Looking at some of the CA Leadership Development and HR leaders you see many LinkedIn posts and likes about interview skills, being prepared for change in jobs, ....
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A few folk in this thread should be submitting invoices to CBR :-)
CAWorld has always been a big event for CA and the larger marketing expenditure of the year. Contrarily to some of the comments made earlier it generates a lot of business in the 3rd quarter of the company fiscal year and right before the 4thQ which is the largest on terms of revenue. The cancelation is not a surprise following the acquisition announcement. No CA executive would have wanted to face any customers that are questioning the future of their technologies investments. Unfortunately the future of CA Technologies is very grim, most of the core departments such as finance, marketing, HR, product marketing will see layoff up to 90% of the staff. Broadcom just want access to the large enterprises CA is doing business with (mainly the mainframe customer) everything else has no value. Some of the other business unit will be sold as a unit. Make mo mistake about it, the CA Management team was preparing this for a long time and this was very well orchestrated...
On the inside, they are not telling the employees ANYTHING. Nobody knows what they are planning. Hoping the merger is blocked by the government - if they even give a damn.
Does this mean I can’t put on the CA spandex and ride around with bike mike?
@V9ZMgcx-2rbm: do you think it will be a surprise. my evp has been very clear with us that they don't plan to keep 98% of the group. i don't think anyone in my support group will be surprised. communication has been very clear. i know of one other area though that is completely delusional and thinks they are are keeping everyone in the group of about 100 people. our prediction is they may keep 10 people in total. but we will see!?
It just got real This is not "business as usual" that's for sure. I'm just sitting waiting for the hammer to drop in November. I've talked to some people in support positions internally and their management is just telling them to keep there heads down and keep working, most internal CA support folks are delusional as to what is coming in November. It will be a mass layoff that will take most by surprise!
@V9ZMgcx-2you - I agree 100%. One difference. CA world created a "great" pipe line that never translated into $$$. "Great" because that is what we were told POST CA World... but come earnings we have to do constant currency tricks to color numbers a different shade of sh*t
I also remember the cracken with his cards. They are computer punch cards. I wonder what that old fart is up to these days. Spending his millions I'm sure. Oh my it is sad to think how easy it is to become filthy rich for some. Dumb luck I suppose.
People just don’t understand Broadcom is going to focus on a small group of customers that bring in big bucks. They don’t need a conference for that select group of accounts. CA world was an expensive event that in the end didn’t bring in revenue. Customers didn’t buy because they went to CA world. This is a very smart move on Broadcom part. Does Compuware do an annual event? BMC? This is an old model and one that was only used so the CEO could get on a stage and read from a giant tele-prompter. Sanjay was smart enough to remember his speeches never needed a tele-prompter. Even McCrcaken used cards, not a tele-prompter. No offense to the people that put this show on, but it was a giant waste of 20 plus million each year. Nice event but not necessary. To all the people complaining about this internally, get over it, you yourself have a 70 percent chance of being cut so what do you care if a customer has to rebook their personal trips. Could you imagine going to CA world a week after laying off thousands of people? That would not be a welcome event for customers.
Jakes 58 is hiring!
Chris O’Malley must be loving this.
Home Depot hires for the holidays. Good luck!
I don't know about you all but after cancelling the biggest annual company event, it just got even more real. We are totally fuccccckkkkkeeeedddd! There are other jobs out there eventually but no one hires around the holidays.
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A heavy blow to CA and all the customers they had... Better prepare for layoffs soon.
It was cancelled because everyone will be laid off before and they will not have people to work/volunteer in the event.
Also, why Hock will invest in something he will sell later?
I was at all CA Worlds from the first in 1995 all the way through the early 2010’s. Until the shareholders approved the merger they had to keep up appearances, but I’m sure it was clear to most there wouldn’t be one. I also doubt any customers would have actually paid any money at this point so the registration numbers would have been pitiful. No salespeople are selling new deals so it couldn’t have been used as a closing tool. No point...
This is huge. As a former, May recipient of my walking papers (and severance, thanks, CA!) i see this as an affirmation of the worst. As veterans know, this was super-huge @ CA. Having been to a few of these and remembering the impact they had on perception and pipeline, nothing could be worse. Hockey-T has some serious, diabolical plans for some of the BUs for sure. Why have an event where certain customers come in to see all new with IM, only to find out its getting blown up/sold/divested/forgotten, etc???
My suggestion to all current CA brothers and sisters, see top post and take that guys advice. START LOOKING and take what you can grab from Hockey-t
Confirmed, also saw this on Yammer
But it's business as usual.....
GDL Yammer
Where did you get this information?