Thread regarding Sabre Holdings layoffs

I agree with @2tlt+14enX5SF

Having worked in this industry for that past few years I can safely say that the all-round quality is far below other industries. I think there's a couple of reasons for that, one being that most talented engineers are completely put off by the thought of doing things like it's the 90's. Honestly, the IT function is a joke and software engineering is generally relegated to doing stupid c-ap with bulky XML implementations. Even NDC is a bit a joke compared to the standards in other industries. Finance had a unified standard for OTC 30 years ago. Granted Sabre has rebuilt a state-of-the-art DC, but that's that not an all-inclusive project. The technology world has been flying (excuse the pun) whilst airline tech is crawling in the past. Crikey, even the banks abstracted all that old code underneath more interesting layers. It's all a load of c-ap, right down to the repurposing of industry codes, jerry-rigged to make the whole system work. At what point does someone actually rip all the legacy c-ap out and re-platform/rebuild/re-architect? I've been in this space for a little over 3 years and I regretted the move by year 2. It's ridiculous how often I'm asked to do something the wrong way just because it's the quickest way to get to production. The sh– people will sell is ridiculous. Customized dog c-ap for a one-off solution. If it was designed correctly then the solution could be sold many times. Time to get out and get into something more progressive. I'm done with the dinosaur sh–.

The talent's not lousy, it's average. Not to mention hard working, in my experience, anyway. Management is downright horrendous though. Sometimes it seems as if they are literally trying to tank the business.

Even with average talent sabre could make a go of it if management was even marginally competent.

I know this is going to get negative reactions. But here's the truth. The problem is not bad managers. The problem is lousy tech talent. Google is not built on great leadership. It is built on a world class tech talent. Granted that it takes good leadership to get good talent. But let's be honest here, no amount of leadership talent is going to convince top talent to come to Sabre.

Replacing the leaders will not help. The damage is done and it will take years and a tremendous amount of money to straighten things out.

As @1urk+14enX5SF stated and is abundantly consistent across this platform - Replace the leaders, and this place will come back to its old glory. Replacing the managers and directors will guarantee Sabre is still around in next 5 years.

rotfl why would even Google want to acquire Sabre ? for 20 years old booking and flight search ? for overpaid VP/SVP and broken organisation culture?
Give me a break, they would be able to create such business from scratch easily if they wanted - but this is dying market, the years after crisis and blockchain decentralization of reservations will shut down this business anyway.

I should add that the zeros apply to management, from SM to the lowest level managers . To be honest, I haven't seen a competent (or non-self serving) manager in years.

As others have commented, if you raise your hand you get canned. If you point out gross mismanagement or inefficiency you get dinged in a review. The result is a bunch of yes men on a sinking ship.

Someone aptly pointed out that there are some hard working people that care but they just don't have the means to do a great job. So true, this just isn't a "top talent" outfit. That being said those hard workers that care could take the company far with different management.

A shell, indeed. It's pretty obvious sabre is living off the back of it's predacessors at this point. Zero sense of where to expend effort. No cogent plan for the future. Zero appreciation of human capital that is generating multiples more revenue than they cost. What a f'ing disaster.

Google acquisition is an interesting notion. If it happens expect mass layoffs. Regarding share price, sabre will be sub four bucks within six weeks. Time will tell for those foolish enough to still be clinging to this sinking ship.

the time for that was at 3 bucks a share

Wishful thinking. Sabre is only a shell of its former self.