Extracted from a thread began on @OP+1jgxdnf0h

From an investment standpoint, it's important to recognize that a company’s primary contractual obligation is to compensate you for the hours you work. Beyond that, everything is governed by established HR policies. As an employee, your... — read more 

Fear, uncertainty, and doubt about the future of the company is having visible and palpable effects on morale. It might not be obvious to upper management but the lack of information regarding the IPO/sale is a huge drain on energy and motivation... — read more 

Google offering ‘voluntary exit https://9to5google.com/2025/01/30/pixel-android-voluntary-exit-employees

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnvqe3le3z4o VRBP please!

Revenue flat. Seeking “outside help” to cut costs. What does that sound like to you?

Andy Pavlo’s year in review has only the smallest mention of Singlestore: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2025/01/2024-databases-retrospective.html Another funding round and not an IPO for the MemSQL company? Has the partnership with... — read more 

Assuming Viya is seen as SAS’ modern infrastructure for delivering cloud-based data, analytics and AI,, can anything be done to strengthen its appeal in the market? Idealistically, this could Yes for reaching as major architectural re-factoring... — read more 

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/thorkiljohansen_sas-sasreplacement-altair-activity-7282715004183695361-7bH_?utm_medium=ios_app&utm_source=social_share_sheet&utm_campaign=copy_link Responses from BH and others

https://youtu.be/XcG6CpxKFnU?si=yzMGQn_u_tSA_8uf @1:55 on

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sas_our-executive-team-visited-nasdaq-and-nyse-activity-7282758011624816640-elB5?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios

Folks say JMP is profitable . J So far MP has been insulated from layoffs jMP has been a subsidiary for quite awhile. Likely that was done with the intention of it going solo. The biggest argument people make is SAS will sell faster if JMP... — read more 

Many people keep commenting how the company is failing and get out while you can. Do people really not have any hope for the company? Can it be saved? Or is it really a dying dinosaur?

At one time, there was a goal to make V9 and Viya compatible, i.e. "One SAS". Is compatibility being actively pursued? or have they given up?

A lot of people who post here are from SAS R&D. Are you aware of, or have even thought about, the fact that products being developed for market by an R&D function is not normal for a software company? It's normal for some industries like... — read more 

If only H1Bs could have been increased 10 years ago when the BG wanted to hire 200 more developers then today’s situation could have been avoided. Instead, the burden of B and C players grew heavy and that was a fundamental reason for the... — read more 

Grateful to have had a mostly successful and moderately long career at SAS. But time runs out on all games. While I hope for the best this coming year, I'm also preparing for the worst. Not seeing anything that inspires confidence that the... — read more 

https://youtu.be/XPQt1yElRDY?si=qzLhDgIIAZHh3ixi

In our time at SAS Institute, we had a variety of experiences. Some report positive experiences, and some negative. Many of us had a mix of both. From any experience, we should learn what we can, and then move on. One of my New Year's resolutions... — read more 

Trying to decide if I should join SAS as an intern? Is it a prefered company to intern at?

SAS has promised to be “IPO-ready” in 2025. That doesn't mean an IPO will take place, and some of us believe it won't. But it makes sense to plan ahead, if you may be affected. How would an IPO affect SAS employees? If SAS IPOs in 2025, what will... — read more 

The threads on this site are full of arguments about sales and other company what not. Most devolve into t-t-for-tat arguments, similar to those of children playing cops and robbers. This comment is from a post on Linked In regarding Carl Sagan's... — read more 

I want news, but I'll accept conjecture.

Whoever got butthurt at their comments getting downvoted and wrote the script that auto-votes all posts and comments so the number of likes and dislikes are always even, thanks for nothing. You singlehandedly ruined the SAS page on this site... — read more 

Reasons: Since the Broadcom discussions, every action SAS has taken facilitates an IPO or private sale. Clearly, no acceptable private offer has been made. A private buyer would be interested only in the $3B annual revenue stream. The recent... — read more 

Intentional, planned disruption, along with massive, across the board change has worked so well that it should be tried at a much larger scale.

A synthetic data software co. to boost SAS’s Gen AI portfolio. Does this acquisition push back SAS’s IPO/sale timeline? A sign of a changing strategy to hang in and compete?... — read more 

Go!!!!

After the recent reorganization in R&D, several managerial positions have been eliminated. Are there still any statisticians left at SAS, formerly known as Statistical Analysis System? Are testers now fixing bugs as a developer? It sure looks like... — read more 

I've noticed that someone, or a few someones, are deliberately downvoting and upvoting every comment on every post so that the + and - are equal and every comment shows as 0 activity. even if it's unbalanced for a little while, the elves come back... — read more 

9 people let go today in Sydney & Melbourne.

It’s memory safety that’s a problem. Just look at the number of crashes and hangs reported to Technical Support over the years. The Rust language, already embraced within the company, can fix these problems. Automated translation of the C source... — read more 

As if Viya is not a failure, SAS is doubling down by starting a project called Applied AI and Modeling which is DOA. They want to now sell model as a service to compete against pre- trained open source AI models. This is a tactic by the department... — read more 

Diehards say forever. Some say 3-5 years, some say 5-10 max. Most people I know are in the 3-5 years camp. Lately it feels like another 2 years would be an accomplishment.

https://youtu.be/uOIPmQrrgnQ?si=6h1vMBB1FLWtW5P9 Skip to @6:20 for the lowdown. SAS could awaken to this and make the painful cuts and radical changes necessary to carve new opportunities in niche markets. Not thinking a “Viya facelift” but... — read more 

Can I safely assume this is SAS fraud framework? https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/17/business/ai-fraud-treasury/index.html

@ezr+1v0e56ih “Customers don't want the current products and nothing new is being built anymore” A damning statement. Is it true?

Have been a SAS employee in marketing for a little over 6 years. I have noticed since the pandemic the meetings are way out of control but have gotten even worse since this GCC stuff started. Stop having so many meetings and SAS won't need to lay... — read more 

Layoffs are hot right now -- wonder how many in the division were impacted.