#quality

Honestly, how many new bugs do you think Cisco will ship because of LLMs? Leadership seems to think it’s magic and makes everything faster. 😆

This furniture is very cheaply made and will not last long

They’re combining and eliminating some roles at the sites. Mainly in maintenance and quality from what I know. Maintenance planners is one.

Why are the hats given out such POSs? They are such low quality. Why even give them out? Why does no one wear theirs?

Let me run through the state of things. Talented staff are quitting. The ones who stay aren't keeping up with inflation. Some are getting let go anyway. Those of us left are doing triple duty. Clients feel the drop in quality and they're letting us know. Simple requests become week long projects. And to top it off, we've got contractors who don't know what they're doing and don't care to learn. A few are good. Most aren't. This is where we are.

Employees are in layoff scare times so they cannot make any good products. Better to stay away from it.

Has the Quality of Employees gone up, down or not changed?

Everybody knows it. Continuous layoffs. Plummeting stock price. Customers pulling Dell footprint. No innovation. No enterprise solution portfolio worh a sh-t. Quality hemoraging. Support on life support. Clueless leadership. No AI relevance. Just low-cost, low-margin cheap hardware, that's it. To be honest, that's all Dell really ever was.

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.

We’ve all seen the latest email: a hard push toward a few "preferred suppliers" (mostly the large Indian MNCs) and a mandate to move away from our niche partners.

Reading between the lines, this looks like a forced transition from FTEs to a contractor dominant model. But is there actually a strategy here, or is this just another way to cook the books?

A few things that don't add up:

The "Recycling" Loop: I’m hearing reports that these preferred vendors are just hiring back former colleagues and charging us a markup.

Quality vs. Cost: The feedback on these specific providers has been bottom-tier. Moving from specialized niche experts to "volume" contractors usually results in technical debt that costs more to fix later.

Compliance or Convenience? Is "inappropriate reporting" (or lack of transparency) from these big firms being ignored just because they make the balance sheet look "leaner" by reducing official headcount?

What’s the real "idea" behind this? Is it just about shifting liability and hitting a "variable cost" target for the next earnings call, or is there any long-term plan to maintain the quality of our output?

Curious to hear from others who have transitioned to these providers. Are you seeing a drop in quality, or is this "recycling" of old employees as widespread as it sounds?

Outsourcing sounds good on paper until you have to redo everything because it was done wrong. The cost of poor quality is way higher than the payroll savings. When will they learn this lesson?

Think about it, how many times can you reduce headcount before the quality of work starts to really suffers? They're boosting profits by slashing people, instead of improving the product or service. It's a very short sighted approach to business that'll bite us in the a-s.

Would be curious to see company wide numbers on this. Certain divisions have suffered under the low morale. There is little incentive to perform. It's only a matter of time for the rest. The C Suite does not care at all. When will their customers wake the f up?

We have had too many years to fix the company but nothing has changed only more bad decisions by management and quality/recall issues by engineers. I feel like we are going to be the next sears. I wonder which company will buy the new corporate buildings in Dearborn few years from now. Very sad story indeed. Thanks Farley and the rest of the executive leadership team for this…

All the top leaders, top contributors have mostly been kicked out or left, there is a real knowledge gap, quality issues, and continuous layoffs that's forcing basically leftover seasoned employees out. How will this company run ? How will it ever get its golden IPO ?? Who will buy Nielsen stocks ??

We all said outsourcing to Infosys was a huge mistake and the quality of work will drop drastically. And guess what? Just a few years later, Vanguard is now bringing back some of the outsourced jobs because what we were saying turned out to be true. Still not enough, but it's a start.

Just ripped my Honeywell thermostat off the wall. Dead on the coldest night of the year. Thanks for nothing

Any Updates on WellMed RA and Quality?

I work in Ford Credit / Lincoln Customer Service. You get a good picture of how poorly made these vehicles are listening to the customers. Vehicles sitting at dealers for months waiting on parts / engines, etc. while customer still making payments on the vehicles. Not enough loaner vehicles to go around in the process. Lots of buybacks if the dealer can do it depending on state limitations, etc.It is truly a mess. We do offer extensions but cannot do many at once on these vehicles. Customers going back to GM, etc. accounts getting paid off by GM and other dealers due to customers trading in due to so many recalls and problems.

Have you ever felt like a quality issue was overlooked? I’d love to hear your thoughts and experiences. What happened, and what are some ideas for addressing these issues?

To feature JF and BF. Broke Truck Mountain.

