Mass Layoffs at IBM's Kyndryl, Slop Won't Save Kyndryl
IBM's CEO believes he has found "open sesame" or some other magical combinations of words. Days ago we saw and pointed out he had paid some publishers to parrot his buzzword-dropping nonsense (at "Think"), or a soup of catchphrases that made absolutely no sense. To put it bluntly, he's trying to compensate for a lack of viable products; he's a liar.
As of hours ago, an IBM "AI Product Leader" (whatever that is!) is leaving:
A few hours later:
Attrition is very high at IBM. PIPs and quiet layoffs contribute to this. Those who can leave will leave (provided they have another job somewhere else, as the above person insinuates).
Last week we published: IBM Has a Long and Rich History of Showing Chatbots Bear No Business Prospects (From Jeopardy to Watson Healthcare and McDonalds)
Recent hours were spent talking about IBM's CEO failing with chatbots (like Windows crashing on Bill Epsteingate during a live demo):
As someone there says: "AskHR and AskIT are absolute jokes and seem to get worse with every iteration. I can't believe we tell the "Client Zero" story with a straight face." Another one asserts that "[a]nyone working on AskIT or AskIBM should be fired. Useless products by useless people. AskHR doesn't even know the difference between vacation days and sick time. Just trash."
IBM and Red Hat can't stop promoting everything as "hey hi". In Red Hat's case it became so grotesque that most of its blog posts promote slop, not GNU/Linux.
Has Kyndryl become the same? Riding the hype train?
This was some hours ago:
Official/original:
Now, after the stock collapsed again, "Kyndryl plans job cuts," according to Indian media.
Kyndryl is a "done deal". It's done. It's finished. The question is, how much time has IBM (mother ship) got left? █