Am I Being Replaced?

Question

My employer has started a greenfield project with mostly outsourced talent which overlaps the product my team supports. Ours is a years old product with a lot of legacy, in country talent, yet supporting a lot of subtle business requirements too.The new effort looks like it could have easily been a value add to our product. Still new management seems to have imagined the greenfield product as a centerpiece, with everything else complementing it. Rumor has it there is a long way to go before it's ready for the full load and all clients. But company meetings include high praise any progress it makes.Scope of this new darling has also grown much closer to our wheelhouse, from about 20% overlap to 40%. Mid to long-term roadmaps have been sparse to nonexistent.Meanwhile our team has gradually reduced in size as talent has left and hasn't been fully backfilled. Despite a great year for SAAS profits my team's comp remains less competitive, and new management seems to prefer overseas engineering talent.Am I just paranoid or does it sound like some kind of corporate maneuvering?

kwdc · Accepted Answer

Pack your parachute. The ground is hard and it might be good to have something later to slow your descent. Even better is having choices about where to land. Creating the future is often better and easier than trying to predict it.Take appropriate action now.

phendrenad2 · Answer

> company meetings include high praise any progress it makesThat's usually a dead giveaway. They're celebrating how good they will look to their bosses when the new system cuts payroll by $.

Am I Being Replaced?

Pack your parachute. The ground is hard and it might be good to have something later to slow your descent. Even better is having choices about where to land. Creating the future is often better and easier than trying to predict it.
Take appropriate action now.

> company meetings include high praise any progress it makes
That's usually a dead giveaway. They're celebrating how good they will look to their bosses when the new system cuts payroll by $.