Result of self committed mistakes

Anonymous · 2023-05-08T07:14:59Z

Few reasons for Sabres downfall, Over reliance on Krakow for technology - KRK has tendency to complicate simple problems and systems in the name of technical excellence which leads to mainframe like systems built in Java (complex, costly to change and maintain, difficult to scale and ramp up). There are many cases where wheels are re-invented at a cost of reliability and scalability. Demonising revenue making products and shutting it down to make a way for unproven new products that never makes it to production Too much of water fallish approach - pivoting after spending years and millions for something very simple and basic that should have been asked on day 1 Spending too much on something unrealistic tech products (like NGP) which has no relevance in new era of cloud native architectural philosophy The list is pretty long, but limiting it for now.

Few reasons for Sabres downfall,

Over reliance on Krakow for technology - KRK has tendency to complicate simple problems and systems in the name of technical excellence which leads to mainframe like systems built in Java (complex, costly to change and maintain, difficult to scale and ramp up). There are many cases where wheels are re-invented at a cost of reliability and scalability.
Demonising revenue making products and shutting it down to make a way for unproven new products that never makes it to production
Too much of water fallish approach - pivoting after spending years and millions for something very simple and basic that should have been asked on day 1
Spending too much on something unrealistic tech products (like NGP) which has no relevance in new era of cloud native architectural philosophy

The list is pretty long, but limiting it for now.

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It’s hilarious that y’all are pointing fingers toward each other, while the people who make the poor decisions that put your jobs in jeopardy take home tens of millions in compensation. HDQ, KRK, BLR, MVD: you’re all working bees for our member-of-the-board queens, who make multi-million dollar vacation home purchases while you complain about how expensive eggs have gotten lately. Wake the fudge up.

Why would you focus on the Pride club - afaik it was a grassroot initiative and there was little to no cost to the company. At the same time, there are many, many other questionable actions that actually cost Sabre money - two separate session with a psychologist on how great it is to work from the office, business run, Tauron Arena skybox is still going, etc. It's all smokescreen.

To add to this [put your preferred phobia]phobic topic - It cannot be a coincidence that layoffs have started just after creating "Sabre Polska Pride Inclusion Group"! ;⁠-⁠)

Cause that are the "real" issues companies are facing now! Sc--w the tech! Just slap a rainbow everywhere and you'll be fine. Please, don't get triggered to much, cause this is only an example of focusing on wrong things that are consuming our time and money.

It's like, well, fu-k them, we have "Best place to work" certificate, we have communities, let's fire bunch of people out of the blue, cause, you know, everyone is firing anyways so no one will ask what was fu---d up. And then let's collect fat bonus for saving the company and achieving positive cash flow ;⁠-⁠)

What surprises me is the large number of xenophobic comments from both American and Polish individuals. Why do you feel the need to point fingers at those who “do wrong”? Are you all so flawless? It's such a way to not contribute to the tense atmosphere caused by the layoffs and instead add even more stupid comments that only reveal, while hiding behind anonymity, how racist and xenophobic you are. Great values? I think not! Guys, stop blaming others. Pull yourselves together.

I remember when KRK introduced DFW to SpringBoot! I’ve never seen so many people go into cardiac arrest due to simplification and reusable code! Security even tried to stop it going to production!! KRK was never the problem! It was people and processes (mostly TEO) refusing to adapt or recognize they were the problem.

@OP+1mwyoL1K @era+1mwyoL1K

This KRK bashing is non-sense. After these many rounds of lay-off ever since 2017 Sabre wasn't a safe-reliable place to work, leave the best. Good Polish talent had better options.
Was it KRK decision? to re-writing Next Gen Stuff in 2020 using 2014 tech stack of JAVA8 rather than using Go or Rust.
No.
In my 8 yr at Sabre hardly any of SEV1 or SEV2 were resolved in BLR.
Features developed at BLR took awfully long to be production ready.

KRK has never seen a new tool, package, or tech to pad their resumes that they did not like. Priorities in the wrong place. Keep It Simple Stupid does not mean being a dinosaur. It means being a pragmatist.

Don’t forget buying sh---y products like Radixx.

Lol ngp is the cloud thing just besides native it was also about being agnostic. Issue with ngp was that it was over engineered by Sabre and attempt to bend over cloud concepts to Sabre ways... There are zillion companies successfully using openshift / kubernwtes and it's principles.

But Sabre ofc had to reinvent the wheel to fit it into its outdated irritating ITIL principles in TEO.

Idea with ngp was good was fresh and easy to go it was just excuted poorly because of TEO. I am so happy i left Sabre long time ago...

Sabre is broken to the bones very stiff and deserves to die out of natural causes. Tech leadership stayed in prehistoric era still thinking they are doing some rocket science and only them know the secret sauce. Whereas many times wheels are reinvented and i would not say only in KRK but also in HQ if not especially

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