What are the chances of layoffs between now and Dec 31? DPMs are accelerating this year.
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It's because cost cutting is addictive,
and once your main focus is cost cutting, you forget how to innovate (which is a science in of itself). eventually that strategy will lose the game and you'll never be "great" again. you'll just be average and constantly behind the curve (you'll have to keep buying into new markets instead of creating them). thus you'll never be first to market.
its hard and expensive to have a truly innovative company. You've got to be a bit of an entrepreneur and embrace risk to pull it off. its much safer to not do that, and always come in third place.
The funny thing is that they try to pretend we are out of the cycle. 2020 is about winning and we are done being on defense, they say. Then why are 2020 budgets slashed almost across the board and more devs are being offshored? At least be honest with us.
yes correct
@11XKjng3-yih Sabre has had several wins in 2019. Their problem is, they're off-shoring to the point that those wins become meaningless. You get what you pay for. Mixing corporate cultures has proven to be a corporate k–ler on more than one occasion. Dance with the ones who brung ya.
Finally, someone that knows what they're typing about ~ on several levels. Hopefully, you're new to HQ-M and will have an opportunity to change the "culture." Cheers!
The layoff cycle /dpms/lqi etc. arent really related. Senior leadership goes through the cycle of telling and prepping lower management for layoffs every quarter.
That means lists are targeted, prepped and readied. Then it goes to a deep dark hole of exec level and HR/finance level and about 50 percent of the time, nothing happens.
The problem with a company that can't produce major wins, you never get out of the cycle of cost cuts. This constantly beats down your teams. At some point people lose all the motivation and energy to do what's good, and they just realize they need to find another home and they spend their energy on that.