Thread regarding Verizon Communications Inc. layoffs

I don’t know Vivek personally so I cannot attest to his character as a human. However I can say with confidence that the most important applications at Verizon outside of network operations fall under his purview. Point of sale takes in some 70+% of ALL of Verizon’s revenue. ACSS is a superset of that software. This software is utter garbage. I mean it’s just layers on layers of undocumented spaghetti code written by contractors that were seemingly plucked from the streets, paid 50,000/yr, and whose agency was billing Verizon 120,000/yr for their time here. At a company with Verizons profits a full stack developer should reasonably expect to start here and be able to search a UI for any service or data they need to build pretty much anything you could conceive. Yet you won’t find a single shred of such documentation. GTS leadership has passively allowed layers and layers of teams to be stood up where each team only works on one segment of one leg of any end to end business process. No one engineer is empowered to build a single feature holistically end to end without pulling people from 2-3+ teams to get the job done. Often the job is just chaining some API calls and making a UI to display the results. Something a decent college CS graduate could build independently if there was proper documentation. Instead engineers are tasked with endless non-funded pet projects in some obscene race to be the team that shows the shiniest little half functional proof of concept to the nearest VP. All the while our most integral systems are held together with popsicle sticks, glue, and chewed up bubblegum. Everything is expected to be done yesterday. No one cares about code quality thus software/product quality. Most of the leaders within GTS could not solve a leetcode medium if their families lives depended on it, assuming they even knew what leetcode was. The sad part is the same is true for most of the Principle Engineers, Distinguished, and associate fellows and fellows as well. All these guys do is sit in calls so they can steal each others ideas. Then go implement them in some shoddy fashion so they can say they did it. Who cares if it works in production or provides any tangible return on investment for the time expenditure. The engineering culture at Verizon is utter garbage and it is perpetuated by the leadership within GTS. It is beyond simple incompetence, the leadership in GTS does not even have an idea of what competent software delivery is. It’s not incompetence because that would imply some intent to do things correctly. It’s simple ignorance. I have seen a VP of Site Reliability Engineering shoot down a Distinguished Engineers suggestion that engineers should be able to run the code that they are working in locally to validate results. The VP thought that was an absurd request. To put that in layman's terms the guy was just saying that when I paint a picture I should be able to see the canvas as I paint. That was dismissed. That’s the level of ignorance we’re dealing with. To reverse this level of cancerous spread you would need to inundate GTS with so much chemotherapy and radiation it likely would die out before any recovery was ever observed. I really do believe that the only way back is just terminating all of GTS leadership. Stop all software delivery. Bring in VP’s from actual tech companies who have actual software engineering experience within the past decade. Allow them to document ALL of the inner workings of the existing systems. Publish that documentation to OneConfluence or some adjacent documentation platform. Grant access to this documentation to ALL VZ Software Engineers. Release all of our Fellows, and Associate Fellows. Replace them with real engineers from real tech companies. THEN you can START redesigning the systems that collect all of VZ’s money. So regardless of Viveks character do you really think he is prepared to make this level of systemic change to how Verizon delivers software? Or do you think he will just perpetuate slop delivery ad nauseam until Verizon crumbles or someone does the needful that I have laid out here?

Why does VZ retain execs over a decade at top level positions .
Why?

wow, a lot of rahul than vivek on a vivek post!! huh!!!

@ad I think the one you mean is Bobby Rahal.

3…. 2… 1… and this thread will get deleted .. just wait for it.

If you can’t answer criticism, Just suppress it

@ag I agree on his choice of leadership choices.. Do not have to look further than his direct reports. Some of them are not even qualified to be on the positions they are on.. Think of someone having 4 years of total experience reporting to him and taking decisions on budgets.

@ab I am in Business team. I was told that I can’t push a change to 700k customers at once due to legacy system.
what were they doing all this while? Can’t imagine a company as large as Verizon to have such outdated systems.

@ab his leadership??? Rofl.. where? He still has 50 year systems that he's done nothing with, while wasting money on pet projects. He's built management layers that provide no value. He promotes the people he likes regardless of qualifications or promotes just based on where your seat is.

He good as a Director and Exec Dir... once he got to VP.... he completely changed and went downhill from there....

@aa question, which of the Rahuls', Rahul K, or Rahul P, or Rahul V or RMV, is the difficulty?

Everyone, let’s take a step back. Vivek is the main reason GTS is operating successfully right now. He has been holding down the fort for the technology team and doing everything possible to keep things running. He manages one of our most complex and challenging legacy areas. Without his leadership, managing this department would be incredibly difficult and any major missteps could seriously jeopardize the company's stability.

Alfanso need to address severe leadership issues involving Vivek, his VPs and Rahul. The current team dynamic feels exclusionary and Rahul’s unprofessional behavior driven by favoritism is harming morale. For the sake of the company culture, leadership changes must be made.

@a7 could you get AI to rewrite so I can follow along?

What does the current incumbent in the Oval Office have to do with Verizon's success, RIFs, market capitalization, market share, and lagging stock price???

@OP: mostly everyone with heritage of South Asia, making up the majority of the Indian subcontinent, descent -- HATE VIVEK!!!

Dont comprehend, Vivek continues after the EVP, Shank's, departure??

@a3: AGREED!!!!

The chosen one? Nah mate - he's going to be leading VCG starting in August.

• THAT- Is the mafia that needs to be dealt with.

$500 bet that this thread will get deleted. Any post related to him or his mafia’s get deleted right away.