We're letting you go, but if you REALLY want to stay, find a team that wants you I don't know about Microsoft. But I've known quite a number of people at Intel

We're letting you go, but if you REALLY want to stay, find a team that wants you I don't know about Microsoft. But I've known quite a number of people at Intel who have gone thru this sort of procedure. Every two or three years there would be a re-org and thousands would get thrown into a layoff pool, from which they had perhaps 60 days to get hired into another group. But there really wasn't a stigma, many people successfully navigated that process four or five times over the years. The real downside was that being in the pool was your severance. When your 60 days ran out you were SOL.