Whole Cary office gone, just like that. Cold blooded.
Layoffs next Tuesday, I’m sure I’m done
I thought I’d be safe as part of QNX but we presold too many licenses so now we aren’t profitable enough for our org size. That’s what my manager says, could that be true? I don’t understand.
Bright future for Blackberry (or not)?
Not the freshest of news, but also no news since. Maybe it is too short of a time, but I am not optimistic that new CEO will make miracles. Problems go deep, no vision, no adaption to market and innovation... — read more
Dumped jobs to India
Blackberry just fired their entire office in Los Angeles, moved all jobs over to India. Zero machine learning going on here, zero innovation, zero improvements. Chen got bamboozled by Cylance exec team, which hid serious flaws in the product and... — read more
Hmmm - from today's earning statement
From today's earnings transcript..... Chen makes this statement. In particular, this quarter, we saw a number of customers move from Kaspersky – sorry, to CylancePROTECT. CylancePROTECT works very well in this context and its lightweight... — read more
Layoff has been on rolling basis, almost every week/month
not doing well of year over year revenue shrinking, few new customers and dwindling renewals. John Chen does not have idea increase sales, nonetheless is a good marketer, bragging about turnaround for many years. number of employees is only half of... — read more
Things are getting more grim
So, I am telling you will need to find sunshine somewhere else. This was bad.
Too busy looking for other jobs.
Mr. Chen thinks BB should focus on midrange? All successful phone mfgs now rethinking strategy with the mantra "No More Flagships". Seriously John? This will work as well as your going back to qwerty phone strategy.
Blackberry Job Cuts in Waterloo, Ontario and Florida (about 200 people - February 2016)
About 200 people were let go - things are not as bad as previous years but this year has started with a bang too