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Well, note who is explicitly excluded from the buyout: "People working in the Software Group will not be allowed to join VSP, neither will folk with vice presi
by RougeFemme 13y ago
Well, note who is explicitly excluded from the buyout:
"People working in the Software Group will not be allowed to join VSP, neither will folk with vice president in their title, nor exec/ distinguished directors in engineering or employees in India or Singapore."
I don't know who's included in the Software Group, but it probably includes a lot of people like those who read HN.
I once worked for a company where buyouts were offered - we had seen the handwriting on the wall for quite a while. Engineers were excluded and I was an engineer. They came nowhere near their target buyout numbers and finally, grudgingly, offered buyouts to engineers. I took the buyout.
- wsc981 13y agoI wonder, does this mean software engineers are too valuable to let go so easily? Or would there be some other train of thought.
- friscobob 13y agoDell Software Group is made of the many of the recent software acquisitions (Quest, KACE, Boomi, etc.) The group includes everyone from the software engineering teams to the sales and marketing folks. I can't speak to why they aren't eligible for the program.
- dredmorbius 13y agoCould be that they're too valuable to pay to leave. Could be that the thought is that enough will want to leave regardless, without incentive. Paying severance generally includes some terms including non-disparagement, so not offering a sep could backfire if there's particularly juicy dirt to dish.
- hkmurakami 13y agoHonestly, the "don't have the stomach for the private era" sounds completely hollow to me. This just looks like a generic cull that tries to masquerade as something else.
- thought_alarm 13y agoDell has a software group?