Thread regarding Charles Schwab Corp. layoffs

IMO Windows and Linux platform. Probably under the same MD. Their counterparts on the patching teams have been bigger helps to my group over the years. Platform has never been a strong team and has only gotten worse.

Which Infra org is the worst? All MD has there nose in the air. My experience has been Networks being the worst and trying to get any help from Platform next.

Probably the usual vendors Infosys, Emphasis, and Wipro

if that this case then Schwab have to re-valuate the vendors

@zzox+1sLkGnEu
It's a mix of FTEs and contractors. Probably the usual vendors Infosys, Emphasis, and Wipro. They use tools from VMWare and Atlassian.

how incompetent the infrastructure org

What is percentage of offshore and Non-Shore?
Who vendors involved?

I almost got up and quit yesterday because of how incompetent the infrastructure org is. Please provide some level of stability. I get it that not everyone will work perfectly all the time but this is a joke.

re: Why Glint does not allow us to type this I do not know!

Same reason that Schwab no longer allows for anonymous feedback, leadership does not give a sh--e. They no longer value the opinion of low level people like us. This will result in the downfall of this once great company.

bump

Basher and his managers love spending money on tools that were never properly vetted before purchase. Every year, a new security tool would show up and one of the sec engs would be tasked with deploying and running it. All the problems would then show up and we'd be forced to keep trying to make something work that should have failed before the purchase order was paid. Gartner magic quadrant products and companies arent an excuse to not do your due dilligance. Lot of Basher's direct reports are getting paid to spend or waste money, then leave a mess for others every 2-3 years. SCS doesnt invest in areas that can actually help the org create standards. Have you ever recieved a Qualys report for vulns? SCS doesnt do anything to help and instead relies on STS teams or application teams to figure it out. TVM is a clown car and Basher driving with his green blockers on at night. To all the people that were laid off or found somthing better, you won. The rest of us have to endure seeing these people in person multiple days a week.

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“Basher has turned this company into a place where nobody wants to do anything outside of their daily work because if you try you get stonewalled”
Clearly, in his mind, STS serves at the request of SCS. In fact, if it weren’t for him and his organization, the entire company would implode. They’ve become self-crowned kings and we’re all peasants, too stupid to be trusted with technology.

No.

They are mostly legacy blue systems run by Tiny, Says and Basher, and they have been for years. The outages are the result of technical debt, poor management, absurd complications and hubris.

Don't believe?

How many years did Tiny refuse to allow tech debt to even be whispered? How much damage did the Visa to US Bank kids do? Delayed decisions, years of cloud-cloud-cloud while we mangled modernization, political in-fighting and laughable consulting expenses. None of that was on green.

Okay boomer. The reality is four out of five of the last outages have been because of former green employees. Then those green leaders go to the Tims and Bashars and say that it was blue that caused the issues, things would be better if you trust them to take over blue roles and push the blue out. They seem to be buying it. All of green should be jettisoned. They are all fighting to stay relevant and will do anything underhanded to stay employed

'Bashar has turned this company into a place where nobody wants to do anything outside of their daily work because if you try you get stonewalled'

Provide examples, otherwise I'm assuming you're full of sh--e. he's fully supported and funded numerous innovations if you pay attention. The biggest challenge is having huge backlogs and not enough people to spread the load. Relief has been coming slowly but that's not his fault, you need to look a few levels above him.

'Bashar has turned this company into a place where nobody wants to do anything outside of their daily work because if you try you get stonewalled'

Yep. Nothing like trying to innovate and improve, only to be told 'we already do this perfectly'. When you present facts, you are stonewalled. And suddenly you are treated to micromanagement and other forms of bullying.

Why Glint does not allow us to type this I do not know!

STS is truly run by a bunch of clueless maroons.

Then you have worked in tools team then.

It isn’t just Bashar. When everything is a crisis of our making with mountains of techdebt…

I don’t like supporting 4-5 versions of Linux either but when we’re forced (as part of that upgrade but not required by the OS) to switch to a completely different standard at the same time like a new AD domain that no one knows what to do with, with different uids and gids that aren’t backwards compatible with our existing NAS, jobs, scripts, etc, what do you expect?

STS is truly run by a bunch of clueless maroons.

Surprise dr-g testing all of STS Denver on a Monday would fix the problem

So you mean some or all people in STS take hard dr-g ?

Schwab is a chaotic mix of overcomplicated, over-complianced siloed teams where nobody communicates or has any relationships with any other group. Just about impossible to get work done, forget innovation

Bashar has turned this company into a place where nobody wants to do anything outside of their daily work because if you try you get stonewalled

Just to chime in: PHX is a mixed bag of people; some good ones, some real duds. Really depends upon the team. However, one truth be known: Denver is a cesspool of braindead, ineffective sloths. I have yet to interact with anyone of value from there. Not sure if it’s that they’re all stoners with fried brains or the lack of oxygen, but these people are a special bunch.

Does the website keep crashing on purpose

PHX is a joke,

Denver IT is nothing but , Legacy defending and innovation ki-ling places.
Go around the project which managed by Service company, they are managing for decade .
And time comes to retire this project same company try to migrate, which like asking "executioner to hang himself and expecting executioner will hang himself".

It is catch 22, so that reason you see decade old system still survive.

Surprise dr-g testing all of STS Denver on a Monday would fix the problem

IaaS has been a disaster under people like Matt Cook. Our provisioning tool that once had same day turnaround time has now eroded into a ticket based request system that can take weeks or worse. Operating systems that are end of life that cost the company millions in support costs a year are still available because he and his clueless SME and support team have no idea what they're doing. The SRE teams love supporting 4-5 versions of the same OS.

Who are the network and platform owners in Denver? Who is homophobic? Does supreme leader noodles know about it?

Agree. And, yes, we are better off. We could still have Dustbin, Hanz and Franz.