Too many bosses, redundant layers of management, decision making paralysis - what can you expect? Layoffs will continue forever here, really I do not see any bright future and will be moving on on my own... Good times are over, you can save that free lunch for someone else - anything that has to do with Cloud technologies is very weak and this will take a tool on all of us...
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As opposed to pregnant males?
Pregnant employees are susceptible to layoffs as everyone else as long as the company can prove they weren't laid off because of the pregnancy. Heck, you can get laid off while on FMLA leave.
Of course, consult with your favorite labor lawyer.
Any idea what policy they have with pregnant females when laying off ?
What is it with all of these countless overlay positions? (architects, specialists, etc)
These these guys will these guys get whacked too?
NetApp's biggest personnel problem is that it has at least 4 layers of unnecessary management in most departments. Too many kingdom builders, not enough people to build a competitive, agile business. At a company of ~12-13000 employees, there should not be 9 layers between an individual contributor and the CEO - that's a level of bureaucracy that companies 10 times the size of NetApp have.
This is nothing new for us, we have cuts every year. It's almost impossible to get promoted and move up if you are in the support function. BTW, I hate my boss as she's a micromanager, but that's a separate issue now.