Left there a few years ago after Apollo acquisition. Heard it’s gone down even more since. Is this still true? TC: $200K
Are they still around? What do they do?
Significantly worse. The attrition rate is sky high, the c-suite is a revolving door of cash grabs, and Apollo still steers the ship despite going public. There is this drum beat of “push the private cloud” as the high margin product while the engineering is largely geared towards the new multi-cloud management services. There are teams with multiple TPMs, competing scrum masters, and off shore Rackers with 3 managers they are somehow immediately under. At the same time there are teams without any project support and there are Rackers who have no lead or manager they can point to below director level. Every global meeting has the question of what they’re doing about attrition with the same “working on it” excuses for in progress solutions that never seem to get implemented before a new answer emerges and the old one is tucked under the bed. As for why anyone is still around, we have carte blanche to train in any technology no matter how tangential. I’ve collected cloud practitioner certifications from the big three, attended multiple online conferences, and even volunteered to sponsor my kid’s robotics team all on the company dime without burning PTO. I’ve heard more than a few devs openly discussing their freelance work on the side and at least one person is openly working two full time positions. So with the inmates having run of the asylum, Rackspace is somewhere between circling the drain and being a gigantic playground for the knowledge workers. TC: $148k
I don't know how it was before but people leave left and right and there's not much direction.
Do you know what would be TC for principal consultant role?
I was there from 2013-2017 when the fist layoffs happened. The company went from an amazing culture, a solid product, to be bought by Apollo and chopped down to pieces. Rackspace’s biggest Achilles heel was its leadership. We never had competent leaders who knew what they were doing, even back then. They just made anyone the CEO, never-mind if they had ever led a company in this capacity or had the talent for it. The only ask was for them to move to San Antonio. I mean, who wants to move to San Antonio? The only ones who did, were people looking to get a payday irrespective of how the company did. Once Apollo bought RAX, things truly went down the drain in terms of culture. It was all about carving out the successful bits and discarding the rest. That resulted in a much needed layoff. I too was middle management and it made sense to lay me off. There was literally NO work to do. I used to reach office at 9:30 and leave at 12:30. When people left the team, there was no backfill, so my team dwindled from 16 to 4. I was just lazy and stuck around. Eventually, I was laid off and they even paid me a good sum of money. Only the folks in the first layoff got a good chunk of cash, subsequent layoffs got nothing. I was able to find a job quickly after and I just remember RAX as a bad dream that paid the bills. I am so much happier at Indeed now.
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