#culture

Ineffective. Politics. Curious what your experience is with a 300+ team of HR ‘professionals’?
What is it they do, let employees know to complete a survey and attend pro day?

The problem isn’t just one bad decision. It’s weak direction, poor follow through, and leadership that doesn’t inspire much confidence. Does anybody actually still see a future here?

I have heard from several people in the industry that Medtronic has become a known quantity. Candidates are turning down offers and recruiters are struggling to fill roles because everyone knows what it is like to work here.

I used to think that liking your job was a normal expectation, something that most people could reasonably hope for. After spending so much time in this place, I am genuinely not sure anymore. Is there an assumption that we are all just supposed to tolerate our work and find our fulfillment elsewhere, or am I actually supposed to enjoy what I do for eight hours a day?

I used to be the person who volunteered for extra assignments, who looked for ways to cut waste, who stayed late to get things across the finish line. Then I noticed that the people who did those things either burned out and left, or they got managed out by leaders who felt threatened by anyone who seemed too competent. Meanwhile, the people who just showed up, did exactly what they were told, and never rocked the boat were the ones who stuck around. This place doesn't want people who think or try. It wants people who nod and comply.

The only consistent message quarter to quarter is revenue declining faster than forecast. The stock price falling into the single digits says everything. If you’ve listened to this company’s analyst calls long enough you know management just pivots to whatever narrative works in the moment and they’re running out of narratives faster than revenue streams. Easily the worst management team this company has ever had.

Exactly what @aq+1kr2bpeh6 said.

He’s exactly the kind of person others have described. He posts our personal information on on Gemini, exaggerates his knowledge of tech and telecom, and then dismisses or talks down to people who actually know what they’re doing. He’s a sc-mmy person, and unfortunately more managers like him keep getting hired. If layoffs happen, people in positions like his should be first on the list. The CSSC needs a drastic change.

I had to laugh.

"AI produces gains where tasks are structured, feedback is quick, and performance is measurable. It does not magically fix bad management, muddled processes, or poor judgment. "

Sooo...who is going to tell Derek Flowers?

https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5892858-ai-workplace-divide-careers/

I'm watching this happen right now with a person on my team who got bumped up two levels in less than a year. On paper, he looked great, lots of years in the industry, confident in interviews, talked a big game about process improvement. In practice, he doesn't understand the basics of what we do, he's broken two different workflows because he changed things without asking, and the rest of us spend about five hours a week quietly undoing his mistakes. The person who promoted him clearly didn't do any real checking. Now the rest of us are paying for it, and the guy himself is clearly stressed and embarrassed. It's a failure at every level and it happens here constantly.

I’ve never worked at a company that changes course as much as this one, constantly chasing whichever way the wind happens to be blowing, whether politically or technologically. One minute it’s one strategy, the next it’s the complete opposite, like nobody even remembers what they were pushing six months ago.

That’s what makes all of this so hard. I actually like what I do. Watching what’s been happening here, and seeing a place that used to be great get systematically torn down piece by piece, really breaks my heart.

Has anybody here worked at AT&T? I might have a chance to make the switch, but reading through their page here makes it seem like I’d just be jumping from the frying pan into the fire. I’d really appreciate hearing from anyone with firsthand experience before I make the decision.

The unstable ship continues listing. Now Manifold is out, another leader thrown to the bin due to unacceptable conduct. No way to have a successful business with this many hands grabbing the wheel in such a short time.

We’re having faster turnover than the UK PM. Enough of this Euro lunacy, time to return our strength.

Management said that people are more productive at the office. Why would they start telling the truth now? Senior leaders are as trustworthy as a politician.

Schwab and Lone Tree didn't make the list. Hmmm...

https://www.denverpost.com/2026/05/13/top-workplaces-2026-flexible-workplaces/

With how often we have layoffs, all of us have two choices. Run ourselves into the ground and hope for the best, or just kiss up to our boss and call it job security. One is a gamble. The other is gross but effective. Pick your poison.

I remember having job security once upon a time. We switched to a constant threat of layoffs too easily. It bothers me how all of us just accept that this is normal, when it's anything but.

Actual, truthful reviews. Too many of them paint a picture that's anything but true, so I'm guessing HR is hard at work to fix the company's image. Take a few minutes and post a real review over there, so people who're considering Oracle know what they're getting themselves into.

