#product

From product I see, adidas is about to pull the ki-l shot and eliminate Nike from performance running.

Not to mention legit running brands with top innovation ASICS, Brooks, Saucony with Hoka, New Balance and ON taking casual running.

Heard from a senior leader an announcement will be made next week. Products and roles changing. Anyone else heard anything?

When new vehicle covered by the free subscription service was stolen

This VP guy just travels to events, can't spell SQL if he wanted to and is so far disconnected from business but somehow keeps getting promoted and all he does is travel to all exotic destinations with zero value. Because of how useless he is, he's also hired a bunch of useless analysts who just add deadweight to product teams- I don't blame them as they lack direction and leadership. How does this VP guy still have a job?

Lot of management being moved to other products instead of laying them off. Wish they did the same to ICs who have real skills.

So is it officially gone or what? I’d rather be told it’s discontinued than be told it’s still waiting for approval.

Does anyone have any information about this new product in the pipeline I’ve been hearing about? Seems like it could help the stock price.

A former high-flying teammate recently moved into a commercial leader role for Proxxima. I'm not very familiar with the product or its business case - from what I can tell it's meant to be a polymeric replacement for rebar?
What kind of impact can a HiPo make in that business?

I write this as a user of QuickBooks, not as an employee. I'm an accountant. QuickBooks has been my lifeblood. Over the past 5 years, this software has been absolutely destroyed. What was simple has become complicated. What was efficient has become slow, clunky, and unresponsive. The A.I. features are an absolute joke, introducing so many errors that have to be manually fixed. The interface screen used to so intuitive, but is now a confusing mess. Function buttons that were on the front screen are now buried under 3 levels of menus. And glitches... now so many glitches. Transactions are lost. Saved items miraculously disappear. Many of my clients have experienced payroll tax issues.

You can tell the coding was outsourced to engineers in India. Total cr-p design.

Customer service is an absolute joke. Foreign people who can barely speak english reading canned responses from their "Intuit Customer Service Book".

This company is going down. They destroyed a great product. Outsource your engineering to a 3rd world country and you'll get 3rd world results.

The all aluminum, 90% recyclable Apple Mac Neo is going to give the Dell low and midrange PCs and Chromebooks a run for their money this year when it comes to the much sought after education market.

So it's a record quarter for Dell. Fiscal Numbers are good and all that. I keep hearing from both Glassdoor and here that there's so much wrong with ISG and CSG. Idrac su-ks. Power scale su-ks. Objectscale su-ks. Dell networking su-ks. Telco su-ks. Dell says EMC su-ks and EMC says Dell su-ks. This su-ks. That su-ks.

Now I completely get that gutting the employee count, not keeping up with the inflation does do some help with the fiscal position of the company where they can showcase more dollars, raise the stocks, etc. however I can't believe that that alone is a factor of a healthy fiscal quarter. There has to be genuinely good products that the company does produce to actually meet or exceed the expectations of the quarter right ?

So it's not technically a 100% trash company like some posts make it out to be ?

If it's not actually bad, then what areas does Dell do well, realistically speaking ? What are some actual positives ?

I'm not HR or Jeff or Michael. I'm just a regular I-7 in ISG, late 20s in age, trying to get some sliver of optimism in this mad world.

We can do tech layoffs, that’s fine. Tech is too bloated.
Unfortunately that’s not going to fix Nike.
We need some hot product and strong marketing. Until that happens, nothing even begins to get better.
Ugly shoes with ba--s on the bottom or Jordan’s with 3 soles are not going to cut the mustard.

Anyone concerned that the ELT is making decisions that are self serving and make no sense? Product is a calamity, decisions are absurd, and we need someone who has run a company beyond middle grade project.

https://cdn.f5.com/product/bugtracker/ID2137653.html

2,137,365 reported bugs/flaws/errors/failures with F5 products. The Execs have to be proud of the milestone when they went over the 2 million mark. Bugs fixed - just a fraction.

Is there a correlation between product support levels and layoffs? Example: Windows 2022 UFR II version 4 drivers for imageRUNNER advance. This is not available now?

I am in the OI product org, director level and was just let go.

CPO seems to just share LinkedIn articles on how AI is coming for our jobs instead of setting any actual strategy. This whole company is a mess.

Has anyone actually seen an LLM AI product in production here? Management is telling us we have to strive towards this. Who is asking for this? What do the customers think?

I’m hearing the 23rd. Lots of Product. No more information. Good luck to all.

Anyone else get this mandate this week from their manager as a SWE? I dont understand how this is even possible or how it can sustain itself. I asked my manager if we have any ideas or plans for what any customer or user would want in an AI feature, he said no, but leadership wants to see AI, so we as engineers need to come up with something. ??? Isnt that products job?

The only "AI feature" we have made as a team in 3 years is an internal RAG chatbot that reads our docs. Some guy also added AI code review because management made him. Thats it. And no one uses any of it, ever.

