Please list department/org, role, and how many of your team was let go.
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TSD&O - Engineering Customer Support team.
1 Sr. Manager
4 Managers
20 ICs of various titles.
50% of managers and ~30% of ICs for overall team. Biggest hits appear to be in Orlando and KS, but some also in TX and WA.
They're laying us off without even asking us to pass projects off to other engineers.
So many security holes in the systems, it's not even funny. Most knowledge is in the vendors hands, offshore.
Management is clueless. They're hiring more interns, really. 40% of my design team cut.
Area team - 2 Mgrs, 2 ICs
Most of the RF Managers that were cut were Legacy Sprint. Was it the same for you guys?
2 FOPs Managers
3 FOPs Techs
1 SWOPs Manager
1 SWOPs Tech
2 RF Engineers
1 Development Sr Manager
2 Development Managers
3 accept lesser roles
2 undecided on lesser roles. (Up to 7 days to decide)
Sad day indeed.
Kentucky
1 manager
2 RF engineers
1 field technician
NE LI Market - 2 FOPS, 3 SWOPS, 2 DEV, 1 RF
Switch Techs hit hard in my market.
NOC Transport
Northeast getting hammered today. All markets losing FOPS SWOPS RFE MANAGERS
Parsippany NTAC and NOC roles including technicians, engineers, and managers alike, got cut.
ATS Packet Core was hit.
RF = radio frequency engineers deals with T-Mobile spectrum
NOC = network operation center deals with large scale cell site outages etc
FOPS= field operations those who go troubleshoot cell sites locally
SWOPS = switch operations those who work in data centers and troubleshoot cell sites remotely
TSDO = other engineering groups that support various Network related activities
Guessing NOC: Network Operations Center, RF: Radio Frequency, FOPS: Field operations
All these are teams under Ulf...Chief Network officer...the team that operates the T-Mobile network
"Will someone please tell the rest of us not in these departments what RF, NOC, FOPS, SWOPS, and TSDO ALL STAND FOR"
RF = Radio frequency but they are the ones that plan out and maintain the actual utilization of spectrum and such.
NOC = Network Operations Center - level 1 support for many different groups (voice, packet core, IP, transport, RAN). Also known as NTAC
FOPS = Field operations - The techs that actually go out to cell towers
SWOPS = Switch operations - they run the switch facilities in each market
TSDO = Technology Services Delivery and Operations - The organization that was lead by David Walker before he "retired"
Will someone please tell the rest of us not in these departments what RF, NOC, FOPS, SWOPS, and TSDO ALL STAND FOR
THANKS
CH/ML fops getting hit
From what I have heard, most meeting/call invites have "Organizational Update" in the subject line.
What did your meeting invite say in the subject line? Was your access cut off before the meeting occurred?
MTS here...19 years of college down the drain.
20% of FOPS, 35% of SWOPS and RF reports are still coming in.
Market Site Development teams impacted today (West Coast).
FOPS, SWOPs, RF here so far.
NJ site dev
NJ fops
NY switch ops
All got calls today
3/4th if the eastern division of engineers just got cut
13 year NTAC engineer, looks like all NTAC lanes are getting hammered today, best of luck to ya.
Make that 3 from my team now.
TSDO. Network Engineer.
Two of the overnight folks from my team have already been informed at the end of their shift this morning. Ulf's org.
Market RF who got the email so far- which market?
NOC in Overland Park as well. Just heard a coworker got let go this morning.
Market rf engineer, NE region.
Remote. Unaware of the rest of the team so far
NOC in Parsippany getting invites.
Eastern time zone. 2 RF got invite.