They will now be called Hallucinations

Already all toxic leaders and managers were asked to leave without any severance packages
All principal engineers were fate in hands of CEO now

Customers are switching to crowdstike products

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/lawsuit-claims-seattle-based-f5-overstated-cybersecurity-strength-before-revealing-major-breach/EVFK25KTSRDUXH5IXHL6JVZF3I/

I let my managers and directors know of the decline in quality for the last many years. And I was ignored.

I think we need to learn where and by whom these hinges were engineered. It's a HINGE, not rocket sceince. Does anyone know?
https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/ford-escapes-recalled-liftgate-hinge-issue

Layoff notification requirements: If a company lays off a U.S. worker within six months of filing a labor certification for a green card, it must notify potentially qualified U.S. workers. This requirement can make it difficult or impossible to proceed with foreign national sponsorship, as noted by Nilan Johnson Lewis PA.

--> Let’s Be Real: Managing Immigration Sponsorship Requirements During Company Layoffs

https://nilanjohnson.com/lets-be-real-managing-immigration-sponsorship-requirements-during-company-layoffs/

While Fiserv had laid off close to 10% of the Full Time employees, according to the above law, how can they "continue to Sponsor Green Cards and H1Bs" where Fiserv ferociously "proves" that no US Citizen is available to take that job and only an Indian with a fake resume and a purchased degree is the Perfect choice for that position.

My head hurts.. need a break until the mid term elections..

There is a major gap between Verizon’s international leadership and its US subscribers... For VZ to survive we should focus on America and completely stop offshoring to Europe and India. This got us nowhere and it's getting worse - we should focus on quality and stop this short term fixes that are causing chaos and rot.

until such time that the primary corporate emphasis of financial revenue quantity has changed to product quality.

That's pretty rich given they've kicked so many of deep experience employees to the curb since Hackett decided you didn't need any automotive experience to design and build vehicles. Fast forward, quality is in the tank and NOW they are seeking experience.
https://shorturl.at/w2xd5

Title speaks for itself. There have been some significant departures within Quality leadership recently. Anyone have any insights?

Hearing that both offshore and onshore have recently had process and controls integrity issues. On the onshore Eagleford shale appears galvanic corrosion and poorly designed kit is resulting in production deferment and significant retrofit costs.

Does chinook/cascade have operational challenges? How long will these assets be profitable?

Which makes me think a lot of people who actually know their stuff have been picked for layoffs. Never mind that it would be yet another self-own for the company.

Very worried about what’s going on. Since the new CTO joined many Head of XYZ have left. The culture feels worse. Product quality has dropped. More customers are leaving because of bad product quality. The CTO has also pushed out many. That is very serious.
The share price keeps falling. Do they know something we don’t? Is the CTO making things worse? Is this company in trouble? What does this mean for our jobs? Very worried.

Costs went down, but so did quality. Now we spend twice as long fixing mistakes that never used to happen. Figure that.

Quality appears to be suffering. Non-production level code is shipping.

Was QA and testing replaced with Copilot?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/microsoft_bug_keyboard_mouse/

Make sure you read this article.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/40-reasons-no-one-should-buy-a-ford-in-2025/ss-BB1r4Q2g?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=68f4e59f63e74e83b49953155ce56a61&ei=31#image=41

If you have been LOYAL to Nokia for the past 15+ years, even without a salary increase for several years, and have stayed with the company because you enjoy the work and want to see Nokia be successful, than Nokia should also be LOYAL to it's employees as well, by keeping the experienced employees employed since telecommunication network product(s) knowledge can't be gained within a few years, but takes years, if not decades to master it (if that's even possible). Once that experienced person is laid off (replaced by a much less knowledgeable person), it will be difficult for the company to make quality products to deliver to it's customers. It may be able to meet the deadline to deliver the product to the customer, but the quality of the product will suffer due to the lack of experienced knowledge. Hence, loss in Billions of dollars in revenue as we have seen in the past with loss of AT&T and Verizon. Will Nokia continue to make the same mistakes by putting quality last (by laying off the older experienced employees)?

Approximately 30 customer/customer reps are heading to Sav to discuss "quality issues" with MB and the crew somewhere around November 4-6. When you put lipstick on a pig for a long time, eventually it wears off... Get ready for a fun holiday season....

Judging from what people have been reporting, the better you were at your job, the more essential you were to a project, the more experienced and skilled, the higher your chances of being laid off. I guess quality is expensive. I just wonder where the breaking point is, when everything will finally fall apart, seemingly all at once.

Got a very angry provider call stating they got an approval letter for a member with wrong information, like Dx Code, several kids spellings and wrong service dates. Asked manager who confirmed they started to send out AI letters upon approval.