So how are we gonna make a feature every quarter until the end of time? Eventually we will run out of places to cram it, even if these features go in smoothly (they wont). This place has gotten absolutely insane.

Netflix‘s product division has pink-slipped workers across middle management and admin divisions, Deadline has learned.

Sources familiar with the layoffs note they amount to several dozen, or less than 1% of the 6,000-employee division. The cuts are part of a reorganization, and no senior executives in the product division were let go.

https://deadline.com/2026/02/netflix-layoffs-product-division-1236717660/

Seriously!?

OpenText reverting back to just Content Server, when will serif font logo come back?

Other product lines are rounding error

It's a sh-t product with a sh-t interface and the legacy knowledge was shitcanned before the KT could be completed. Nobody in OT really knows how it works or how to support it.

What a joke, fido has ~91 different flavors of the same thing, what a clown camp! Is the marketing team wagging the investment management team or what holy shxt!

Hmmm, how many asset allocations can we make up....how about our next attempt to saturate the product market with the same thing is the stock allocations all have red prospectuses and the bond has white prospectuses and any cash has blue prospectuses, well will call it the Fidelity Red, White and Blue allocations.
"Bravo you are promoted"

Freedom Index
Freedom Blend
Freedom Fund
Freedom Retirement Index
Fidelity Sustainable Target Date

But Mr. Customer do you want us to do the same thing in a managed account and pay us a separate fee...

dahhhhhhhhh

Found out recently that the people writing the code behind PlantPAx have been laid off.

Were Dell at CES this year? I've watched a few YT vids about CES and Dell featured in exactly zero. I know JC made some speech about effing up but no product vids.

What is the status of CoreAdvance? It was announced last July and was supposed to be released by now. Are any banks actually running it?

Long time iPhone user but will have to leave because no longer can get a phone with Touch ID. Such a shame. I cannot use a phone with a front camera. I always cover it - as everyone should. Please bring the iphone Se back!!

https://www.netrise.io/xiot-security-blog/when-the-secure-stack-isnt-so-secure-lessons-from-the-f5-incident

I was an employee of F5 for a number of years. Development of F5 products (especially BIG IP NEXT) suffered from a number of significant issues - the largest being ego. The architects and senior/principle developers could do no wrong. Because of their titles, they couldn't be questioned - they didn't have to explain their decisions.

If a test showed a problem, then the problem was that the test was written incorrectly. Go write it so that it passes.

The mindset of the majority of the engineers was coding for the golden path. Because of that it was easy pickings to find issues using the mindset of a hacker - do all those things that had not been protected against. Push and push hard. Three years at F5 were painful - BIG IP NEXT should never never have been released. My director ignored all of the data provided that it was not architected well, not designed well, and coding was an abomination.

BIG IP NEXTs short life is proof of this. It was good to see this article to confirm.

Alteryx’s so‑called “premier” support is a joke. We are forced to repeat version details for every ticket, then receive automated emails at 1 a.m. that never actually help—just delay the process. When we finally get a call, the representatives are brusque, dismissive, and vouching for a product they obviously don’t understand.

After investing hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for just a handful of inquiries, we’re treated like we’re on the wrong end of the telephone.

Alteryx, your support must stop treating us like a flaw in the system and start acting with genuine care and competence.

And this is not going to help. Apparently, these people are not aware that many police departments don’t even respond to vehicle thefts, you are told to come into the police department to make a report. Sounds like desperation to appear like there is a subscription product there, The News didn’t even put it behind the paywall:

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/business/autos/ford/2025/12/12/ford-uses-tech-cooperation-with-police-to-thwart-f-150-pickup-thieves/87732049007/

https://share.google/LSmQR8g5i7nTjPmMS

The investor said PepsiCo is being hurt by a "lack of strategic clarity." Do you agree?

https://share.google/ozB3fXLWDmuBn5x5r

Corporate teams just spin papers, PowerPoint and wage a lot of time in meetings
Look at all failed product launches, marketing initiatives, strategic bs, bad acquisitions.
Yet its regions who have to pay the price

Sounds like a leaner version of edX

Slightly off-topic but I thought it would be nice to take a trip down memory lane and find out what folks’ favorite Avaya products have been over the years. Whether that’s Infinity, Oceana, or a CS1000 I’d love to know!

A starter for ten; mine would be Communication Manager; I’m still yet to come across a better PBX out there with the same feature set and reliability. I’d also throw in (and bear with me on this one) Elite Multi Channel - I used to love working on it. EMC was simple but could handle calls, emails and SMS perfectly well for smaller companies; it was far less bloated than something like AACC.

Anyway, that’s me; would love to hear your two cents.

All this hype and push around AI has been going on for over a year now. What all do we have to show for it besides people posting that they did the AI dojo on LinkedIn, and some sloppy chat bot POC's that read internal documentation?

All this talk about agents and an AI future seems like a complete scam with no basis.