Any news on lay offs being Friday 10/2?
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@1de I agree. Having worked in the Seattle market for 20 years and many, many jobs I can honestly say as a white lady that I wouldn't have the skills I do if it hadn't been for folks from India, both women and men. I definitely encountered some misogyny but by and large, my experience was that many contacted me to gain the soft skills of translating business to tech and really desiring to understand data architecture, how business rules translated to data quality, understanding how Data Governance as a practice when done correctly ensured the data was correct. I've had very few experiences like that with white male peers. I am very grateful to those Folks from India for helping me on the tech side, especially since I went into DB technologies in 1998 and I am entirely self-taught.
@1de I don’t mean to be rude but I think you need to open your eyes and see what is going on. Have to recognize early because if you wait too long, the country will be taken over and believe me, they will choose to keep is down from getting any good paying jobs should they be in the majority.
I could do without all the hate speak toward our Indian colleagues. Be better.
@h7 Don't worry. They have HIH Indian engineers willing to do the job for 1/4 of the price. Who cares if the work is also a 1/4 of the quality of US employees. If I were HIH people I'd tell Cigna to F'off. Pay me what the US employees are making. Talk about being taken advantage of, jeez.
There really should be some sort of offshore labor tax / tariff layered on the HIH labor. Although, HIH is a temporary solution to save money. In the long term, AI is going to be leveraged to reduce labor to 1/4 of what it is now, both onshore and offshore. Sad.
@ef they were given notice yesterday or this upcoming october date?
@ef The company is not very wise to be letting for engineers. Engineers are the backbone of data driven companies. But they think AI can do their jobs, I guess. Big mistake.
I am an engineer myself that was pushed out of Humana a couple years ago. I humbly say that I was really good at my job. Not necessarily because I am super smart, although I am relatively smart. But because of all of the varios roles and companies of different sizes and various unique challenging issues to overcome that got me into that role eventually. There is hardly no kind of data issue I have not stumbled across and had to find a solution, sometimes a very unique solution.
Anyway, that is what engineers have to bring to the table. Although, I must confess being semi-retired is allowing me to enjoy learning new things like cooking various Tex-Mex recipes from scratch. More fun than I had anticipated.
@ef yet we are still keeping useless KA in Digital and her useless managers in her org.
Just found out that we are losing a Software engineering principal manager FTE and two contractors. They worked on two recent lift and shift projects to move rapidly from a legacy MDM solution to a new one and got it done in less than 7 months for two separate and extremely complex data domains. What a shame.
The rumors have been 10/8 and 10/15. While layoffs can happen in any individual organization at any time, there is no information suggesting large scale layoffs on 10/2 (or 10/1, considering they happen on Thursdays)
@OP I thought they always did the notifications of layoffs on Thursdays.