Despite months of wide-sweeping job cuts across Silicon Valley, tech companies are still some of the best places to work in the world, according to recent research from Glassdoor. Glassdoor's annual "Best Places to Work" list, which was... — read more 

If your name is on the list, and your manager confirmed it, s/he just gave you the gift of time. Assume it's happening, don't waste any more time thinking about who should have gone first before you do, and start making your plans. Several... — read more 

Microsoft laid off its entire ethics and society team within the artificial intelligence organization as part of recent layoffs that affected 10,000 employees across the company, Platformer has learned... — read more 

Can someone tell me if Contractors and H1B' have to be layed-off first before any Microsoft directs get layed-off? In my group there are two Contractors and two H1B's. My Manager refuses to say if Contractors and H1B's get layed-off first.

Satya is as mean as Sundar!

I remember someone say something very stupid, regarding we can found Jon easily in some startup after lay off, well won't be more money for the start-ups: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/10/silicon-valley-bank-collapse-how-it-happened.html BTW: Most... — read more 

Thats 500 bucks

https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/latest-microsoft-layoff-wave-hits-supply-chain-cloud-iot-employees

Most mid-mgmt with less than 8 reportees are a direct target. Only discussion limited to VP & above us. Better be prepared!! India & USA teams in cloud !!

The plan has been made at GM and above level. Your manager even wouldn’t know.

Too many folks in India too!

Several managers have been laid off today. The rumor is that the focus is on consolidation at the manager level, any manager with less than 6 direct reports is at risk. Appears to also targeting managers that have been at Microsoft for many years.

It sure is nasty out there with no apparent letup in sight. I got layed off last summer. Been surving doing small construction jobs. Have sent out about 150 reumes. No call backs or emails yet. Pretty tough out there when you are a white male... — read more 

Be sincere, for real...

Gates could easily back his Climate change talk up by laying-off the thousands of Microsoft employees that work at the Microsoft Redmond Campus i. Washington state. Then to really back his talk, Gates could order the entire Redmond campus buildings... — read more 

When will the 10K layoff be done? Or is it already done and these are new set-of layoff? We keep hearing of more layoffs continuing, is it more than earlier announced 10K? What’s the deadline?

I think this is what we'll be seeing from now on. Constant layoffs in different geographical areas. I do believe that the U.S. is safe for now. We are among the easiest employees to lay off due to our laws so I think they cut whoever they wanted from... — read more 

I hope that the leadership does not think that layoffs alone will solve all the company's problems.

It's hard not to take layoffs personally. I will never again work long hours like I did here. I always tried to meet all goals despite being extremely overworked and in the end I get laid off. I'm frustrated because I think there isn't much logic... — read more 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-california-took-over-the-world-180981660/

What is the Microsoft Cross Solutions team and what are they responsible for.

Why Microsoft is at it they should take a hint from Meta and fire all midlevel useless Microsoft Managers that manage other useless Microsoft managers. Like hitting two buzzards with one stick.

The latest round impacted about 150 employees from a team responsible of convincing medium-size companies to adopt cloud services such as Azure server rentals and Microsoft 365 productivity... — read more 

The impact of Microsoft Corp.’s plan to lay off about 10,000 workers will reportedly be felt at LinkedIn. The Information reported Monday that LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned business- and employment-focused social network, laid off workers in its... — read more 

The days of the company cult following are over. Its a job, not a cult, not a way of life, and certainly not your family. Just move on to the next job. Forget all the feels good and warm fuzzy thoughts of drinking coco with BillG by the fireplace... — read more 

The next phase of Big Tech... https://novum.substack.com/i/101103540/big-tech-stagnation

Microsoft is targeting hardware divisions, like HoloLens, Surface, and Xbox divisions, as a part of the restructuring process. The company said it would lay off around 10,000... — read more 

Microsoft is not slowing down with layoffs, it seems. GitHub is the latest victim with ten percent of employees (that's anywhere between 300 and 400 if I'm not mistaken). That's a small number compared to the tens of thousands we've been hearing... — read more 

Details here: https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Datawatch/Mass-layoffs-at-U.S.-tech-giants-help-startups-secure-IT-talent

a bunch of v-dash people laid off in the North American M&O today, likely due to the very recent merging of the Canada/US M&Os

Welp another team gone today. The entire DSS training team let go. Lots of good people gone.

Long ago, I remember when hiring on to MS I was told: “You have a job for life if you want it. Microsoft has never laid off and never will. The company takes great pride in this fact and deservedly so has bragging rights. What makes this possible... — read more 

Take a look: https://twitter.com/Truthhu3011650/status/1623670466815877120/photo/1

Hi all, we received the email this morning that in Ireland they will cut 120 roles. It isn't certain that this is the final number.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is better! It never went... — read more 

See here: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/07/media/microsoft-outlook-outage/index.html

"And now, SEC filings show Microsoft is planning to lay off 10,000 employees by the end of the third... — read more 

The layoffs took place earlier this week and impacted employees across departments, including tech, sales and product FarEye CEO Kushal Nahata cited macroeconomic headwinds for the layoffs and said the reduction in staff was necessary to align... — read more 

“Controlling labor costs via periodic layoffs is like breathing for Silicon Valley: cyclical, necessary for life,” Malcolm Harris, author of the forthcoming book “Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism and the World,” told me. The layoffs... — read more