Please share useful tips for safely navigating the upcoming 2023 layoffs. Also share YOE at Micron at the end of your reply
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The hard truth is this layoff will likely include those with no performance issues. Previous layoffs targeted older employees and forced those affected to sign a document stating they would not sue in order to receive the severance.
Laying off anyone is a bad look. You are just a number to this company and to most companies. The point made earlier earlier about including some new grads is that doing so will reduce the chances that older employees will file age discrimination lawsuits.
As someone who was laid off both as a new grad and later in life, both situations are unpleasant, so whining about how getting rid of a new hire is a bad look comes off as immature and tone deaf.
I'd have disagree on the laying off new hires/ new grads. That's unnecessary cruel given that they just moved and would be a bad look in general.
In my opinion there is nothing you can do now to affect if you get the axe with the exception of volunteering to be let go. Management has already decided what projects it expects to be profitable and the ones that aren't on their list will lose the most people.
If management is smart they will lay off some new grads and early career employees to reduce the risk of the older workers having any claims of age discrimination.
By the way, there was a small layoff in 2018 or 2019 that they kept very quiet. I only know about it because a few people from my group were affected.
YOE: 20
The time to worry about surviving was 6 months ago. I expect a bloodbath the first two weeks after the holiday slowdown. Some of you are just dead men walking, and it’s too late to change your fate.
YOE: 8
Last layoffs that was "officially" announced was in 2016 and that was under different management. Things have changed under Sanjay so no one really has a good idea of what to expect. If they stick to their word it's gonna be a 5% layoff since the other 5% is natural attrition.
Just in general, if you're working in projects that are important in the near future you're probably safe, new grads/ hires are probably safe, DRAM and NAND development engineers are probably mostly safe. If you're a recruiter, a smaller business side of things person, in a rotational program, an engineer in projects that are not working out, an older person that's underforming, and in smaller HR type roles, you're probably not the safest. If the layoffs are dragged around till the end of Q3 instead of a swift layoff then you better put in some overtime and kiss a-s since performance might be a big thing.
YOE: 7