#engineering

No one that works hard and in good faith deserves to lose their job.
It’s an awful predicament to be placed in and I think these companies need to learn how to do business without massive financial success if fellow citizens are collateral damage.
I knew someone that worked at IBM and they were told years ago before the 80’s IBM would never lay off. They’d have engineers painting garages anything to keep from laying anyone off. I think it’s time for companies to bring back good faith and humanity.
It’s inhumane especially since there’s no real safety nets and life is more complicated and complex.
Do unto others…rather than the bottom line.

Vz india will now have Eng starting in small amount on wireless core. No security into consideration, while saving money on US Eng, they choose to sacrifise access to confidential database to be outside USA while Pentagon prohibited this many years ago.Get ready.

When was the last time you delivered anything on time, with fully developed features, that wasn't riddled with bugs?

Can you remember? I can't remember that far back.

When the dusts of current RIF and ReOrg settle, architects and the data scientists are the two most costly and counter-productive roles that needs the closest scrutinies.

The existence of those helicopter architects is the single inhibiting cohorts to an engineering driven culture. If the premise of those tenured architects is to guide the weak engineering teams, it’s not working and will never work (that’ why you don’t see the architect role in big tech such as Google and Meta):

• If you keep the architects away from the engineering team like it is today, their lack of current and hands-on knowledge, and their lack of affinity to the day-to-day work on the one hand, stretches a tension with their assumed authority on the other hand. We find ourselves wasting cycles and energy convincing and compromising with them on a good day and misled/delayed on the bad days. We consider those architects good if they stay away most of the time, reverse engineering by themselves or asking us to produce a few pretty diagrams from our finished products periodically, and don’t try to put their dirty fingerprints on everything we do.

If you pull those architects Gods down from the FAE heaven and embed them into the engineering teams, their unwillingness to do the dirty chores and their proud refusal to assimilate will create tension between themselves and rest of the team like oil and water. Neither party will be happy.

That leaves the only option which is to reduce the architect role dramatically if not demolish it altogether: (1) Keep only a few true architects in FAE who either (a) looks cross-functional for duplication and consolidation opportunities or (b) possesses niche knowledge and skills such as security, internationalization or accessibility. (2) Fire the rest or demote them to principal (or just give them the VP title) level IC and disperse them into individual engineering teams.

With the deadweight architects out of hand, we may start growing the engineering team and culture by trusting engineers with the architectural decisions in a collective fashion among the junior, senior, principle and tech leads of a team.

Now let’s turn our attention to data scientists. WARNING: they’re so much worse than the architects!

The complete AI ignorance of the upper managements makes themselves easy targets to the scammed by Fidelity’s fake data-scientists (compared with those who can build GPT):

• They’re paid at least one level higher than engineers yet what are they doing these days? Developing chatbots by calling vendor APIs or downloading models from HuggingFace. What entails in developing chatbots or the fancier agents? (1) Calling APIs, (2) developing the chat GUI and (3) Crafting LLM prompts. Well, software engineers are better calling APIs and developing GUI, and non-technical business domain experts are better at crafting LLM prompts. Both do a better job significantly cheaper. AI has been demoratized to a point where a high-school drop out may do a better job than an Ph.D. who don’t continuously learn.

Why don’t they train foundational LLMs that utilizes Fidelity’s private data, like Bloomberg, Captital One or Morgan Stanley? They can’t. The whole data scientists community from top to bottom are outdated. They’re stuck in the old traditional machine learning paradigms of regression, decision trees and scikitlearn. They haven’t or can’t learn the new AI paradigm which appeared on in 2017.

That leaves us with three options: (1) Fire majority of them to make room (2) Demote the remaining good data scientists to sort of higher level AI analysts who conduct experiments and compare vendor/HuggingFace models. (3) Hire true data scientist who are either experienced with or educated on the current paradigm of AI, that is those laid off from big techs and those fresh graduates who learned current paradigm of AI at school.

