Microsoft layoff culture?

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Jan 31 45 Comments

Does Microsoft conduct stealth layoffs regularly? I noticed MSFT folks do not talk about layoffs much but if you look on Blind every now and then there is a layoff, I think sometime during the summer. Is it an annual thing like vmware?

Microsoft employees, how is the layoff culture at the company? Are SWEs usually safe? Does the company help you? Since MFST files PERM/I-140 pretty fast, does this not slow it down?

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#pip #layoff #fired #severance #terminated #deported

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TOP 45 Comments
  • eBay / Eng
    jfifgxuc

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    jfifgxuc
    Your hashtags are depressing, bruh
    Jan 31 4
    • IBM
      Qradar

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      Qradar
      IBM has coined the term resource action to make it less depressing (vs layoffs)

      internally people have been dehumanized and referred to as resources. Each employee gets a serial number, rather than employee ID.

      historically, resources are routinely disposed.
      Jan 31
    • Omg🤪 IBM way to goo
      Jan 31
  • Headstrong / Mgmt
    moon101

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    moon101
    #deported hun???
    Jan 31 4
    • New
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      They do but if finding sponsor, clearing interview, filing petition etc takes time.
      Jan 31
    • Headstrong / Mgmt
      moon101

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      moon101
      Dm me if you are in such condition I am hiring
      Feb 1
  • Google
    TonaldDump

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    TonaldDump
    The market has to be genuinely terrible for MSFT to even think of doing such a thing. There’s a reason why most people consider it to be a retirement home.
    Jan 31 8
  • Apple
    sweData

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    sweData
    If your issue is work VISA related then I would still pick Microsoft compared to Amazon though. My opinion
    Feb 1 2
  • Apple
    sertvn

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    sertvn
    Yes Microsoft does layoff quite frequently and yes PERM gets rejected for many because of that.

    Microsoft used to follow the infamous stack ranking for a number of years and was pretty much like current Amazon except its TCs were even smaller.
    But no one blew the whistle and somehow it managed to keep it secret from rest of the industry.
    So Microsoft is great at keeping things under wrap including these layoffs.
    For the peanuts they pay, working there and living in fear of layoff is not a life at all.
    Feb 2 2