Does anyone have a count of individuals working at Cary NC or committed to be there after COVID-19? They are hardly hiding the fact that Cary was a mechanism to get older IT workers in Rochester off the payroll. Any insight would be interesting, including whether you were given the opportunity to relocate.
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Per that opening day high speed video of the facility, it looked like it could be emptied out in a day or less. By design most likely
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Who in Cary would come to work for a company with a questionable & limited future? A Technology Powerhouse with no one in C-Suite having a solid and comprehensive grasp of developing, sustainable, patentable and profitable technology??? Seriously, this group can barely keep current or aged technology afloat from quarter to quarter.
This site is garbage. Why do posters keep posting the same posts - this EXACT post was here months ago.
Just to clarify, the talent is there in Raleigh/Durham and Xerox knows it. The company just does not want to pay for it. Xerox looked at setting-up an AI focused facility in the pre-Icahn days as it was considered the way of the future (it is) and there was not enough AI talent available in Rochester while the company could not afford the talent in the Bay Area (PARC). From what I heard, Denver, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Raleigh/Durham and were all seriously looked at. Boston and Seattle were eliminated early due to cost, too, while Toronto was discarded due to the focus being on a US location (foolish). The effort continued even through the proposed FX deal (with their support), but fizzled when Icahn stepped in. I was not part of this Cary effort, though it does look like some of prior work was passed through to this. Nevertheless, you are correct, the salary, benefits, development (is there even a development budget today?), and business model (does anyone in the C-Suite even know what R&D is?) makes Xerox very unattractive when compared to some of the big tech firms in the area like IBM, Cisco, Lenovo, SAS, etc.
The leadership(?) team is committed to 1- getting rid of all Rochester IT talent, 2- moving IT operations to Cary. Unfortunately, people are too smart to fall for the lie of Technology Powerhouse. Xerox can't find decent talent to hire in Cary. Maybe it's the terrible benefits or low salary. This is what happens when a company has a leadership team that is lead astray by it's own lies. The nerve of these fools to believe they could move to a highly competitive city and play in the major leagues. While they relentlessly pursue a pipe dream, customers have paid the price. But as customers flee so does their money.