More of us are out today...
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EDU has some of the best talents in SAS. They know the products, know the customers, can market and sell SAS products better than a lot of others!
EDU people have contributed significantly to pre-sales,sales, and customer success activities, without having their contributions being well tracked or money credits given. EDU people are also engaged with R&D, pioneered in testing and debugging softwares, suggesting features, and helping customers understand the latest technical innovations. Moreover, EDU is taking the heaviest load of introducing SAS to the younger tech generations -collaborating with colleges, modern YouTube content and webinars. This is what SAS desperately needs.
EDU plays an important role in SAS, that is not well measured by money. If you happen to hire an EDU alumni, you will get a good talent in house.
the company always prided itself on hands on training. when business ws booming there was a market for it or they never would have built Bldg A.
coming to Cary offered the whole experience. post covid people don't want that. and even if they do they can't get their companies to pay for travel and hotels.
this to me is a sign that the eliminations are at least sort of strategic. that is encouraging.
Well, at least the Art Department is safe.
Agree with the below poster. Concerning that both this year and last, EDU people have been let go while the GEL people stick around. Not sure how we’re going to move forward without an editing/production team
When will anyone from JM’s original GEL team now in education be let go? A bunch of misogynistic, a-holes that cover for one another. JM has high school buddies working for him. Their classes work for internal training but are cr-p for external. Very poor quality presentations and notes. (And, they just laid off everyone that fixed that!!). Technically sound, but fixing broken classroom labs on the fly won’t cut it for customers when they are trying to do exercises.
“managers and individual contributors in Education. 24 people I heard”
If really 24, that’s a a huge number of layoffs for Education - were they all Cary based?
“OP is just stirring the pot.”
What a DOOSH!
It is hard to get training revenue from customers who just want short, free, tube videos.
the EDU editing team is gone. not sure who else
from a current, good, honest worker, with no malice towards anyone (for all you mean critical folks): management and non-management affected
Which IC positions in the layoffs? Education has been hit hard the last two years. They’re the technical SMEs within customer success
I know at least 4 in education who were laid off today. Probably more
Which group(s) within Education?
Education hit again. Sigh.
managers and individual contributors in Education. 24 people I heard
OP is just stirring the pot.
#popcorn indeed.
As written, useless. Add details!
Did anyone in management get the layoff today or just the rank and file?
what area