#product

Some major product line sales are being considered as the demand shifts towards the profitable and relatively low cost drone business. .
Electronic warfare, (avionics) is on the chopping block. No need to retool or retrain. Old sites like Clifton and Rochester will likely close in the coming year.

FKNG HILARIOUS!

The 10s of millions Dell spent on this "ODW" bs and the countless layoffs they did in order to fund it and THIS is what it looks like?

My minivvan has a similar interface and that was only 120k. Except it's not leggy af or clunky and doesn't take 5000 clicks to get where I want to go!

Morale is at all time low, teams are divided, some with connections travel to WDF and Palo Alto for All in on AI workshops and the rest become mere spectators of what’s next to come without any stake in decisions.

Joule for Work rebranding of Joule Studio was a big flop in the 2 demo sessions, not fit for Sapphire launch, buggy, slow and complicated like a typical SAP product. SAP has mastered the art of making simple things complicated and buying new companies to keep the revenue going.

This house of cards will fall soon and all the old investments will go bust from wdf oldies.

Love this model. Such a great brand name!

Do we not have the d-mbest Product Marketing group in all the world? That entire group should be fired / WFRd for this colossal embarrassment. They flushed millions / billions in brand equity down the toilet. So Stupid!!

I can’t even begin to tell you the amount of people that tell me that they don’t wear Nikes because they run to slim. And each time I just nod my head and say I agree. I do wonder how much more business we’d campfire by making a simple change like making our sizing more inclusive. My own family doesn’t even use my discount because they all have wide shoes and Nike doesn’t fit them😂

There’s low hanging fruit to be had all around, yet we overlook it to try to make these big statements that seemly haven’t landed in recent years.

Even no brand Chinese products on Amazon have better quality.

Interesting ELT announcement and interesting times ahead. Wow we’re really doing this ...

It's a perfect example of what's wrong with Apple, all they do is make these worthless cosmetic changes ( like this stupid liquid glass cr-p that makes it hard to read the screen) that add zero value or functionality for the user, all iOS 26 does is drain the battery faster. Time to switch to android.

But can we actually make some good product and get it to market in under 2 years?
Can we stop the embarrassing marketing blunders like the World Cup sleeve fu-k up and the Boston marathon disaster?
Operating costs will look better but sales don’t lie.
Hoping to be laid off as this place seems clueless as f and I’ve been here for 20 years.
Feeling for the folks laid off that will suffer.

Business is tanking. Products are not inspiring. Leaders are performative

Regardless of the reason (short squeeze, car sales volume, etc.) It's a bad look that hertz is at $7.00.
Coming soon Gillybean will brag about how strong Q1 results, but core rental is still under performing.
Product team got bounced from Sandipshit and now report to Dreary CIO. That means the legacy of nearly Ded Ned is gone.

The latest in bonkers, after many similar people decisions ... Global , and primary census based product and apps are going to shutdown/replaced by a substandard version of mobile and pc app being marketed internally by technology and engineering as the next big thing. Supposedly this was going to be launched in the end of 2025 but delays and incomplete knowhow across domains has pushed it back repeatedly. Even now, it's incomplete and does not match the previous solution, atleast from Product perspective. But they have let go of every SME and will just roll with whatever... Clients to start moving with competitors soon, botched up long established solution, dissolution imminent.

I've been at this company for ages, and I've worked with all kinds of different teams. Even besides the top C-suite folks, there are some total deadweight employees that really should get fired or transferred to another department — especially the ones that are in charge of all our core stuff. I already sent a long email to a handful of C-level execs and the new CEO calling out these bad apples. These je-ks are holding us back from building really good products.

…isn’t it time to eliminate Integrated Services and the wasted salaries of MA and CM, neither of whom have ever delivered anything of value to Ford?

Surest is a junk product and the division is run by imbeciles. The news I picked up on today is it's about to get hit

Any other teams having the same experience? This is nuts, I worked for a few large product orgs over last 2 decades and I've never seen it nuts like this. Oh well, maybe it's just my team, dont know.

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