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> Microsoft reviewed some London-based roles and made the decision to unify some engineering positions. What does that mean?
by mapleoin 10y ago
> Microsoft reviewed some London-based roles and made the decision to unify some engineering positions.
What does that mean?
- wnevets 10y agoProbably means some people are getting fired and others are being merged into other teams.
- enraged_camel 10y ago>>Probably means some people are getting fired I think the proper term in this case is "laid off", since the company is eliminating those positions by closing that particular office.
- creshal 10y agoSince the Skype team hasn't actually done anything worthwhile in the past few years, they can stop pretending and just kick them out.
- dm03514 10y agoengineers do everything: Product management, testing, ops?
- WorldMaker 10y agoFrom an outside perspective, it sounds like Microsoft finally decided to merge various "Skype, but not efforts". There's the obvious in that Skype has had a bunch of different platform clients that were never quite all aligned and is now trying to merge everything into a single UWP client. But it also sounds like Microsoft is also finally slowly starting to merge in the efforts from the business side (Yammer, Skype for Business aka Lync) and unify those communication efforts a bit more than just how Skype and Skype for Business share a brand but not much else. (All of this in an effort to present a more unified front versus Slack, HipChat, and others currently eating into the enterprise space and Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, and others into the consumer space.) From that perspective it's easy to imagine there have been quite a positions that have been redundant between the various teams.
- BooneJS 10y agoIt seems it's another way of saying "redundancy" in the UK.
- r_smart 10y agoBusiness speak for human centipede.