The longer these layoffs drag on, the more talented people are leaving on their own terms for better jobs in better cities. Is that really what leadership wants?
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Innovation needs a reset, where are the visionaries that do the work…
Titles are inflated here anyway, senior director is like a M1 maybe M2 in tech at most.
The highest level of execs still has yet to realize the amount of talent that was let go in the April round of layoffs. They also have yet to realize the amount of buffoons that still hold leadership titles, that are literally tanking the company every week. I myself am stocking up on a massive pile of popcorn for the amount of outages that are coming this holiday season.
I see so many people the last few months leaving and landing better roles that it pains me. You can easily tell the good ones from those who were brought down to reality. Former senior directors now reduced to product managers for example. Probably at massive cuts and forced to do real work now like us. Welcome to where you should have been and how we got to where we are now here!
Every week I hear about all the issues we have in meetings as people complain then see how we let good ones go or leave it reinforces leaders have no idea what they are doing and fear great talent will expose them.
Great talent built this company and bad talent forced them out.
Leadership only cares about enriching themselves and the shareholders.
Bean counters don't care about knowledge or experience. Cost is the only factor that matters. They can hire more talent when they need it.
Sr. Director and above has been an echo camber for years. It HR focused more balanced to growing talent below that level, capabilities may be developed and we could be this 'World Class Company'. But what we have is ring fencing. The people at the Sr. Director or VP level aren't competing, they're surviving by eliminating the competition, right or wrong. Its whats best for them, not the company or the people reporting up to them.
How much money can I make in 'x' before I get 'got'. We're investing in the wrong places and not the people doing the work. Note, I'm not talking all Sr. Directors or VPs... but I'm talking about the majority, 60 - 70%... likely more. There are good ones out there and you know who you are.
They want us to quit so they can replace us with Indiansin bengapoopoo
There is no leadership.
Only people in a position of management… that have no comprehension of what it means to be a leader.
Leadership is earned. Not given.
Thus, no one left to care whether or not you go.
Leave… and then the narrative is woven against the strategic pillar of cost saving.
Stay… and the dashboard of retained population is a tout to reflect their greatness.
Leave. Stay. Good talent. Great talent. Bad talent. For the echelon that is the ruling elite of NKE doesn’t care.
The average VP won’t be here long enough to see the fall of NKE. Just that the options pay less than the echos of their predecessors.
It’s not that the magic is gone. It’s that there isn’t anyone left that both remembers its true form… and has voice enough to speak it.
Leadership doesn’t care if we lose talent as long as it balances the books. Just don’t think too hard about what that means long term for the company
Yes! So there’s no severance to pay.