Red Hat Layoffs, Even of "AI" Staff in India
An hour ago: ("last day" is technically true but hides what really goes on [1, 2])
Hours ago: Bluewashing Continues, Red Hat Onboarding Interns in Low-Paid Regions
Something happened at Red Hat yesterday. Insiders had speculated it would be layoffs and maybe it was. IBM is highly secretive about layoffs (no announcements, no WARN notices), so it may take a while for us to figure what happened, who was impacted etc.
Red Hat is not in good hands. People who used to work for Red Hat and were transitioned to IBM aren't happy (some pretend to, they're just sucking up to IBM and alienate their older colleagued by doing so).
Just 1 hour ago by an anonymous poster:
Having competent, talented non-technical leads is still important at a tech company. The issue is that IBM tends to promote people who are very good at marketing themselves, are friends with the manager, or who have been at the company for awhile -- as you can see, these aren't great qualities for a team lead to have.In my experience, my team leads were very insecure (constant layoffs will do that to you) and were intimidated by younger, more ambitious people. These team leads withheld resources or they would not set you up for success in some other way -- essentially making it very hard for you to succeed because they didn't want you to overshadow them. I actually had more help from teams outside of my own. Imagine that -- that you get more help from outside of your immediate department than your own team lead because they're insecure.
This rant says they don't give you what you need to succeed. At Red Hat, they tell workers to rely on slop instead of qualified colleagues. This is not about improving quality; it's an effort to cut costs.
Who will pay the highest price? Users or customers. Consider the state of Wayland; they ask users to accept excuses for things breaking or getting worse. Like they force-feed them broccoli.
On top of that, there's also nepotism. Mind this day-old comment:
This is how companies die. It's also a way to get high-calibre workers to resign in disgust. █