I don’t believe we have right leaders in IT.
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The Department of Justice has a rich history of prosecuting corporate kickback schemes. If you are serious, report it to the FBI and watch the sparks fly. Otherwise, you are either complicit or you are stretching the truth.
One of the TX ED seems to be very good at that. He is trying push wrong product in to company to get millions. he layoff serveral good us citizens employees and replaced several us citizen managers with Asians. Most of his team with H1Bs including managers.
2fcc....ding ding ding! I was asked to hire a person 'locally' to work with me to help with some analysis that needed to be done. I got 2 resumes and was told to pick. Both were from stateside Indians and I had to choose one. Don't get me wrong, the person we ended up hiring tried her very best to do that job, but it was a complete waste of time. I ended up putting them on newbie tasks and did the analysis myself.
No. We do not have the right leaders in IT. I know for a fact that managers are getting kickbacks from consulting firms to hire people with no real skills. It’s finally caught up with them in the Infosys outsourcing. I took the Infosys offer and am gladly looking forward to working 40 hours instead of my normal 60 covering for my corrupt manager.
Yeh, let's continue to get rid of the old timers and then see how those new projects the IT executives are so excited about completing work out. I'm amazed how our IT executives keep directing teams to hire a bunch of 'Indians' to complete work on these critical projects that don't know the first thing about what a circuit is versus access versus equipment versus a telephone number and how all of these things relate. They are constantly bugging us 'old timers' to try to figure out what the data is telling them. It is amazing to me how long it takes their team to resolve a single issue because they don't have one person on their team that knows anything about the business, telecom or the systems they are dealing with. They finally sit down with 'old timer' SMEs and they resolve 80% of it in one day. Talk about wasting time. I'm so done with dealing with short sighted management that feels like hiring newbies off the street is the best way to handle priority projects. I guess because they are cheap that seems to be the only qualification required.
Amazing how so many disparate voices in Verizon IT actually rate their immediate leadership quite favorably yet retain such disfavorable views towards high-level management above the Director level. Telling, isn't it? But despite recent events, I don't believe that this lack of faith is something new here. These are long-standing problems.
Amusingly, shedding more of the senior IT workforce might just improve an overall perception rating of senior management.
@WoOggue-atg wellput
There are few jokers under shanks .
ya think???
svs hit the nail on the head. The natural inclination towards nepotism has overloaded IT leadership, predominantly with people who were not born or raised in the US. The lack of US cultural awareness on their part has hurt VZ IT because of the decisions made by them. I have interacted with some of them who are exceptionally intelligent and adaptable. However, most of them, while still being very intelligent are like plow horses attempting to race in the Kentucky Derby when it comes to their ability to make good decisions in a predominantly US business. I pushed the button, but despite that, I believe VZ is one of the best companies I've worked for. My immediate leadership has been exceptional. This is the first company I have ever worked for that managed to regularly pay an annual bonus. ( I have to admit though that with the hours I have put in it seems like I have earned both the bonus and vacation time in terms of hours worked for hours paid.) The benefits package is also quite good. So in the end, even though I opted for the VSP, it has been a good ride here and I will earn my paycheck right up until the last day.
In our group only one person knows about a particular job/interface. So generally we are scrambling if we get an error when that person is not around(There is sever lack of documentation as people are always scrambling to put the next thing into prod). I wonder how it will be if multiple people leave
There are some great leaders in IT, but unfortunately they are at the lower ranks of manager, senior mangers and some directors. The ones above are arrogant, naive, rule by intimidation and are not as intelligent as they think they are. There is no diversity of people (literally) or ideas in IT. They have no idea how complicated this business is and how many problems they are about to face with the amount of subject matter expertise that is about to leave the company. Granted many of the problem IT faces was created by IT, but that is because we have no one with a vision of how to transition the business and systems along with it.
We know the SVPs. Who are the VPs going to be?
OP,
I think this is a flash of the blatantly obvious.
Too many leaders in IT and none worth anything.
Which is why I took the VSP.
No more IT leaders..all are just satisfying.shank...
They on the left?