Outsider here (though at another big tech). When do you guys usually get your annual raises? How large did you expect the raises to be? What about promo cases?

158 layoffs announced on the Washington state WARN site as of yesterday for Redmond, don't know about any others yet.

Microsoft-owned LinkedIn fires 716 employees in fresh round of layoffs Microsoft-owned professional networking platform LinkedIn is set to lay off 716 employees, or about 3.5% of its staff, and close down its China-focused job application... — read more 

Portugal is not the only area with layoffs. There were more cuts yesterday here as well (CXP) and there are more cuts expected company-wide both in May and June. Just in case somebody erroneously thought or hoped we were done with layoffs for the... — read more 

English translation (media in US/UK ignoring this) http://techrights.org/2023/05/08/microsoft-portugal-layoffs/

Any layoffs happening in LATAM?

http://techrights.org/2023/04/25/office-space-microsoft/

Any info on this? Looking TC base + stock + bonus

What do you think will happen?

http://techrights.org/2023/04/24/wiki-layoffs-nz/

Chris Williams is a former VP of HR at Microsoft and podcaster, consultant, and TikTok creator. He explains that COVID made way for unprecedented opportunities for tech companies and many over-hired. Williams also says many of today's... — read more 

Can we agree that it's done?

Microsoft can have a union too. So what's stopping people? #solidarity https://alphabetworkersunion.org/

Laid off people is not finance strategy, the "savings" are very minimal at all, the lay offs are fear strategy, to put everyone in alert mode and make they work more to avoid be fired. The only time when layoffs will be cost-saving is when we... — read more 

Why the he-l do you get rid of somebody just to rehire them within months? It makes zero sense to me, especially from the financial perspective. But in any case, if you were laid off by Microsoft, apparently it's not a waste to try and reapply... — read more 

Microsoft is rapidly shrinking while the media is paid to run a festival about “Hey Hi” (AI), distracting from what really goes on at the company http://techrights.org/2023/04/03/african-staff-laid-off-by-microsoft/

Can someone explain how come in high demand security division took a hit? Is this customer facing or engineerng/dev affected?

Tech layoffs: Microsoft-owned GitHub India fires over 140 engineers, say sources Microsoft-owned internet hosting service provider GitHub has eliminated 142 engineering roles across its India operations, people aware of the matter told Business... — read more 

The Washington state WARN site shows 559 new layoffs set for today which, so far, has also included other states but they don't update their state WARN sites. Good luck everybody!

Microsoft Israel is set to lay off dozens of employees as part of the global cutbacks in the company, Calcalist has learned. Microsoft announced in January that it is laying off 10,000 workers, but this will be the first time that cyber team members... — read more 

due to the slow down in Windows 10 sales that is related to personal computer sales drastically slowing. I am glad I decided to be a Plumber then learning how to Code mine.

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.