Thread regarding Comcast layoffs

@ee I am sure I have more experience than you. It's also to chat with smart people, not with anger inside them, trying to be little others.
Comcast spent thousands on people to make them move to work for them, it's an investment, same for getting people trained to new technologies just to let them go months after.
It simply proves that this company has no vision at all. Leadership is bad, and they throw money out the window. Maybe cutting these people will make things better and more efficient.

The simple answer that explains all of it is because Comcast has terrible leaders. Since there’s no vision or strategy coming from the top it means that the organization is unable to clearly say these jobs over here are the ones we need filled right now while these other ones will just have to wait.

The additional problem is that Comcast leaders are not rewarded for how efficient they run their teams. Instead they’re rewarded for how big of an empire they are able to build under themselves. Which as it happens also helps protect them every year when finance comes around and says you need to layoff X number of people this fall. And for the record finance has no clue what’s needed to run an efficient org either. They’re just making sh-t up when they determine which teams need to cut headcount. Put all of that in a blender and you get what you’re describing.

@OP Tell me you’re an entry-level hire without telling me. Believing a 2027 project roadmap protects headcount from a quarterly balance sheet is adorable.

@as Many such cases unfortunately. I could write a novel on how horrible the hiring practices are at Comcast. I won't, but I will share a quick story: my dept has had MULTIPLE instances recently of us being allowed to post a position, take internal and external candidates through 3 rounds of interviews, and have them verbally offered the position, only for the position to get completely eliminated when it comes time for an offer letter to go out. What is even going on here? What are we doing?

I was one of those folks on the brand and comms team impacted. And Honestly...I am thrilled. Why? Because I have many years of experience in my field at a high level; my team downsized in month 3 when I started, then the VP left for another role, not before downsizing again, then an erratic director who was threatened by my experience. I know the market is hard, but I am getting ALOT of outreach from recruiters, etc. The root issue is again the executive leadership here. Classic "Pet To Threat". For all my folks specifically on the Brand and Comms team who were laid off, do not feel bad, take the severance, view it as a blessing, and pound the LinkedIn pavement. Never, ever, ever stress over insecure people or people threatened by your shine. Sending interviews, prayers, and job offers.

I keep saying it. People in executive leadership these days have no leadership skills or critical thinking skills. They went to the Ivy League schools on mommy and daddy’s money, learned only what was told to them by a professor with no real world experience himself and when they came out, they walked into the corporate without enough real world experience to work at a local convenience store. That who is running companies today in America. It’s not just Comcast. Altice/Optimum or whoever they are this week has the same type leadership.

It's wild. My boss had a spidey sense about this and paused on offering a guy a role where he'd have to move halfway across the country. Maybe a week or two after he decided to wait before he made an offer: department and role eliminated.