KKR chose Amit Singh to lead the next round of layoffs. Which departments will experience the greatest headcount reduction, now "Shankar the Protector" is gone?
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@1d1 A good 1/3 of the marketing team is project managers who don't actually do any work, just assign it to others or get budget to get agencies to do it. They keep adding project managers because they are all so inefficient at the work they do that they need 5 of them to do what should normally take one competent employee.
why do we need a finance department with AI and excel..... subtract customer xyz is pretty easy
I agree, the reality is most sales reps are just taking orders from the few remaining customers who haven't moved to Microsoft and the other credible alternative vendors. I predict that KKR will realize that we need far fewer people in sales and marketing roles. The reduced renewal order pipeline doesn't justify the headcount expense, just the finance folks to report and account for our declining revenue.
@10j another mad comment from someone clearly not close enough to understand what’s gone on the last few years.
hav no fear, BLink will fix all things
and if not, he will hire his neighbors cousins friends nephews nieces like kn and shank
y we need more cuzins
Leadership when AVGO acquired VMW - "VMW was really the reason EUC couldn't grow"
Leadership when AVGO sold EUC to KKR - "Good riddance, who really wants to be at AVGO? Now we can truly fly!"
The arrogance back then was truly shocking. There was a lot of complaining about "the core", but none of the technology specialists could do any selling. Many (even today) don't know what their customers own, how they purchase, or what contracts are needed, etc.
Many AEs are too scared to have real conversations with their customers and just push for larger and larger discount in their race to the bottom. And not just AEs. Their leaders too ( all the way up to geo leaders in many cases)
Reduce headcount in Sales, flatten the sale management structure, reduce number of regions, reduce AEs and SAs. Get real about market cap. You are looking for a floor right now. Omnissa is Niche tech, and customers dont believe the company functional place in tech 6, 12 months out. its over priced, gtm is legacy. Its an inside sales organization that behaves as enterprise sales org, with that price tag. Start there, oh get the bad apples out. is beyond numbers at this point. the entire org needs an overhall.
Agreed, it's all rest and no vest. Don't you wish you still had real stock grants? I do.
@pp "Now we can truly fly!" Where? Into a cliff face and perish.
Let's hope Singh is a better pilot than Iyer. It's a low bar to exceed.
Leadership when AVGO acquired VMW - "VMW was really the reason EUC couldn't grow"
Leadership when AVGO sold EUC to KKR - "Good riddance, who really wants to be at AVGO? Now we can truly fly!"
"Singh must have a series of skip-level meetings with the employees who aren't stuck in the old "rest and vest" mindset that was so typical of the VMware culture."
what vest? (the rest part is true though, but honestly what do you expect when you have no incentive)
@k0 there is no such thing as rest and vest at Omni, that was for the lucky ones retained by BC with stock options.
"Which departments will experience the greatest headcount reduction?"
Singh must have a series of skip-level meetings with the employees who aren't stuck in the old "rest and vest" mindset that was so typical of the VMware culture. We're surrounded by a group of VPs and Senior Directors who have no intentions of speaking the truth about what is clearly broken in our failing company. Singh needs to cut the headcount with precision, starting at the top. That's the way to win trust and credibility.
Nobody is buying UEM, DEX, or Horizon in a spinoff. Its a race to the bottom with no future. What fantasy trip are you on? You know what Micro Systems like legacy tech.
What a disappointing statement from our new ceo about Horizon. Only one product grew its overall revenue and it was not Workspace one.
If Mr Singh believes that he can outsell Intune by talking about AI agents and endpoint security, he doesn’t understand the competition. Good luck to everyone. We all need it as long as we are in this company.
@dt Marketing has needed a big overhaul for some time. I hope renu and her team are recognizing that O1 is the last time a lot of them will be together and are saying their goodbyes.
I agree, Renu and Jeff should go. Marketing has failed to apply any imagination to describing how our best products benefit customers. They've added people, but no growth ideas that impact sales. We can use their headcount elsewhere.
@a3 sales have already been stripped to the bare bones. Heavily bloated Product org and Marketing should be the next focus. Far too many VPs and Senior Directors. RU and BR have been building their empires but delivering what?
@ar oh no, the end of Horizon Monitor and DEX :)
@ap downsizing maybe early q1 but just a guess
@an he finally said out loud what some of us have had quiet conversations about. Horizon GTM is spending time and money on limited overall opportunity.
@a3 any thoughts on a "downsizing" Horizon timeline? Before the end of the fiscal year?
He doesn’t appear to have much love for Horizon. Anything else is up to your own interpretation.
GTM, marketing, and sales. Then they will trim horizon to the bare bones as this is mainly legacy tech and sticky customers. That revenue will be poured into modernizing UEM with "ai". expect an acquisition of his non profit ai company and an eventual sale of horizon to another PE and UEM to get purchased by crowdstrike or google, or most likely another PE.