Agree! The numbers are nutso. On the 60K, < 5% will take the buyout so theyâre going to start firing people. Thatâs what you gotta juggle in your mind if youâre there now. Really hard. When the layoffs come, if they come for me â will the severance be as good as the buyout?
I can see engineering teams getting smaller. But there's a limit to how far you can reduce headcount before you start creating operational fragility. People aren't interchangeable units of productivity. Sometimes the person you eliminated was the only one who understood why a system was built that way in 2014. đ
The research on developer turnover backs this up. Tacit knowledge disappears, projects slow down, and the remaining teams inherit problems they may not even know exist.
I'd be curious how Microsoft is measuring that risk or if they even care.
The suddenness and scale of these personnel changes boggle my mind.
Agree! The numbers are nutso. On the 60K, < 5% will take the buyout so theyâre going to start firing people. Thatâs what you gotta juggle in your mind if youâre there now. Really hard. When the layoffs come, if they come for me â will the severance be as good as the buyout?
Tx for reading Frank!
I can see engineering teams getting smaller. But there's a limit to how far you can reduce headcount before you start creating operational fragility. People aren't interchangeable units of productivity. Sometimes the person you eliminated was the only one who understood why a system was built that way in 2014. đ
The research on developer turnover backs this up. Tacit knowledge disappears, projects slow down, and the remaining teams inherit problems they may not even know exist.
I'd be curious how Microsoft is measuring that risk or if they even care.
Happy Friday Andrew