Engineers are moving to Microsoft. Is this a good move or not?
https://about.att.com/story/2021/att_microsoft_azure.html
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@qxe+1bJQyFMq - so accurate. except that is 43 MOP reviews. 5 minutes to write a mop and 2 minutes to implement it but 200 hours of meetings to approve the change. makes sense but yet we don't know where the inefficiencies are located.
Best move that reduces cost to the business and helps the overall bottom line.
Not that it's possible, but would not recommend moving over to MS. Very good chance all but a few will be off MS payroll within 6 months. Rebadging T employees, then let the new company dump them, the new way around layoffs. What will T leadership think of next?
I imagine this is a case of T paying MS to take a lot of dead wood off their hands.
Within 1 year, all T designs and systems will be sunsetted, 90% of staff laid off, 10% retained to work on other projects.
It's a win-win.
If this is true, MS leadership needs their heads examined. Azure will never amount to a hill of beans. Hard to imagine MS would risk using Azure that will lead to failure, a failure of this magnitude could cause harm to MS's reputation. I can't see MS taking that much of a risk.
Anyone know how you can volunteer to get moved to MS with this? I'd rather spend one year there and take my chances at what they do to people transferred.
Especially since retirement benefits for us older folks are now non-existent and it doesn't make sense to hang around here.
Was this Donovan’s old team?
As slow it goes, the more money Microsoft will collect. Why would any vendor improve efficiency to cut their revenue? It is not like AT&T can go out and get another vendor since everything is sold to MS. This is sole sourced with no leverage whatsoever. This is another d-mb move, not the first and won't be the last.
I'm more concerned that the AT&T resources will pollute Azure. The clouds they built were expensive, unsuitable for 24x7 or variable workloads and poorly implemented. ECOMP was astronomically expensive, redundant to real cloud orchestration and barely functional. As to speed of implementation, see qze's excellent and "spot-on" comments.
Hard to believe ME would even consider this. In the end it Azure will be eliminated, MS will relegate the best path forward.
HAHA! MS is going to take one look at the garbage ATT Mobility Network...then throw it out the door, along w/the "engineers". Realize that ATT Mobility operates in an vacuum, w/20 to 30 yr old M&Ps. Take any blonde, aggie, pollock, etc joke...insert "ATT Mobility Engineer". There is a reason it takes months/years to get anything implemented in the Mobility space. You have thousands of incompetent employees, all backing-up each other. After 15 manager approvals, 25 MOPs, 37 MOP reviews, 15 meetings to schedule the actually change windows...an offshore person does some cutting/pasting from MOP, and a couple of keyclicks. Complete definition of insanity. Heads will roll, if MS really decides to take this on. On-the-other-hand, they might just throw it back at ATT and say, "good luck".