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Got laid off from Microsoft yesterday with 10.000 people

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this is the post.

we were just cut off with 10000 people.

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Re: Got laid off from Microsoft yesterday with 10.000 people

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Sorry to hear about the layoffs there, and everywhere off.

> we were just cut off with 10000 people by random selection algorithm.

Can you (or anyone) elaborate on how that works? Someone wrote something that does "select empolyee_id from employees limit 10000 order by random" and that's who got laid off? It's a layoff lottery and the winners got laid off?

I don't know how layoffs at huge companies work, maybe that's how it works everywhere?

Re: Got laid off from Microsoft yesterday with 10.000 people

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Sorry to hear about the layoffs there, and everywhere off. > we were just cut off with 10000 people by random selection algorithm. Can you (or anyone) elaborate on how that works? Someone wrote something that does "select empolyee_id from employees limit 10000 order by random" and that's who got laid off? It's a layoff lottery and the winners got laid off? I don't know how layoffs at huge companies work, maybe that's…

Probably a mix of getting the “lowest performing” people based upon yearly performance reviews, and then just randomly cutting people based on employee id. Maybe cut a specific amount of people from each department/organization.

Re: Got laid off from Microsoft yesterday with 10.000 people

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Sorry to hear about the layoffs there, and everywhere off. > we were just cut off with 10000 people by random selection algorithm. Can you (or anyone) elaborate on how that works? Someone wrote something that does "select empolyee_id from employees limit 10000 order by random" and that's who got laid off? It's a layoff lottery and the winners got laid off? I don't know how layoffs at huge companies work, maybe that's…

This was the speculation, I am sure they would have constraints like, fire recently joined people, or those ones who were not promoted last X years, etc. etc. I was hired last year, so it makes a bit sense for me.
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