Unidentified sources who spoke to BI claimed Microsoft would likely backfill the jobs cut this month, meaning there wouldn’t be much of a reduction in overall headcount. Microsoft confirmed this to be the case.
This sounds more like a mass firing than layoffs, but I guess that’s semantics.
This sounds like the Circuit City paradigm, which is to fire all your expensive experienced workers and try to fill their roles with fresh-faced grads or, more likely, H1B people from India at the absolute minimum pay scale.
Consumer side perhaps there is little desired innovation from MS, but most of their sales are enterprise and cloud, the last of which is a rapidly evolving market where talent can be put to good use.
This sounds more like a mass firing than layoffs, but I guess that’s semantics.
This sounds like the Circuit City paradigm, which is to fire all your expensive experienced workers and try to fill their roles with fresh-faced grads or, more likely, H1B people from India at the absolute minimum pay scale.
And we saw how that worked for Circuit City.
I wonder if that’s why Microsoft’s recent products are, you know, the way they are.
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To be fair Microsoft sells flushed out products and their only innovation is worthless, so they don’t really need talkent.
Consumer side perhaps there is little desired innovation from MS, but most of their sales are enterprise and cloud, the last of which is a rapidly evolving market where talent can be put to good use.