#software

https://www.vice.com/en/article/is-halo-studios-heading-for-more-layoffs-new-xbox-leak-panics-microsoft-players/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3_PPdjD6mg

In the current "Wortwechsel" he is towing the line. 1-2% seems okay for him.

On the other hand he focuses on the importance of culture. "Growth culture" is, according to him, soooo important.

Am I the only one who sees a certain amount of contradiction here?

At least he apologizes for the "brutal" remark, the tooth brushing (both DA) and the statement "at least my job is secure" (SS). Something at least.

After each round of cuts I stopped doing something, whether it's the overtime or the extra polishing that used to matter to me. At first I fought to keep standards up, then I realized it was nothing but self punishment. Now I guard my time and try not to let the job eat me, and I make sure to do just a bit less after every round.

This time my manager was laid off. That useless, d-mb weasel of a man managed to avoid every layoff so far and was even close to a promotion when this happened. I admit, I did a happy dance. That man made the lives of his entire team miserable on a daily basis, and for once, literally for once, they actually got rid of the right person. So yes, I hate layoffs, but this one I kind of enjoyed.

I have long seen a strong resemblance between James Bond and our job as Account Executives. The mission is tough, failure can strike at any time, yet, like James, we rely on special skills and talent to survive. Mission after mission, year after year. And like James, we must be the best to still stand tall…even when facing death.
When I joined Oracle in 2005, I was threatened three times with being fired before turning 0% into 150% with a single deal. I was a Quota Achiever. An indescribable feeling. I survived. I was a hero.

That was my first Apps Win.

130 Apps Wins later, I am still a Quota Achiever, today at 170% achievement…but the excitement is gone. Management demands performance, and we deliver, year after year, pain after pain. But when performance is constant, why are we not allowed to grow?

Passion powers performance. Mission Impossible when there is no motivation. Even Ethan Hunt would agree.

To those who see my value and commitment for this company that I still love, I thank you deeply, it means the world. Soldiers should not be treated this way.
I am leaving today heart-broken, but I am leaving standing tall.

Team keep an eye out for a call after I find out how I’m getting paid where I tell you what business will close in the next four months. Perhaps Wednesday? No rush, we do this for fun right?

This quote angers me so much:

“It won’t be anything special,” Chief Financial Officer Dominik Asam told the German newspaper Handelsblatt, saying the annual job reductions are “like brushing your teeth.”

It shows arrogance and lack of empathy of the CFO. These cuts mean so much to everyone affected by them. And even to those not directly affected. It affects the community of SAP immensely.

Will the layoffs hit the GRC staff? I remember on May 2025 they announced the support will no longer be delivered to customers, so it switches on user’s responsibility. Is GRC employees included in layoffs plan?

If you need tax loss harvesting. Now's the time to sell Appian. I really don't see this stock going anywhere in 2026.

https://mynorthwest.com/kiro-opinion/harger-washington-recession/4139846

https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2025/10/01/smartsheet-layoffs-bellevue-mark-mader-sunny-gupta.html

RIF impacting North America-California. Unclear on other Global Regions.

layoffs are happening today

Optum Sh-t Show

A conservative guess:
10years$100,000annual salary30 developers=$30,000,000 salary investment

That is just a salary investment guess. No idea on the infrastructure investment(offices, hardware required pipeline software, etc)

For comparison. MVA which was a smashing success likely was way less of an investment.

Altho i hv no stats, i expect we produce more slides on a daily basis than we do lines of code that actually build us any sort of IP.

And what's depressing is that most of the slideware is just rehash, update, and repackaging of the same old cr-p.

I'm one of the thousands of slide jockey here, so the irony of this post isn't lost on me but hey, tomorrow is another new week in which I'll do the same old sh-t as I've for the past many years.

Why is every software project at this company a pile of custom spaghetti that some opinionated developer threw together without ever bothering to google other similar things people have built for reference? If it not that , it’s a wrapper of some kind with 1% of the features and they pretend they built it. Why does IT keep adding to the misery by imposing more nonstop migrations and more tickets to submit and more things breaking constantly imposing more worthless refactors? Why does no one seem to have heard of a software standard?

Is it just me? I mean I don’t blame people for quiet quitting around here. But can y'all do it a little quieter?

Yeah, we’re sc--wed.

Notified management has introduced a flop ticketing platform and for the past 2 years it's almost a chaos using it. Frankly speaking the work time has increased because of this platform. Simple tasks have become complicated. Hope the management trashes this time consuming worthless platform. Literally nobody speaks about this messy ticketing system.

A buddy of mine telling how much SAP relies on ServiceNow to provide ticketing, knowledge and AI solutions. What's the deal with this as I thought this was SAP's bread and butter stuff. I believe Flexera and Coveo are also needed?

Here we go again..

is this illegal? uhc uses vendor software from american companies. my team in india uses the software as a basis to build inhouse software. upper management at uhc (mostly american) and optum (mostly indian) migrate to the inhouse app and sunsets the vendor software.
i don't think it's a straight copy that's being done but the software is extremely similar.

This is the demonstration that an employee working for a conglomerate like this count less than nothing, it’s just a record in a database, no matter is performance, pretty sad and cold given the myriad of talented people. I hope someone at top level reads this, but Oracle is well known for being a stable company with less than average salaries. People genuinely made this trade off, if stability is not the case anymore then why staying in Oracle. I know this would count less than nothing, but a bit of transparency is somehow due to the hard work!

Bumping this up for visibility. OP: @bk+1k2xjqvcz

Because they’re cr—py?

https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k2rztnsw

"Oracle blood bath is happening big time starting from yesterday (8/and still going on as of today. Oracle Cloud (OCI), Netsuite, VB, Jet, My SQL and other areas majorly affected.
No official numbers yet but around 10%.
Affected across roles:

H1Bs and US citizens
Employees based in India and in the US
Employees at all levels up to SVP
Low performers and high performers
New joiners and employees with 20 years at Oracle
Engineers and Project Managers"

Now that it's January anyone have any updates on layoffs in the software engineering org in El Segundo?