Little experience left at the company - Systems Engineer Avaya Employee Review

2.0
Apr 23, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

Good salary and benefits. A few good people left but the layoffs will get them too.

Cons

There have been massive layoffs and two enhanced separation packages. The target is staff with 20+ years of experience. The goal for the company is to get rid of staff with many years and replace them with staff in India. The company gets someone in India for about 25% of the US wages. Problem with this approach is that you can't replace experience. Now the work takes 4 times longer and is of less quality but the number crunchers like to see the employee expenses go down. Meanwhile there are about 100 VPs and countless executives still making the big bucks. I say get rid of Kennedy and all the execs and replace them with staff in India. Instead of paying Kennedy the millions in salary get someone in India for 25k. They can do just as good as least according to the logic of layoffs.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

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