Amit ain't it !! Please RIF that fool and save everyone some money!
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His favorite sentence is, "We've decided to take the company in another direction and your position is being eliminated. Your last day is . . . . "
He has that one memorized and uses it frequently, that's what he's good at!!!
Holy ish, Amit getting put out to pasture! Wow! In terms of Sr Leaders getting ROASTED, it’s Amit in the lead (and it’s not close), Elad runner up, and Fraser probably rounding out bronze. I agree that there are major human and leadership faults with all of them, but were they ever really going to solve for the complexity left in the biller, leading to continued promo pricing madness for the customer? No. That’s on countless Care leaders and the Div/Region constructs who would never shut up about their unique market challenge and the next SVP rule. It didn’t work folks. ALL SLT are to blame. Corp and Divisions, Regions, and Markets. But Corp SLT needed to resolve for reliability on account of how many products they kept shipping that promised the next great revelation. Alas. It’s too late and they’re all culpable. Somebody collapse the biller to unified holistic prices. Somebody collapse all reliability and do it better than we are because we can’t afford not to, and fix the care response once and for all. Rebrand the entire product based on ‘we listened’ and take on cost and revenue loss water to do so. We know what the customer wants, it’s those things. But watch, we won’t do it. See you all in the job market for the next five years worth of attrition and slow death.
@r2 imagine his salary, bonus, stock awards and all special benefits he collects for no absolutely return on a investment....
@px he sure isn't a technical leader. He was a natural language researcher leading an obscure recommendations team in DC. In 2020 he was just an executive director who took over product engineering and was promoted more than anyone else in his organization, and in just 5 years he became the Chief Data & AI officer without ever succeeding on anything. Just look at the current state of entertainmentOS for proof. Now Wallace, instead of advancing connectivity, which is where he belongs, has to clean up after Amit...
@nj he uses “candor” as an excuse to be as rude and demeaning.
I have only seen him come up with fancy Acronynms in All Hands, AUA, IOA, VHOB and those repetitive jokes which are not funny.. I am pretty sure AI staff will be thinned further since we don't have any work or direction.
@nj Amit is not a technical leader. Amit is a hatchet-man. He is used as a tool of leadership to reduce staff and cut budgets...period. Just ask him to spell AI and you will see straight away, the guy is clueless.
We lost some strong leaders in Dx under Amit Bagga. The stated reason was “candor,” (he kept repeating this term several times) but candor only works when the person delivering it is a competent leader. When leadership is weak, “candor” just becomes a cover for poor decisions and unnecessary attrition.
It’s still unclear why he’s in the CDO role. He rarely shows up on the floor or spends time with the engineers and staff who actually ship the work. That kind of distance is hard to square with a technical leadership position.
@gx Agree. Amit is a terrible human
@dt Amit was and is not part of any boy’s club including Fraser’s. Amit only looks out for himself.
@ds time will tell...
Fraser boy's club somehow seems to have survived his demotion, too, even his secret PR guy who seems to do nothing but make one-picture slides for Fraser to use to spin bullsh-t. Looking forward to SC working more closely with him... and discovering just how little he actually delivers. In my dreams I imagine lasting enough layoff rounds to see Fraser escorted out the door with his box of wine bottles and rugby trophies.
@cf yea no idea how you pulled this together but this is not it.
@a9 that is solid leadership! If everyone quits then his costs drop but he still produces the same as today:
Nothing
He’s incredibly rude and creates/perpetuates a toxic culture while providing no strategy or direction. He would rather criticize and blame others than take ownership and be accountable. Hmmm. Sensing a pattern here.
@a9 when did this happen?
@OP just look at the state he left entertainment... Fraser's demotion is on Amit alone. He was pushed out after delivering nothing, embarrassing Fraser, and breaking their entire tech stack, but allowed to fail upwards, like a good entertainment bro. Now he gets to play the tough leader again, but on a different org.
Amit hasn't delivered anything. No AI, No Data strategy. Nothing. Not sure why is was even awarded the job...
@OP - he actual told our entire org during an All Hands to find another job if he is such a bad leader....spoiler alert, he is!!