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Because "number of expected working years left" is a factor in evaluating common law severance.
I can see if it would be exact years working at the place not years left.
I feel like paying your most experienced employees to quit is exactly the opposite of what Microsoft needs right now. Paying to get rid of your institutional knowledge and experience is an insane move, especially as everything is on fire.
The kid that started at 10 years old though, there for the whole 51 years: sorry, in another 9 years you will be eligible.
Hilarious that there is an algorithm.
Seeing a lot of layoffs lately in tech generally. My sense is that Corporate knows something that the rest of us do not. (Or at least that Wall Street does not.)
I feel like paying your most experienced employees to quit is exactly the opposite of what Microsoft needs right now. Paying to get rid of your institutional knowledge and experience is an insane move, especially as everything is on fire.
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How do you go about fixing the problem if you end up buying out all the people with the domain knowledge you were hoping to preserve? That's like burning all the treasure maps before you set sail.
Not saying a move like this won’t have any impact, but over emphasizing on domain knowledge is detrimental to engineering orgs. Some things will break, some things will be rediscovered by sinking more time, some things will be lost forever. But you also gain flexibility, fresh direction and the ability to move forward. When you work at a company for 20 years, you may be valuable when it comes to things that are done…
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Microsoft uses React Native in their Start menu because the kids don't know Windows programming anymore.
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It depends. Sometimes these buyouts are targeted towards groups that are toxic to the growth of the organization as a whole, like folks who have been around for a hot minute and have built up a cache of power but fail to use it other than for self-preservation or glory. I've worked in places where a handful of higher-ups nearing retirement block all progress because they refuse to learn anything new and are months or…
I wonder if Raymond Chen is still there :-(
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A job offer can be discriminatory, why not? "You were our only female candidate, so we're offering you the job"
Yes, that is exactly my point. "You were our only female employee, so we're offering you VR"