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Starbucks CTO resigned Monday amid tech revamp
- js373054 1y agoWhy dont they fix the coffee...
- magixx 1y agoI think at their scale it would be very difficult to provide a consistent and flavorful coffee. For better or worse they gained a large market based on dark roast coffee dessert drinks and moving to artisan coffee might just not be that profitable.
- ferrouswheel 1y agoFinally some leadership that knows forcing AI slop on their workforce is destroying people's sanity. (I've worked in machine learning for 20 years, AI has its place but CEOs don't understand what that place is)
- teg4n_ 1y agoIts place is in shit like recommendation algorithms and giving rewards and incentives to customers, not store operations. When will they learn :\
- ggfdh 1y ago> Starbucks’ February layoffs of 1,100 corporate employees hit the IT team particularly hard, a source familiar with the matter said Thursday. They said an outside contractor named Tata Consultancy Services, based in India, has been given an increasing role in Starbucks IT division.
- rchaud 1y agoWell, why not? IT is a cost center after all /s