I work in support, based in Dublin and I'm in one of the pools of people that has been flagged as "at risk". Basically one person from this pool will be culled and all people in the pool are at the same level/grade. Does anyone have any thoughts or insight into what criteria will be used to select people for this? Length of service, salary, last review score, star sign!...
Best wishes to anyone from other regions that have got bad news already, your feedback would really be appreciated!
In some depts in FTL it definitely had to do with teams being spread apart. A few teammates in Santa Barbara in Santa Clara got let go because of their location, they were told. Teams needed to be more focused and not spread across so many geographies. Also people who could be labeled "non-critical" or "dead weight" were let go were applicable. Basically Vps and later directors were told they had to let go X amount of people to save X amount of money and they made the cuts in a way that was supposed to be cost saving and strategic for their teams' future plans.
A lot of it comes down to your relationship with management, not just your line manager. If you've p*ssed them off, you're out. We're seeing it in our dept. (vindictive score-settling) meaning we've lost some good people who've been outspoken in the past, while some that really ought to be shown the door stay. Business reasons only play a part up to a certain point.
High paying jobs in the UK and US are being transitioned to low cost centers in India and China. It was all about saving money at the expense of product quality.
NA TRM here - based on what I've seen in our group it was a mix of performance and compensation (which often equals seniority) - that's why many people were surprised when we lost some really good folks - I was right in the middle of both (I think) and survived for now.
The pure fact is they cut the 'fat', stuff that can be move to cheaper 'low cost' development centers and the high priced employees they did could not promote.
End of day... Citrix laid off a lot of good people and it will bit them in the coming days, months and years.
I predict Citrix will be acquired in 12-18 months.
My gut feeling (the emphasis is on the "GUT"), is that they were going after higher paid resources. So, that implies more tenure as well. So, all things being equal, if they have 2 resources in a spot they want to trim, and one of them has to go, the person with higher pay would get cut. That's not what management saying, but that's what I am concluding based on what I know I my group and what I read here.