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There is no other earth to sell copies of Office to. Very hard to have growth there.
By that metric, Slack, Jira etc are finished because they don't sell to alien civilizations. The number of employees that need Office 365 accounts is always going to be more than the number that need a Figma, Salesforce or chatGPT account.
All you've pointed out is Wall Street's demand for eternal growth is untenable, as if we didn't already know that.
I wonder what does this mean for the "Everyone can code" movement (bootcamps, initiatives within Google and the like, government funding). They keep saying that you can get a high paying job if you do a 9 month course. When the best of the field are getting laid off, I wonder how long will the "Everyone can code" movement survive
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>Hard to say if BigHead style devs are being affected here. Annual review ratings aren't quite yet finalized They aren't yet finalized, but pretty damn close. Don't you think this probably plays into it? VPs were likely told 'put 6% of your engineers below 'meets expectations', and some VPs probably thought about it and said "actually we have a really weak division, i'd rather axe that, than taking a 6% haircut acros…
For a number of reasons. 1. This wasn't just entire divisions. I've seen massive cuts on some teams and ticky-tack cuts elsewhere. 2. This was clearly coordinated above the VP level and could not have been just individual unilateral decisions by VPs who saw specific grad numbers coming through. 3. I've seen people who were not low performers get fired in this ticky-tack manner. 4. Nobody on my team was fired, but I s…
Second, why take the PR hit and not just crank the PiP quota or something?
I wonder what does this mean for the "Everyone can code" movement (bootcamps, initiatives within Google and the like, government funding). They keep saying that you can get a high paying job if you do a 9 month course. When the best of the field are getting laid off, I wonder how long will the "Everyone can code" movement survive
That concept doesn't hold water. If everyone can code, it won't be a high paying skill. And soon, it will really be true that everyone can code. Schools are teaching computational thought as early as kindergarten, so the next generation is growing up with coding being a basic literacy skill. Of course, knowing how to code and being good at creating software are two different things. Just like knowing how to write and…
Maybe a better chant for town hall meetings would be "We're number 2! We're number 2!"...
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Microsoft has access to ALL corporate data of ALL companies (sharepoint, teams, outlook, office365). Remaining step is to link chatgpt to it and train automated agents.
They can't legally do that though for a vast swath of those companies due to various data-protection regs. They do already have several "train your own model"-style ChatGPT products available though.
I wonder what does this mean for the "Everyone can code" movement (bootcamps, initiatives within Google and the like, government funding). They keep saying that you can get a high paying job if you do a 9 month course. When the best of the field are getting laid off, I wonder how long will the "Everyone can code" movement survive
That concept doesn't hold water. If everyone can code, it won't be a high paying skill. And soon, it will really be true that everyone can code. Schools are teaching computational thought as early as kindergarten, so the next generation is growing up with coding being a basic literacy skill. Of course, knowing how to code and being good at creating software are two different things. Just like knowing how to write and…
meanwhile gen z have no concept of file browsers or the command line, they've only ever dealt in apps.
I wonder what does this mean for the "Everyone can code" movement (bootcamps, initiatives within Google and the like, government funding). They keep saying that you can get a high paying job if you do a 9 month course. When the best of the field are getting laid off, I wonder how long will the "Everyone can code" movement survive
That concept doesn't hold water. If everyone can code, it won't be a high paying skill. And soon, it will really be true that everyone can code. Schools are teaching computational thought as early as kindergarten, so the next generation is growing up with coding being a basic literacy skill. Of course, knowing how to code and being good at creating software are two different things. Just like knowing how to write and…
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By that metric, Slack, Jira etc are finished because they don't sell to alien civilizations. The number of employees that need Office 365 accounts is always going to be more than the number that need a Figma, Salesforce or chatGPT account.
And? All you've pointed out is Wall Street's demand for eternal growth is untenable, as if we didn't already know that.