Easily a thousand people unable to log into many necessary things for 6 hours, yikes!

They will lose homes, cars and much more. Brace yourselves :(

New hires here will be retained for 3 years and then discarded afterward. The aim is to let them go cheaply without severance once the major work on the project is completed. This has been the new employee experience for a decade. @Job seekers... — read more 

When that doesn't work they will make it 6 days, desperate times :(

Who is responsible for bringing in and supporting Five 9? Why did they pick this tool?

LTI does not get paid if they don't reach certain metrics but NM would still reap gains from them so it would make business sense to have them fall just short, I wonder if they figured this out yet. I bet all the laid off testing people and their... — read more 

Unless we stop the cheap labor imports there will not be any jobs in the market. Current job market will only benefit do nothing management class, rating you based on no idea about the difficulty of our work! If we are able to get another job easily... — read more 

Over the past month I personally know of about a dozen layoffs and “involuntary retirements” taking place plus others in previous months. I’ve only been at NM a year and don’t know too many outside of my area and am wondering if there are a lot of... — read more 

the last i saw she was talking wherever she could both internally and externally about how amazing ai is. then gone.

Someone once said something about ARs family business. I asked for some more detail. Never saw any. Anybody care to elaborate? Or am I right this place just full of bottom feeding CN rated racist conspiracy nutjobs?

What did merit increases look like for everyone this year? Seems like they’re cutting costs everywhere they can.

They are constantly swapping out the more expensive ones with new ones at a fraction of the rate, it's incredible. Unfortunately the next iteration is even more unremarkable than the previous, and that is saying something

It’s time to rise up against Northwestern Mutual walking away from their DEI goals. They are added them to the do not buy list under https://thepeoplesunionusa.com. From what I hear their employee bonuses were the worst since 2007. There is a direct... — read more 

Is it ignorance of how bad others have it or gratitude knowing how well off they are compared to those having to find work in a truly apocalyptic employment market? I try to bring a positive attitude everywhere I go but I know many of you are... — read more 

DR, your legacy is now firmly established. Your pay-for-performance model has effectively moved NM out of the top 1000 companies to work for. Wishing you all the best, silver fox. Your most notable contribution remains installing Workday at your 20th... — read more 

I got an external offer from NM. And even after all the changes and lay offs the last two years it’s still hard to leave. Anyone else felt this or have left and found something better?

Oh wow, the VPN went down again yesterday—right when people were trying to work remotely. Incredible. After all the money we threw at ICS and J2C, you’d think we could at least count on our resources to function when it actually matters. But... — read more 

How much money do we spend on DEI at this company?

Are they that much cheaper? Sure many of them are hard working and talented people but I feel it is a bad look to the community and American customers to be employing so many, especially considering how horrific the white collar job market is... — read more 

Wondering where your bonuses went this year? Look no further than our illustrious home office business employees who get paid big bucks to then sign over TENS OF MILLIONS of dollars every year to consultants who basically teach them how to do their... — read more 

This will be the unofficial log of the state of NM testing capabilities and tools.No matter what made up metric DG and his cronies come up with to justify their latest boondoggle,this thread will provide transparent updates into the pipe dream that... — read more 

Been hearing around different orgs that more re-orgs are on the way but no timelines. Some are saying April, any truth to that?

Had my performance review and was told I didn’t get receive a highly because the quota of WM’s were met? This is a new thing, only be at NM for 4 years, I’m in tech.

I think our company is a straight up scam. These insurance policies and investments cr-p we do sc--ws over our clients.

Meta, Ford, McDonald's Walmart, John Deere, Harley-Davidson, Lowe's, Tractor Supply, State of Wisconsin, and many others have all cut their DEI programs. All eyes are now on Tim when he will slash DEI at NM. Tim needs to do the right thing and... — read more 

It seems that Bug Eyes’ (AA) relative (AR) is struggling with their initiative, J2C, which appears to be falling apart. Reports suggest internal conflicts among the leadership team, with efforts underway to conceal the reality from their new boss... — read more 

Townhall today = poor AV performance but we spend millions in improving infrastructure.

Is it s-xist when 16 out of 17 promotions in one department are from the same s-x? Is it s-xist when a certain gender is getting skip level promotions, despite not having the necessary experience? Not sure how a lawsuit hasn't been filled yet.

Anyone making over $300k?

So we know: CM had been traveling CM met CEOs of Dell and AWS CM has no clue about Anju JP the Data guy speaks just to speak ICS whiners grand standing by asking silly questions about costs when they are the actual waste Tech/Zoom... — read more 

Where SR is gone. Actually I did, I feel this resignation wasn't exactly voluntary.

likely will go down as one of the biggest mistakes in NM’s recent history. When nothing gets done and the chaos settles TC will be run out of the place so he can go back to managing the budget of the red lobster or ge or whatever other sc--w up he... — read more 

has anybody else heard this? wtf?

this time he hired mkinsey to tell him how to run an it org.the last time mkinsey did that apparently was a disaster. so lets do it again. apparently dg is not very happy about this.few people are. everybody knows this is just a way for cm to ki-l... — read more 

I was hired as a P2 two years ago and have been working at a P3 level for well over a year. I brought this up to my manager multiple times during our 1:1s, but all I ever got were vague responses like, “We’re working on it,” “Keep up the great work”... — read more 

the outside world is calling genai a massive waste of money but ag keeps trying to convince others the opposite is true so which is it?

Is that what everyone else took away from the recent survey?