The Broken Microsoft Pact: Layoffs and Performance Management
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#2This was always a con for suckers. The only ways out are unions and employee-owned co-ops by changing the interests to ensure stability rather than merely being fooled by corporate masters who can always change the deal at any time.
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#3I never took implicit “they pay less but it’s more chill” culture stories seriously. You can classify certain job functions this way more readily than company wide cultures.
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#4I never took implicit “they pay less but it’s more chill” culture stories seriously. You can classify certain job functions this way more readily than company wide cultures.
Yeah, I was afraid of generalizing throughout the company. I think compared to other companies it seems to have a benefit of being more "nice". Maybe it's mostly targeted towards tech roles at that?
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#5> But something shifted.
The powers that be realized an anxiety riddle fearful workforce can get stuff done too just fine as long as they don’t have a better option and you dangle the occasional carrot.
So as long as all corporations move roughly in lockstep you can drastically change conditions without much consequences
It’s a bit like the first big news website implementing a paywall was outrageous and deemed suicide. But if everyone does it…
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#6Microsoft definitely does underpay the market significantly! Like 60% of what other companies of the same level pay, unless you're in the Copilot org. Maybe you'll get a little bit higher.
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#7Google had the same "no layoffs" vibe too, and they paid better. Turns out that everyone is willing to do layoffs.
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#8I’ve never worked at Microsoft, but the author’s three takeaways is how it’s always been for other companies.
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#9> But something shifted. The powers that be realized an anxiety riddle fearful workforce can get stuff done too just fine as long as they don’t have a better option and you dangle the occasional carrot. So as long as all corporations move roughly in lockstep you can drastically change conditions without much consequences It’s a bit like the first big news website implementing a paywall was outrageous and deemed suici…
Yeah, now they have AI, Artificial Insecurity
just another tool to push us to work more for less
It don't work, but you better learn it and use it, because it will replace you and also now you got to delivery 30% more
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#10I never took implicit “they pay less but it’s more chill” culture stories seriously. You can classify certain job functions this way more readily than company wide cultures.
Yeah, I was afraid of generalizing throughout the company. I think compared to other companies it seems to have a benefit of being more "nice". Maybe it's mostly targeted towards tech roles at that?
I think everyone should dissuade themselves of the concept that such a thing as a "nice" company really truly exists. I've worked at close to 10 companies in my career both public and private.
Some of the companies I've worked the big "family" culture and "our people are our greatest asset" company principles were the ones to do the deepest and swiftest cuts. Meanwhile their supposedly comparatively ruthless shark infested competitors keep on keeping on.
The people I saw most impacted by this were the ones that took the culture both literally and seriously, staying in the big happy family companies long enough to develop far too much company-specific rather than industry specific expertise, just in time to get laid off at 50.