Thread regarding Fidelity Investments layoffs

@h8 close. They are not responsible for priority alone. They work with PM to balance tech debt and TLM with product priority. They are responsible for how. Product is responsible for what and why.

Engineering Leaders are the people managers of the technical (engineering) resources for a given workstream. They are responsible for coaching and developing the technical skills of their associates, helping solve design challenges, they are also responsible for prioritizing the delivery backlog - and running/planning the sprints.

Waste of a good seat.

They are specialized Non techno functional (Neither technical nor functional) bootlickers who can’t even articulate full sentences without breaks. God knows how they survive for multi decades.

Useless, lots of middle people - neither technical or business savvy. Useless as leaders with poor communication, not sure why anyone would hire them.

“Leadership” only cares about badge swipes and categorizing work in Jira. They got rid of scrum masters and all the team does now is talk about tracking and jira administration. Painful. They wanted “transparency” and all they got was more bureaucracy.

I've worked for a number of companies and it is painfully obvious that Fidelity does have alot of useless roles. I've never seen so much buck-passing in a company. You ask a question of an engineering leader regarding their team for an engineering issue and they have no clue who handles that particular app/function so they pass the buck to someone else. It really is incredible how inept some people are here. It just boggles the mind. Yes, this company could be thinned by getting rid of these folks and then you have solved your space issue..probably could get your own cube/workspace.

Mostly parasitic in nature, functioning solely as a reporting service for senior management.