You make contact with the hiring manager prior to the meeting and develop some rapport, identify some people in common, only to have an unlisted 3rd party join the Meet, who is inevitably some “distinguished” tw-t that throws curveball questions about things that were only discussed among the team in the last weekly meeting, and documented in a locked Google Doc. Indians hiring Indians.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-05-20/ceos-at-novo-nestle-push-work-cultures-into-results-mode

There is a massive gap in tech, telecom, and actual sales knowledge among the CSSC team leads. Instead of leading with real product expertise and honest solutions, they rely on manipulation and shady tactics to hit numbers, which completely trashes our company's reputation and customer trust. Their sheer ignorance about our industry is staggering.

Management constantly shows they don’t know the first thing about what we do, so they just make things up on the fly to cover up their lack of knowledge. For example, they clearly don’t even know the definition of the word empathy, so they just fake it by making up robotic, scripted lines that sound completely insincere to anyone listening. Out of pure ignorance, they will straight-up lie to customer service reps by feeding them entirely fake and false information about our products, claiming we have network features or hardware specs that are pure fiction, which leaves the reps totally blind when trying to help customers. They regularly feed reps fake details about product rollouts, forcing staff to pass along completely fabricated dates for products that don't even exist yet. On top of that, they lie to the reps about company policies and contract terms, meaning the frontline staff unknowingly pushes false product promises and looks incompetent because leadership doesn't actually understand the product line. And whenever management messes up internally, they lie to the reps and blame a fake "system glitch" or backend product outage to mask their own lack of technical understanding, using the company itself as a scapegoat instead of just being transparent.

This reliance on BS over actual competence is an embarrassment. It creates a toxic environment, ki-ls customer retention, and leaves the front-line staff to clean up the mess leadership leaves behind.

I’m a TL who is tired of this.

The constant layoffs, getting treated poorly, the “f* you attitude, acting like vipers, the politics, blaming all from management builds an incredibly toxic environment that we have become products of. When we push back and act short, direct and have the same “f” you attitude management needs to stop clutching your pearl necklaces. you built this, you made this environment. Do you not think we can’t get new jobs? We can, but not before we tell you to go “f” yourselves.

It might not stop there though. We are living in a very dangerous world and it’s important our managers watch their steps.

Remember - you made us.

My manager told me in front of my entire team that if I am so unhappy here, he has a replacement ready and I am free to leave. I was so stunned that I just said okay cool and went back to my desk. How out of line was that?

I have been calculating my commute time lately, and the numbers are depressing. I spend about ninety minutes in the car every day, which adds up to more than an entire workday each week just sitting in traffic. I am curious what everyone else's numbers look like. How much of your life have you lost to driving since we were forced back into the office?

Any word on if there’s going to go thru with in in New England? Should be soon, the higher ups are in for a surprise if they do. A lot of good talent will be leaving from what I hear..what a joke, let’s make this like 2005 and put these managers in the spotlight and talk about their cr-p numbers that we can easily look up. I can see director and above but individual managers !? Bye bye verizon for many if this happens

Meta's problems cant be solved by current leadership. Its time for Priscilla Chan to step down as CEO.

Most of us hold meta stock either directly or indirectly. This stock will go the way of cisco, ebay, yahoo if changes are not made and soon!

Nepotism has largely captured large swath of the company. Performance reviews no longer mater in those orgs. pip's are unheard of especially If you share the same ethnicity as your manager - you are often safer than safe. You enjoy large refreshes, fast easy promotions and high performance ratings. In this org, credit often belongs to someone else that cant speak your mother language.

For those not in the protected class. Wondering why they were let go despite exceeded expectations rating. You know why! Do you joke in the same language at lunch with your metamates ? This probably always felt off. You will never be in their tribe. You will never be one of them. Your manager can put you on pip and not think twice. Because you just don't feel like a team player -- because you can't joke with them at lunch.

Innovation is largely dead at meta. the company has been captured by a protected class due to nepotism of low performers that will never ever be pip'd. They are bleeding the company dry both of treasure and IP to give to mother country. Just simply running out the clock waiting for their green card in hopes the latter comes first.

I would rather just stay understaffed than keep watching new people come in, fail to learn a single thing, and leave after a few months. Every time I end up explaining the exact same things over and over, doing their work and mine, and then starting all over again when they quit.

