Once again what a lame communication from this "new" org in product. Guess what people, you got laid off because AI costs money. Ooh surprise...
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KK is a failed leader who could not deliver a single item when she ran research and CPO. Child of DE&I.
JC used to be a good individual but turned on his own people and old friends. Very sad to see how he changed to save his own
@ar I won't cry over the managers feelings. I'm.sire they are well covered financially and su-king enough Snake to be safe.
Perhaps all that are so angry would want to swap places with those who actually wanted to be here but lost their roles? Atleast there was acknowledgment to the nastiness they were forced to face - would you rather they moderated the questions and refused to answer things like the others who made the same decisions and have been radio silent?
These two "leaders" have no energy, no vision, and no sense that they're rallying people around anything beyond efficiency targets, resource allocation, and the next reorg. KK stumbled through the boys club question and then JC had to mansplain it to try to recover.
What I found surreal is the hypocrisy, the constant assumption that employees should buy into the narrative, guided by 20 or less year of experience managers, mostly men btw, in a performance above all experience, without any clear guidance whatsoever. I can't stand JC...
Blithely install soulless inhumane shortsighted monkeybrains into key/leadership positions, and this is the result.
The whole new org is basically being built to figure out what products, teams and roles are “worth” the money, find duplication and make it easier to shut things down or move people around. Meanwhile they admitted they still don’t have great profitability data, so apparently we’re optimizing the plane while flying it.
Then employees asked completely fair questions about layoffs, trust and transparency and got some version of “it was complicated,” “talk to your manager,” and “one org, one roadmap.” No promise the cuts are over. No actual layoff criteria. No meaningful answer on morale. Just get excited about the roadmap and keep rowing.
So the read between the lines was basically: buckle up, there’s more coming, we may not tell you until it affects you, and please continue to execute enthusiastically in the meantime.