving it to someone who is already here that wants to be remote.

Started earlier this morning but VP, AVP, Sir Dir movement in Workday underway now.

I don't expect Associate Directors and Local Managers to be fully moved until later week(s) but we'll see.

Next round will be layoffs focused on VPs of all levels and Directors of all levels. Any director with a small number of direct reports to be fired.

We will all know by August 12-14. It was said by a VP.

Job title downgrades coming for VPs of all levels and Directors of all levels. The company needs to save money and this is the logical way.

I've heard more surplus is coming in September, and I am hoping I'm on that list! I asked to be on the July surplus and was told my department wasn't impacted so I could not be included. Any chance I will be on it in September? Specifically looking for impacted VP/SVP teams under Legg.

Can someone help me. I applied to VP at Mastercard in Purchase NY. It's Marketing. The range listed on job description is $213,000 - $351,000 USD. I am assuming this is total compensation? What's the base for VP? Bonus I am told 32%.

Is there a requirement for VP's to be sociopaths? They seem to be required to lack empathy or remorse and engage in manipulative behavior to achieve that level.

It is truly disturbing to watch them in action.

I think the annual RIFs are some kind of sick psychopathic game they love to play on us to keep people in line. It must give them pleasure to destroy people's lives year after year for no reason other than to advance their own career.

So AC is leaving. And VA consolidating power under him and empire building by adding VPs under him.
Honestly though what were ACs accomplishments? Heck what were his R&Rs? I never really understood what he did.

I hope I’m a part of this layoff. When you have people like me who have been around for 14 years wishing that they will be Riffed it should paint a picture of how toxic this place is. Let this 12 year old VP enjoy her toxicity and all her a.. kissing useless sr directors.

Since Medtronic loves saving money I have an idea. Fire the useless Sr VPs and VPs and find replacements in Colombia. I am sure that will work our great. It would save millions upon millions of dollars.

Tara should go first.

Here is how ridiculous Verizon Value is. Tanya and her cronies spent the last 2 years undoing everything that made TracFone a success. Once she was bounced out the powers that be now are reverting back to how everything was at Trac. Millions of dollars wasted and time and energy, I am so over this place. Please let me go now.

We're increasingly relying on very junior resources who often arrive with a great deal of confidence but very little context. Many are obsessed with visibility and impressing VPs and Directors, spending more energy crafting narratives and projecting competence than actually doing the work required to build it. Everyone seems eager to have an opinion on everything, despite being fresh out of school and lacking the historical context or operational understanding behind why certain decisions were made. Questioning assumptions is healthy; dismissing experience before understanding is not. Leadership often mistakes polished communication, executive presence, and confidence for capability. Those who manage perceptions rise quickly, while other carry the load. To make matters worse, some are very well connected, merit isn't always what drives opportunity. just look ate the recent hires.

Has anyone else dealt with environments where visibility is valued more than substance? Performance Vs perception he-l.