Ex-WF here—laid off after a cloud migration flop. WF’s apps are a customer fail—legacy sludge, no cloud game. My gig: 2-page web app, TFS to GitHub, three EF libraries—cr-ppy LINQ, SQL, and a Windows cache that tanked in the cloud. Redis kludged it stateside, but India’s lag (honking debug calls) sc--wed it. Delivered—unified data—then dumped to a VB.NET nightmare. Team of 15, bogged down training, WF’s Angular lib (Java-to-.NET half-assed) stalled us. Six weeks in, 12 Microsoft consultants hit—Azure-only lock-in, no K8s. Five weeks later, I’m cut.
Offshoring’s WF’s crutch—US fixes India’s garbage (https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jp0d1hxs). Job counts? JPM’s 299 AI/84 Agentic dwarfs WF’s 19/4—15x AI, 21x Agentic. Citi’s 123/3 still laps WF 6x on AI. WF’s 4 Agentic? 3 in India—US near zero. JPM’s AI army (280 over WF’s AI, 80 over Agentic) screams evolution—WF’s a backwater. Posts say ex-JPMers flood WF (https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jns4661y)—AI ousted mgrs (https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jp0v10rt) jumping ship. WF’s a lifeboat for JPM’s castoffs—hiring ex-JPM brass’s buddies, not talent.
Toxic debt’s ripe—silos, untested apps, outage bait. Churn the BECs—fear ki-ls agile, training’s offshore-only. JPM’s AI wave’s churning, WF’s sinking—next flop’s coming. Ex-staff: heal, spill—HR, wake up.
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Wha..Whaaaaat?
WTF is this OP?
Did you have a dr-g infused rage or did you just miss your daily meds?
Geezuz. You seriously need to get out more or something.
Apparently the first thing they do when they diagnose you with schizophrenia is confiscate your enter key.
VB.NET !