Layoffs today. Managers found at 10am. They had no input
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Irene will answer the easiest questions. At least with the zoom meetings, people can post their questions in the zoom chat so everyone can see leadership didn't answer it. Like the question about steves daughter lol
Glassdoor it is then. Do you think they will address any of the feedback on the next townhall or will Irene join while smiling and waving again pretending this is still the best place to work.
@Press
You're better off submitting a glassdoor review, if your intention is to make issues known to the general public. I doubt the APP would legitimize any info coming from within iCIMS, plus I don't trust the press.
At least glassdoor has policies, I believe, that were put into place to protect your identity from malicious employers looking for revenge.
many times you can find shared logins for websites on bugmenot.com I have used this before for linkedin glassdoor logins to look at reviews without having to register may want to give it a shot
I get scared submitting a glassdoor review so I'm definitely not going to submit an anonymous tip lol
I think they based on people that were familiar with their future architecture. Spa/bff/spring. The went hard after test engineers. The business analysts, product managers, managers that were gone were mostly supporting projects that aren't in icims future
Obviously they included low performers too.
@Press
APP has a secure drop for anonymous tips to be submitted through USA Today SecureDrop -
https://www.app.com/story/news/investigations/2017/02/20/nj-news-tips/98172806/
https://newstips.usatoday.com/securedrop.html
Do not use your home network use public wi-fi make sure to use the Tails OS or Tor Browser at minimum to keep it anonymous -
https://tails.boum.org
https://www.torproject.org
They say it was “random.” From the leadership level, people who were let go didn’t automatically fall in line with the cult and challenged new leadership considering they didn’t yet understand the business.
There’s an article that talks about how Vista uses the ccat to cut people when times get tough https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/vista-ceo-testing/559148/
I wouldn’t be shocked if that factored in to it too.
“ Indeed, when Robert Smith describes his management philosophy, it sounds less like the foosball-and-free-snacks stereotype of software start-ups than something out of the dog-eat-dog corporate culture of old. Smith advises Vista managers to be constantly on the lookout for their worst performers. “Here’s how this works: Our ship goes down. We’re all in a lifeboat, and we’ve got 11 people on it.” He then pauses dramatically. “Who’s the first one you throw overboard? Who’s the second? Who’s the third?”
The test was probably used to decide who to throw overboard first..
made its way to reddit apparently
https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/g3xvw2/name_and_shame_icims/
It was always the plan. I hope someone calls them out on it. Does anyone know how those laid off were picked?
@ModishkaTotoForPrez
Yea that's what I was looking for. Thanks
@anon
The severance varies depending on tenure with the organization. More recent hires who were let go will be receiving the newly "doubled" minimum severance of two checks. Previously it was one check before leadership graciously "doubled" it. Some affected will see severances through May, June, July depending on time served.
Doubt here will be anything made public with details. Interestingly enough, this article was posted the day before the great purge https://njbmagazine.com/monthly-articles/icims-is-transforming-talent-acquisition/.
It would be amazing if Steve and leadership were blindsided with an APP article that mentioned the stuff in here.
Maybe I'm paranoid, but I would be too worried icims will sue APP and find out who sent the tip
Yes. They are trying desperately to cover it up. We were told not to mention it to customers in the services organization. I thought about anonymously reaching out to Asbury Park Press to discuss how this went down. They covered our office closing due to the pandemic so why not this?!
There's no press release or anything about layoffs. Are they seriously going to cover this up?
Did anyone hear what severance was? All I heard was they were paying health insurance for 6 months
"The previous week on the manager's meeting Steve was asking people to go around on camera and say they were fired up. In hindsight now, knowing he was gearing up to just blindly fire people makes me feel ill."
He's really a disgusting person
Yea. I didn't know I was safe until steves email and that was sent around 6. I heard someone in labs got the call around 5 which is messed up. Most of the other engineers I have talked to have said they are looking for new jobs once this is over. They are worried about outsourcing and they don't trust leadership at all
that zoom meeting was nice and i bow to no man
It was really disgusting what happened. It was definitely to target certain people.
LOL glad i got the f— out of dodge before this sh–show happened. It was either gonna be 2020 or 2021. Pandemic just gave vista folks the cover they needed.
I made that review. I made an update and added more so it has to be reviewed again lol
There was a really scathing glassdoor review that mentioned his daughter and that has disappeared
At least 6 people from the NY office were laid off:
4 from labs (2 integrations engineers, 1 analytics engineer, and 1 services engineer)
1 PM for analytics
1 Tech PM
Managers were not notified.
Sr. Director of Engineer was not notified
Emergency meeting was held beforehand but managers were explicitly told they were not going to be given insight into the details.
Company wide meeting was held next day via zoom. Steve (new CEO) was asked "with the newly implemented hiring freezes, will your daughter still be starting on Monday." The question went unanswered.
iCIMS: Transparency (when convenient)
About 15% of labs
Not sure. Ceo said 90 percent of company is still here. At least 40 people gone from labs
Any idea how many employees and over what departments?