Architects and Data Scientists, the attic where all the dusts collect, need a desperate cleansing. With these two roles straighten up, Fidelity 2.0 may start!

How do you drop the best reservoir engineer in the US like that? Feels like a race to last after that move.

Has anyone returned to Intel after the layoff last year? How intensive is the interview process for engineers?
Consider reapplying to Intel because job market is tough

DXC does not spin up a truly new platform in 12–18 months, especially given their engineering capacity, budget constraints, and the leadership churn you’ve been tracking.

But here’s the real story:

OASIS is built on the same underlying lineage as Platform X — but DXC is deliberately avoiding saying that publicly.

I heard that Accenture doing a "survey" and may takeover GNT / Engineering soon. Anyone heard the same?

So far I’ve only seen directors and lead engineers get the invite. Guessing the Jr engineers are up next today or tomorrow?

ASML announced a reduction of 1,700 staff members. This action targets bureaucratic inefficiencies. The company seeks faster decision-making. It will create 1,400 new technical positions. This emphasizes a focus on core engineering.

https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/asml-layoffs-job-cuts-the-king-of-advanced-chip-making-machines-cuts-1700-jobs-in-major-shake-up-but-is-china-ready-to-lure-them-all-and-forge-its-own-asml-empire/amp_articleshow/130441501.cms

Rumors are floating around that more layoffs will be at HQ. Especially in Data, Strategy, PMO and Engineering

I really enjoy training my replacements. Can't wait to see our plants run by engineers half a world away. Another short-sighted idea by "double our profits" Darren.

I have dealt with many engineering projects were the underground copper was labeled abandoned or when aerial copper was abandoned but used to over lash fiber [fiber now owned by ATT]. If this company exits copper in 2029 [in 3 years], who will be responsible for removing all the abandoned plant? In the current market, it cost a huge amount of money to hire contractors, engineer out the plan, obtain the permits and remove. Cities are not going to allow Bell System facilities to exist on poles, in people's property, in alleys or on street corners rotting away. Will this be discussed in the Copper meeting? Cannot just walk away from this.

Just informed on an East market call that engineers will now be graded based on the time it takes to get tasks completed in Canvas…. Most of the delays are out of our hands with the tool not working 1/2 the time or vendors not getting their related tasks completed…. The people making these decisions have NO concept of what it takes to keep a network running and just want to stare at dashboards… I’m assuming this will now be used against us for reviews and future RIFs

Packaging moving to global logistics? Sourcing was a bad home for them. Why logistics?

im an engineer and i was let go in 2022
i was at nike for over 10 years, loved the campus, the people, everything, i still love nike
it was definitely stressful since i have a family
after 6-7 months after the layoff, i found a job, its at a start up,
the pay is less, but im 100% remote, theres no political drama and theres no wasted work.
i know its easy for me to say as im not facing what everyone is facing right now but i just want to say,
there is life outside of nike.
the market is sh-t right now, but there is work out there, contract roles, start ups, temporary roles
i wish everyone the best
good luck

Now you want to bleed us further with more cuts? That is our reward for literally working evenings and weekends for months?

trying to sanity check something.

I’m an engineer at Five9 and honestly I can’t tell if my team is just dysfunctional or if this is how things are across engineering.

In my team:

Communication is basically nonexistent. Half the time you don’t even know why decisions were made.
Priorities make zero sense. Everything is urgent until it suddenly isn’t, then something else becomes urgent. Also, the roadmap is always changing.
Managers don’t really seem to understand the technical side, which makes things worse.
Code quality is rough. No consistency, no standards, a lot of stuff just feels hacked together.
Documentation is almost zero, so you’re constantly guessing or reverse engineering things.
Architecture feels like it just “happened” over time instead of being designed.

It makes it really hard to do good work or build anything properly.

Genuinely curious: is this just my team or is this the general state of engineering here?

Would appreciate honest answers from people in other teams/orgs.

