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‘I have never seen an org so topheavy with "decision makers" and strategists and advisors and so precious few people to do the actual work.’
[https://www.thelayoff.com/post/@oeq+1r9TiFER]
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“More like haphazard woefully incomplete.”
Like so many of the things?
@4lpm+1rcokCkB You think test automation is complete? More like haphazard woefully incomplete.
Ah, once a task, like test automation, is considered complete, then the workers can be let go. Devops must be done, then.
What applies to DevOps also applies to Testing.
How many of the 50 testers laid off six months ago were replaced?
It’s not like we DON’T NEED DEVOPS. Now they can hire twice as many DEVOPS people.
Doubtful this selective pruning is done? The only good thing is it points against there being mass layoff.
Who or which groups do you see next for the snip?
"BL and 2 of his direct reports: JS and KP."
Any word on why? These guys are all pretty well respected for their knowledge and abilities AFAIK.
BL and 2 of his direct reports: JS and KP.
"Below JP? Not many there? Care to name…initials?"
Yes, please.
We are NOT talking about Director NR, right? I thought that happened a week or more ago.
Others have referred to JP as the Televangelist.
Two senior managers and a director, all had been there 25+ years.
JP's org flattened out some yesterday.
In most of my years at SAS, the organization was not “top heavy”, but rather flat: there were fewer than eight levels between the rank and file and the owners. Many companies have more bureaucracy than that.
What was unusual about SAS was that so many people at those levels were “yes-men” and “yes-women”. If by “top heavy” you mean “useless”, then we agree.
“Strategists”? For most, their strategy was to do what they were told.
It’s the way SAS evolved as a consequence of being privately owned and having been THE dominant player in past generations of analytic software. SAS could be in much shape with fewer “strategists” and many more empowered highly competent engineers, appropriately skilled at all levels from R&D to consulting to pre-sales.
Many of the current “decision-makers” are like administrative government bureaucrats — mostly existing to support their own interest while working hard to ensure nothing calls their ultimate usefulness into question.
If people keep pulling my comments out of other threads and using them to create new discussion threads, I'm going to develop a complex. This is the second one this week.
It would be interesting if you could export the org chart and do some analysis on this.