Based on the results from OFD divisions and that we continue to support the OFS trash I want to reverse the merger. I'm tired of bailing these clueless OFS teams out, we could have done so much better as OFD. The plandemic really brought the creme to the top and OFS sank like a t-rd.
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Could someone please tell me more about Jason Dewez and how he manages? I'm interested in why there is hiring now when there were layoffs before. Is it a case of new management getting rid of legacy to build in their own image or is there more to it?
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FREDO appears! Let me guess - card services? Has to be because your smart and can handle things.
Never could of out fought yapuki? Who ended up in the job tu-d?
Quite amusing seeing OFD and OFS bantering. Both companies were turds and now combined are just a bigger tu-d! Frank is a pi-p and never could have outfought Yabuki, but it wasn't until this day I knew it was Chiarello all along.
Funny that HR jokes about getting a job as a fast food worker, when Frank himself compared Fiserv to McDonald's at his phony meeting. Fiserv is indeed the McDonald's of the fintech world.
Say Hi to Jeff and all the former OFS 'engineers' that work at TB for us! Oh wait, they are constantly trolling this board so we can just say Hi ourselves.
Whoa
Dont hate on Taco Bell. You guys can bi--h about OFD OFS all day i dont care but insult TB and thats crossing a line. Im about to go get a quesadilla and baja blast, sh-t is on point son.
Wow, the new security management is saying not my problem after doing a hostile takeover two years ago of all security groups. Sorry to say, you own the security org now, especially after rearranging things, dropping ba--s and not giving a clear direction in the security organization, it is just your fault and no one elses.
Additionally, pigeon holing all of the security engineers into remedial Jr level work. You should ask yourself why all the security engineers are saying 'F' this micromanagement bullsh1t and leaving. I mean you can't even keep semi-qualified security engineers for more than a month after hiring them. Maybe this is the reason you have security issues, let alone a PCI program that is totally failing for the first time in almost 10 years. I mean it is PCI.
Small correction, It isn't you expect people to work hard. It is, you expect people to mash keys when told to, and be a drone for the micro-management team. Management doesn't want to hear your ideas, thoughts or anything. It is not an environment that promotes innovation and collaboration. That is why people only give you the bare minimum, and why you have security issues.
Most of the people at the company, that you deem have out-dates skills know more about Agile, CI/CD, security and cloud architecture that you realize. You are tool blind on the high horse to see it or don't know how to utilize the talent. I personally found a new job making making 60% more with better benefits, i will be putting in my two week notice today and somewhere that is more innovative. I guess my out-dates skills and knowledge about proper CI/CD landed me a job in DevSecOps at a better Forture 200 company. I'll save that Fast Food job for some poor Jr level engineer that has a special title his buddy gave him without the skills to back it up.
Enough with the chubby security blogger, you've pushed that stupid thing thru so many posts on this board its pathetic. That whole thing came out of the OFS side anyway and had nothing to do with the current executive leadership team, except that they thought OFS had their house in order. OFD is running the show now so expect to work hard or get out of the way. Just because your out-dated skills are being pushed out isn't our fault. Go find a job that you are more suited to, lots of fast food places are desperate.
If there's one thing I've learned, it's that OFD is hopelessly incompetent at security practices. Unfortunately leadership is very much of the "just follow along or you're out" mentality. OFD likes to purchase subpar tooling and then treat it as gospel (further backed by incompetent "auditors") and slam it down everyone's throats. I'm confident that all of this will be blown wide open by a certain security blog in the near future.
That is rich, I’ve seen 4 teams at OFD do the job of 1 OFS team with half the people. If the OFD management group would have taken the efficient models from the OFS teams had to create because they had a lack of funding. The OFD group had an opportunity to build the teams out properly and address the lack of funding issues for upgrades. Instead, they rushed in, removed all the management structures and injected themselves in with their sh---y culture and ignored all the people that knew how changes would affect the environment. There was no strategy, it was just a hostile takeover, which any change agent / executive coach knows is a stupid idea.
Almost the entire John’s Creek engineering groups and all the security groups turned over in two years on both the OFS and OFD side. All that knowledge left the company, and that is the true loss to the company. That should tell you how much people love working with the new management groups.
If you want to get pigeon holed and turned into a monkey ba----g on the keys. You are not given the freedom to be creative and innovative here. The management group doesn’t care about your ideas. They just want you to work inside your box and bang the keys.
If you want to grow and expand. Move away from this place until they get better benefits, pay, and will actually take care of their employee’s.
Those OFS folks been milking that mainframe knowledge for way too long
I came from OFS. OFS had its problems. OFD has its own set of different problems. While some parts of the businesses overlapped, OFS had thousands of products that need modernization and in some cases merged with complimentary products (see the credit union group for an example). Ultimately they are two different businesses. Now the OFD model is being applied to OFS which doesn’t work like it did in OFD.
No doubt about it OFD won the merger but the people left at OFD at the time of the merger, Frank had already broken. OFS was already used to poor raises, little to no bonuses and rare promotions. Now what little OFS had (work phones, flexible work arrangements, non-micromanaging managers) OFD is doing away with. Not to mention you can’t use your corporate card without a C-level approval. All these benefits OFS had is what kept the good people there. All that will be left is the broken people that just accept working for a leadership team that doesn’t care about them.
I am not going to predict how this will turn out. I don’t think anyone can. I will be watching from the sidelines.
Again, you people are slow. Who won, who ended up in the leadership roles. Who ended up in cr-p places like defi solutions. OFS was a-s. OFD are the pros
Seriously, the OFD teams were a bunch of clueless ragtag micromanagers that didn't know anything; other than, how to enforce their cookie cutter playbook from the 90's and force people to come into the office. They kept taking down the data centers for months with their new software and fancy gadgets that didn't integrate well into anything. It was like watching a bunch of OFD wind up monkey's clanging symbols because they couldn't figure out why the playbook wasn't working. The best part was that they let people go to keep their buddies in positions they wern't qualified for, and that amplied the wind up monkey symdrom.
Maybe you should take a closer look at how much attrition has happened to cause the tu-d to sink, or the lack of skills that OFD engineers actually have to manage and maintain it. You don't pay the industry rate for properly educated engineers and just adding a title to someone's name doesn't make them good at what they do.
I met an OFD Principal Architect, and he was the equilivant of a Jr. Engineer. I met Jason Dewez and i don't know how he got to be in charge of the security group other then a buddy brought him in. He threw out all know security best practies and decided to write his own playbook for security call the four pillars. It is a disaster waiting to happen.
FD would have gone belly up w/o FS. FD was a bloated ,debt ladened, underperforming failure.
OFD divisions growing at double digit pace while the OFS divisions are dragging the company down with low single digit returns...And you blame OFD and Frank for these short comings? That is why OFD gets bonuses and merit increases while OFS gets the shaft! Show your value and Frank will share the results.
Agree with the English critique. Horrible sentence construction and no use of comma at all, so this is FD a work? Hmmm, guess the FServ comments in reply show smart minds and a knowledge of the language.
Go back to 9th grade English class you bloke and learn to construct a sentence
Not micromanaging, performance accountability —-a fair days work for a fair days pay that is all you are owed.
Seriously?! FirstData was in the red. Fiserv saved the day only to end up in a bad state. Moral is down. Boys club operation. Employees don’t matter. Micromanaging.
Cool story. Saying plandemic is a sure-fire way to increase your credibility.
Truth is, First Data had a stock price of $31 when it was purchased by Fiserv. That makes you guys the Taco Bell of fintech and in no position to criticize anyone or anything.