- Microsoft is reportedly considering another round of layoffs next month.
- While the number of jobs at risk is unknown, reports suggest Microsoft will be cutting the number of managers in its employ.
- Low performing workers are also reportedly on the chopping block.
It’s not often discussed that Microsoft, Amazon, and other ‘very cool’ tech companies still practice this 80s firing the bottom 10% bull.. It has nothing with being a low performer, but everything to do with culling jobs indiscriminately and creating an in/out culture. Managers are forced to place employees into bottom performance slots, sometimes arbitrarily, so that teams/groups/departments fit the bell curve nicely. Then, people get fired, bonuses go out, and everything is peachy at the end of the fiscal yesr.
Let that stew for a few years and these behemoths are factories of pet projects and crunch culture. Your long-timers are either golden performers who’ve seen massive churn and project turbulance OR they’re climbers, willing to step on top of anyone or burn any project to climb the ladder or at least keep their spots.
Can confirm. Spent a few years at M$, almost got culled by the stacked ranking crap. I left before they could wreck my career.
Microsoft got rid of that in 2014 or so, when Nadella took over.
Explains well why all of their products are becoming shittier by the day.
Really happy I moved over to Linux.
At this rate we‘ll have fully automated companies going full slob by the end of the decade. Their customers? Probably also AI bots. If any.
Agentic AI bots “vibe coding” for other agentic AI bots, what could go wrong?
