Microsoft starts firing engineers

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Microsoft starts firing engineers

Microsoft Corp. plans to cut jobs in a number of engineering divisions on Wednesday, according to a person familiar with the matter, joining the ranks of technology giants that are scaling back as the industry prepares for a prolonged slump in demand.

The magnitude of the cuts couldn’t be learned, but the person, who asked not to be identified discussing confidential matters, said the reduction will be significantly larger than other rounds at Microsoft in the past year.

[Bloomberg]

 

[rvZA]

'Firing' sounds so.....

 

[Virex]

'Firing' sounds so.....

Journalistic and farming for clicks

 

[dualmeister]

Retrenching ...

 

[Kosmik]

Gotta be careful, I' sure there was a running joke a while ago that everyone in Microsoft was a engineer, including cleaning staff ( sanitation engineers ).

 

[rvZA]

Gotta be careful, I' sure there was a running joke a while ago that everyone in Microsoft was a engineer, including cleaning staff ( sanitation engineers ).

Sounds like Eskom.

 

[borro]

 

[koeks525]

Gotta be careful, I' sure there was a running joke a while ago that everyone in Microsoft was a engineer, including cleaning staff ( sanitation engineers ).

Someone said it

It feels like a lot of roles have the word "engineer" slapped on them, when it is not necessary

 

[Romeo_RX]

'Firing' sounds so.....

You’d prefer ‘collapsing’ ?

 

[gregmcc]

fired != retrenched

 

[nivek]

But they have 70B to buy Activision

It's almost as if the "socialist" Satya would rather get his bonus than keep staff

They made record profits during the pandemic, they're still profitable now, but not profitable enough for Satya