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i'm just not going to think about the microsoft 60 kiloemployee "voluntary buyout" and its implications on the broader industry

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i don't even want to think about what interviews look like right now. it's not like my coding skills are in tip-top shape. i'm doing *awesome* crap for the company all the time, but it's mostly just a matter of having sysadmin, claude, and carte blanche

please let the direction vector be "no one wants shitty enterprise saas-ware anymore, they want vibe coders to do custom ones now" and not "sorry no jobs for u when you inevitably get laid off"

I think Microsoft very much tries to pretend they aren’t basically legacy enterprise slop, and to some extent that’s true, but a lot of the company is absolutely geared toward that kinda stuff when it doesn’t need to be imo

Having worked with both companies...yeah They try really hard not to be, but so much of the company is that same kind of "has-been consumer company that's mostly enterprise now" vibe that is most of what IBM is

i really do wonder what's the actual value of being Ginormous Tech Company in this coming age. like being that huge has advantages when software moved in months, but now that it's ~weeks, and people can catch up to you in ~weeks...

and the tech industry even in the US alone is huge, so let's say they actually want to cut 25k. it's not great but it's not nearly as bad as people always make it out to be. Amazon and others have already cut more people than that

fwiw what i've seen is that the internal expectation is that not that many employees are expected to take the buyout; they apparently did something else for a lot less employees earlier in the year and like 33% took it and they're expecting wayyyy less this go-around.

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