Is SAP still a software company? CK opened with this question at Sapphire.

There are more and more reports of SAP moving away from creating software products. And CK wants SAP to become the largest private and public sector data store for Palantir. What is the strategy even?

And if AI is good enough to make decisions, why are we not replacing our executives with AI?

I foresee a giant push back from the public sector when they realize that SAP is simply looking to get acquired by Palantir.

Pay attention to these Middle Managers causing alot of these issues.....This is conservatively 30% of Fiserv issue. These manager don't even want to manage. It is for money or sponsorship. How is this fair to the reporting worker. I really no longer care but for the recent college graduates adapt and get creative. It will only get worse. Fiserv has some really really really really really really bad managers and they lie. The bad out weighs the good use to be the other way around.

What is it with these Delaware alumni and their entitled attitude? They sit in rooms dividing roles among themselves like it’s their private club, acting as if they’re better than everyone else.

That seemed to be the only qualification for people who were promoted. Not really anything other than their manager liked them and they were in the office.

There’s a strange tendency online and in workplaces for people to build entire narratives about others from very little actual information.

Not everyone who’s quiet is antisocial. Not every awkward interaction means something sinister. And not every rumor deserves to grow into a story people repeat as fact.

At some point, common sense and basic fairness should matter more than assumptions.

I’ve had a difficult year personally and professionally, and one thing I’ve learned is how damaging speculation can become when people stop communicating directly and start projecting motives onto others.

I’m not interested in drama, conflict, or relitigating anything publicly. I just think people should be more careful about assigning labels to others they don’t actually know, have never come into contact with and never met or spoken. Freaking ridiculous and inhumane.

A hidden camera was set up in the conference room, here’s how it went down.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/q8R5AhT4_uo

just realized it's the same guy who so proudly said he had chatgpt draft up a 6-year college admissions plan for his 11 year old child, down to which private school to go to lol

I have relatives visiting from out of state that wanted to see it, I was ready to take them down there for dinner until I saw this article. The family agrees it’s better to look at photos online.

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2026/05/22/detroit-band-cancels-all-shows-after-alleged-as--ult-at-corktown-bar-left-member-hospitalized/

Has anyone else had the experience of just not being able to cope with the persistent concerns of both not being able to keep up, plus the feeling that their own impending notice is a forgone conclusion, just waiting to happen?

Several months ago, I had so much anxiety, over my VP having an ongoing conniption fit over the set of metrics my team produced, not "aligning" to the "strategic message" being tried to "crafted", for an "incredibly important executive meeting"; that I worked myself up into such a panic, that I got in an automobile accident. I'm not saying the accident was 100% due to my state of paranoid stupidity at the time, but it was a major contributing factor.

My spouse ordered me to go to the doctor, and I broke down on how much of a mess I was psychologically. My spouse explained to the doctor, on how I was a completely different person than I was years ago. We went over life's issues, and framed out how I got here; and surprise, one of the biggest root cause issues was deemed to be my ongoing fear of being restructured.

The doctor placed me on several medications, several for anxiety, and several because since working my behind off for the past few years, my behind has grown to twice its original pre-Cisco size, due to a healthy diet of carbs and sugary Starbucks drinks.

I've been on these meds for several months, and am loosing weight. I feel much better, but to be completely honest; I know longer give a crud about this place. I don't like the people I work with, I really do not like my leadership. I don't know why I believed for a long time, that this was a fantastic place to work. It su-ks.

We have talked it over, and am going to try to stay as long as I can. It is refreshing to not care. Yes, I will do the work, be expect the bare minimum.

Sad because this company is being ruined by the greed of a small population of enabled executives, who just don't care to slice of whatever population of employees are needed to make their pockets fill up even faster, for the sake of the AI evolution.

If you don't like the message above, well aren't you just living with your head in the sand. Hopefully our paths won't cross, because I don't want to work with you, or worst, for you.

To reframe an old adage for the ongoing disasters being inflicted on our companies:
“We the unwilling, led by the uninformed, guided by the blind, are kept busy by those incapable of recognizing value-adding results.

Permian has become a place hipos have to punch their ticket. This means the rest of us no longer have opportunities for career advancement as the roles for higher CL are all being taken by hipos cycling in and out. If you are in operations forget ever being able to get that promotion. You deserve it and would do a better job than the clueless hipo but you will never get the job.