Anyone heard of the recent layoffs in Bing? Looks like Azure and 365 are not affected. Only Bing. All engineer positions. Does anyone know how many got layoff? #tech #microsoft #layoff
Keep hearing chatter about the layoffs that are happening at Bing. Any new rounds recently? Anyone have any information?
Will Msft lay off people in 2024 given that Bing failed to gain from OpenAI integration and Google is planning a massive ads layoff?
My teammates in WebXT were laid off today. The count is around 800 until now. As per Satya's email the layoffs will happen until March. Keeping this thread for help and resource. Role : SDE - I Team : WEbXt - Bing Tenure : 2 years City : Bellevue, USA #severance #layoff #microsoft #techlayoffs #...Read more
Were SWE in Bing and Azure impacted by layoff? How many were impacted? I am sorry for you. #software #layoffs
Yesterday I tried new Bing powered by chatGPT. I asked it about Google second layoff. It said Pichai hinted more cutting cost during an interview with some Indian tech news. Can you try it on your favorite chatGPT tool and see what it tells?
Hi there, I've got two offers 1) SWE at MS (Bing team) - this is an internal movement with no increase in TC - TC (1 year) - 30 LPA 2) SWE (L3) at Google (GCP) : TC (1 year) - 43 LPA I'm worried about the layoffs at google and wondering if this is the best move. Thoughts?
Meta: Second layoffs fud, metaverse is going to flop, tiktok eatching their lunch Alphabet: ChatGPT better than Bard, Bing will replace Google, layoffs without empathy Amazon: Pip factory, toxic culture, hell wlb Netflix: Subscribers decreasing, too many competitors fighting for contents Apple: ...Read more
Sorry folks, I’m moving to Bing. and Google you are no longer my favorite place to work. Reasons: 1. Layoffs 2. No innovation 3. Arrogant interviews 4. False pride 5. Lowballing in terms of offers 6. Other. Please add more in the comments TC: 300k Edit 1: So many non laidoff Googlers got offende...Read more
Previous microsoft experience of ~5 years; 2 years smaller company I have a contract offer on table at Microsoft- bing organization YOE ~8 masters in engineering and 6 years of PM $55/hr ~18 months ~110k/ year with two weeks of unpaid vacation. Been laid off for 6 months ; 6 more months of unemp...Read more
Trying to get a leg in TikTok as my Sales team in Bing Ads is suffering from huge layoffs. Please lend me a hand. Thanks so much in advance. #tiktok #referral #australia
From: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4606240-google-stock-the-strongest-tech-company-on-earth Three months ago, Google was under duress - ChatGPT hype flying high, Microsoft bluffing, internal layoffs. Ever since then it has orchestrated one of the greatest and shortest comeback story in tech his...Read more
My Bing Ads Sales team is currently in mayhem over huge layoffs and reorgs and my workload has doubled with no adjustments to pay, so I’m looking to get off this wild ride. Any Sales roles in an Australia-based tech company (or even a a global tech company that’s hiring in Australia) is welcome. T...Read more
What are people talking about in your company lounge? Here are the top five posts in the Microosft Lounge right now, sorted by “hot”. 1. Who Else is Afraid of Young Liberals? 2. Is Internally Promoted L65 a Death Trap for Suckers 3. My GF Broke Up with Me and Stay Home Making it Difficult to Patch...Read more
As interest rates rise, we are witnessing companies change course on many fronts. Turns out some of the virtuous behaviors during the pandemic were just secondary effects of Zero interest rate policy (cheap money). For example: -FAANG companies laid off all the extra employees they hired -MSFT fire...Read more
Media, LinkedIn influencers…just useless chatter. Shit on Bing one day, put it on a pedestal another day, shit on it the next day…tech media never ceases to prove its stupidity. I guess it gives them fodder for new page views as more layoffs are boring for them to report and not generating enough t...Read more
[11/14/2023 edit. Changing to reverse chronology due to lots of requests for this from users] - - - - - - - - - - [Update 32. March 2nd 2024] Keeping this update short. - Early signs and discussions point to merit increases coming back this year. - Hiring budgets continue to be approved and eve...Read more
The most attractive FAANG at the moment is Google. Now before you start saying things like Sundar is the worst CEO, GRAD sucks, layoffs, Bard errors, Gemini Woke, etc, remember that these are headline grabbers to generate clicks. Objective projected growth of capital and valuation is the only thing...Read more
Let's see the reasons why: 1. We now have the world's attention with ChatGpt 2. Having gotten access to the Chat experience in Bing, I can say the model is very good at answering wide range of queries with very personalized responses 3. Huge opportunity to monetize and more conversions this time ar...Read more