| Makes sense Cut out half of the worthless executive-level nitwits, then jettison all the lower level engineers working on Android who are less capable than the equivalent talent at Google. |
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| this should be good Before this google has had to work with a handset manufacturer. now they are one and i am really hoping they will come up with something far better than the moto handsets i used most recently and please for the love of god kill motoblur if it hasn't been already.
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| Good move, but Google isn't so great themselves Certainly a good move addressing those who have become complacent/non-innovative in their jobs, but Google should also look at reinventing itself when it comes to it's own butchered user interfaces for it's online apps and "single sign-on" (that isn't). |
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join:2001-07-14
Melmac | reply to boogi man
Re: this should be good They've actually calmed down the skinning quite a bit (at least with the new Atrix). The changes are minor and actually are helpful rather than detrimental. |
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| 40% of Vice Presidents? How can a company be so top heavy that 40% of Vice Presidents can be cut without disastrous results? Has Moto been THAT badly mismanaged? If that's the case, the cuts didn't go anywhere NEAR high enough! |
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Re: this should be good cool. it's honestly been a few years. my first droid phone was a moto cliq and it was hatefully bad. i bought it because or previous good experiences and that pretty much ended them for me.
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| ... Go Google! Make them to unlock the all bootloaders!
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| lost the initiative they had the initiative and then let others slide ahead with NO R&D / product cycle response.. good way to lose market share over the last 12-24 months! If apple can complete a product cycle in 12 months, then so better everyone else or consumers lose interest.
there are rockchip tablets that best the xoom tablet for less than half the price.. way to go... the next gen tablets better have 128gb ssd's oboard and sdxc card slot to reach the $500 price range.. |
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Re: 40% of Vice Presidents? The cable side had a lot of Directors when Motorola bought them 12 years ago.. when digital cable took off the top level employees kept demanding more money not to leave so in order to keep them on-board they start creating Director level positions for them. They actually have director level people there with no direct reports. Some of them were pushed up to VP and most of them are part of a bloated middle management with out of date skills. You could dump them without missing a deadline and keep a bunch of the people who would otherwise be laid off, but of course when you tell a group like that to cut costs, they protect their executive buddies and lay-off the struggling middle class people who really need the money. |
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iknowPremium
join:2012-03-25 | they got away from the core why they diversified like they did, instead of staying with what they have always done best from the start, i don't know, but that is the problem. they used to make excellent semiconductors and ICs and their radios were a standard, now, they are bankrupting themselves!. |
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| Motorola is one hilarious company I worked for them for a year! The toughest part was going through their stupid new hire training. They try to drill company loyalty into their employees by boring them to death with the same dogma that they themselves ignore. Its a hire-n-fire company. I am glad I left them before Chris had the chance to fire me. They have more bureaucracy than the government. The only thing that amazes me is that they are still around. The management is full of sleep-to-top type of women. If an engineer innovates his manager is sure to steal his idea and present in his name. Even pirates had more honor than the management of Motorola |
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Re: 40% of Vice Presidents? Thanks for the explanation and history lesson. Sounds like a lot of years of bad decisions being made at the top levels. The housecleaning might have to go much further upwards. |
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Re: they got away from the core said by iknow:why they diversified like they did, instead of staying with what they have always done best from the start, i don't know, but that is the problem. they used to make excellent semiconductors and ICs and their radios were a standard, now, they are bankrupting themselves!.
Yeah... they USED to make great radios. If you couldn't use it to call for help, you could beat someone over the head with it and then use it to call the meat wagon lol. |
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join:2002-03-02
Frederick, MD | reply to AnonFTW
Re: Makes sense I agree. This is an old company with a lot of 'fat' that can be cut. Hopefully Google can do a good job at turning this company around. I look forward to it! |
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| FAILED And yet Karl fails to mention that they're EXPANDING the jobs in China. |
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Re: 40% of Vice Presidents? What wasn't mentioned is that a large number of VPs had already been purged a couple of years ago or so. There were VPs that had no reports.
On the other hand, many of those "struggling middle class people" were/are lazier than shit. The company (at least at headquarters) turned into a ghost town by 4:30 in the evening. When I left at around 6:30 or 7:00, there were only a handful of cars left.
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Re: Motorola is one hilarious company Chris Galvin was really the one who hurt the company. His pet project, Iridium, was an abject failure and between the litigation and sale, Mot only got pennies on the dollar for it.
Also, what people here don't know or have forgotten is that Motorola waited far too long to transition from analog to digital. That was also a Chris Galvin failing. They stayed the TDMA course until it was disastrously late. They never really recovered. The Razr was just a short lived blip on the screen.
All of the above being said, back in the late 90s it was a great place to work. I still have at least half a dozen close friends from those days and never worked in a place that I enjoyed more. I miss the people. I don't miss the salary, the politics or the executive management.
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Re: 40% of Vice Presidents? said by Goober:What wasn't mentioned is that a large number of VPs had already been purged a couple of years ago or so. There were VPs that had no reports.
Sounds like a defense contractor I worked at years ago. Every relative of the CEO was a vice president... but we had a bottomless pit of money to draw from... the US Taxpayer. |
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1 edit | Yeah, I thought it was pretty amazing too. Everyone had hopes of being a VP at some point or other. After working there for a while, though, you realized that a large majority of promotions were based on favoritism and coddling up to the right person. The other path was getting hired in from the outside. They always brought people in at relatively high level compared to their peers who had been there or had grown with the company over time. I was one that came in as a lateral. My pay and grade was 2 levels higher than my peers with the same amount of experience.
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tcopePremium
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kudos:2 | AT&T If AT&T has bought Moto Mobility they would have added 10,000 jobs (just like buying T-mobile would have created jobs). |
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