Thread regarding VISA Inc. layoffs

@e0 I am currently involved in a project where our meetings consist of three SWEs (including me) and eight directors or senior directors from various teams. They all give us contradictory requirements, and they flat-out refuse to write anything down. Meanwhile, they constantly congratulate each other on their "success"
In reality, the app doesn’t work. We are severely understaffed and can’t keep up with the workload, so we are just making the UI look nice. None of us have ever worked with AI before, but they want it integrated everywhere so you can imagine how bad things are under the hood. We rely entirely on Claude just to get by. The directors don’t actually use the app anyway; they just present the "progress" to VPs and SVPs. I feel like I'm losing my mind every single day..

Spot on. I once spent months on a project staffed with 2 developers, 8 project managers, 4 Directors, and 2 VPs. The ratio was absurd. When board pressures the C-Suite, those mo--ns cut the individual contributors who actually deliver the work, leaving top-heavy structures behind. It’s an unsustainable model, and the operational impact will show up in their results soon enough.

Which Team is that?

Yep and now they can be automated!

Bye!

Look on the bright side! Thanks to Gen AI and VATC, those directors now produce 3x the output of their previous reports! /s