All in-house solutions, especially those in FPE, are no longer viable. Adoption solutions from the market is faster and allows the use of professional solutions, so adoption doesn't require as many engineers as building. Hence the reorg and layoffs.

Just look at Amazon. Their engineers are losing it because AI code is wrecking systems.

This organization looks very strange, I mean the domain merger and the fact that VPs report to VP. On top of that, there are strange creations like Tech Mod, a lot of in-house solutions and a lot of lazy engineering dinosaurs in various positions from Sr Dir to Engineer level, on the other hand, the huge layoffs can destsbilize engineering teams and stability of systems/infrastructure for Nike business.

Let’s be real about the state of the org right now. If KKR is actually looking to trim the fat and keep the talent that matters, they need to stop looking at the IC level and start looking at the middle-management layer.
VMware spent years handing out titles and raises like candy to keep people from jumping ship. Now, we’re stuck with a "Managerial Chimney" problem:
• Mini-Teams: We have Directors and Senior Managers overseeing teams of 5 people. That isn't a department; that's a huddle.
• The Messenger Class: Most of these middle managers have zero technical input. They aren't clearing roadblocks or architecting solutions; they are just human routers relaying info to VPs.
• Jira Policing: When these folks realized their roles were redundant, they pivoted to micromanaging Jira tickets just to look "busy" in the logs.
If cuts have to happen, it should be the people whose only contribution is "status updates." Down-level them to IC roles or let them go. The engineers actually building the product shouldn't be the ones on the chopping block while a Director of 5 people collects a check for being a glorified secretary.
Bottom line: Protect the talent, cut the bloat.

And don’t do “vibe coding”, your job is at risk”

none of them are regular software engineer positions :-(

Engineer here, first job out of school. I thought I was the luckiest when they offered me the position. Three years in and I have no idea what we're even doing. They've messed up from every angle you look at it, and the worst part is they're not even trying to make it better. It's like they can't decide between short-term savings at any cost or wanting to be a competitive company. And it feels like they've given up altogether.

Does this org perform well ? What exactly do they do ?

I see a hardware engineering team that's hiring and the base salary is wildly high. ( Near $200k )

From the COO's updated bio on the website:

"During this period of significant change, he was instrumental in modernizing the company’s operating model—most notably by securing strategic partnerships focused on technology modernization and AI-driven code conversion. These initiatives more than doubled Sabre’s engineering workforce, increased development velocity, and delivered greater efficiency and value to customers.'

You can't make it up.

(Well, apparently you can.)

Got a nice bump, remote engineer , ive seen loads of remote ppl paid over 200 and not enough work,hope the same in 2026,

ST and Q parterning up.
While NXP is becoming a « Management Company » instead of « Engineering Company »
Be prepared to see an acquisition of NXP soon by Q or someone else in 1-2 years

Haven’t seen anything remotely good. Can only imaging they will be impacted in the next round.

I am looking to begin my mech engineering career at L3Harris on Long Island (Amityville). I’ve seen conflicting views from this forum…Any advice or tips I should know?

I have a job alert set up for network engineering positions. This week and last week they’ve posted 4 or 5 in India. None in the US. Are they offshoring engineering???

Are useless at this company. I keep seeing the on this forum. Why can’t they be let go first?

Got laid off and looking for fpga positions

If so, whats the move

I just heared they let go of two more Engineers and one of the leaders. After having a good year last year...

Your time has come

3/3

15%

With AI coming, should engineers unionize? I believe upper management is going to continue to squeeze engineers and with knowledge worker tasks being transferred to AI agents... it makes the work of an engineer procedural rather than design. That's very much like factory work.

I don't see any other way to spread the wealth. The alternative feels like "to get squeezed".

Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/spotify-says-its-best-developers-havent-written-a-line-of-code-since-december-thanks-to-ai/

This is exactly what SAP is also aiming for. So when are the layoffs coming and will engineers be a part of that?

How hard will the layoffs affect headcounts in engineering?