Citrix seems to be rehiring lots of people previously laid off. Desperate times?
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It's true. I was asked to come back, but I have no interest in working there again. I am happy to be out. It was like 2 different companies. The one I joined was great the one I left was not very good.
With Dan Feller and Brian Madden on the pay roll all our problems are over. We will have customers fighting over our licenses.
Customers love blogs that reference the Simpsons and Pinball machines. Good times ahead.
How is this wretched company still around? You'd be better off as a garbageman. At least you'd have job security.
I would not say "people previously laid off" but: people for positions previously removed.
I have seen some persons who have been fired, after 10 or 15 years in the company. They were doing a great job, had a lot of experience and knowledge, were appreciated internally but also externally by partners and customers. Their position was eliminated. And then some months later, some new people were hired to do the exact same job. Not better, because it takes time to build experience. No their fault, but you cannot replace 10 years of experience in 6 months.
So all this is completely illogical. And I don't believe that the ones previously dismissed have been proposed to be hired again.
I have two explanations about that:
- Managers in complete panic did (still do?) suppress jobs that were necessary, just to content the hierarchy and save their own a-s. And save the yes-persons around them.
- Turnover: some new hires will accept a job, although they are unhappy with, because of a less than average salary, and also, yes, the 5-days in-office policy. And will quit after 6 or 12 months, with some experience and an added line on their CV.
Something sometimes mentioned, but not enough IMHO: this has completely destroyed the culture of the company, based on collaboration, mutual help and sharing knowledge. Now it's a toxic environment of individualistic servility and "every man for himself" values.
For any of the reqs that might be real, word is once any job applicants learn of the strict 5-days in-office policy, they lose the job applicant. The overlords just don't get it and will never learn.
@h0 The company only wants to milk existing customers, not to build to gain new ones.
Actually, word from the inside that the remaining good people are leaving in droves. Especially in sales.
I am back in FL after a 2 year stint in the klink
Red herrings. Ignore
Almost all of the reqs are offshore. The few US roles are not getting filled. Who in their right mind would join this company after a simple Google search. My guess is only unemployed H1Bs looking for anything to stay in the US.
Ghost jobs. It’s the trend