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I was part of the much bigger proportioned layoff back in 2009 shortly after my second child was born, back when MiniMicrosoft was still posting. I was so upset
by danielodievich 4y ago
I was part of the much bigger proportioned layoff back in 2009 shortly after my second child was born, back when MiniMicrosoft was still posting. I was so upset! BUT! It was actually a great thing that happened to me. I got a big severance, and almost immediately started somewhere else I've been considering with 30% raise and pretty quickly arriving great bonuses. I wish the same to the people laid off, looks like at least a couple of people in that twitter thread are awesome people!
ALSO!
I went back to Microsoft consulting as a both orange and a purple badge for a number of years, and In 2011 I worked on a super secret project with Microsoft HR helping tune a badly implemented upgrade to the system tracking layoffs, so secret I had to sign a ton of docs just to know it existed. It was eye opening. In organization that size there are always layoffs, some small (like 10 people), some slightly bigger (like 100 people). They were in the height of the Skype integration (aka ripping it to pieces) and so several hundred of scandinavians/estoninans were getting an axe. I fixed the system's perf issues and got out of there asap
- greggsy 4y ago18,000… wow. Did that actually materialise? http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2014/07/18000-microsoft-jobs-gone-eventually.html?m=1 http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2014/07/18000-microsoft-jobs-go...
- science4sail 4y agoYep - I lived through it too and it led to me realizing that there could eventually be a life outside of the MSFT bubble. I think that the vast majority of the impacted employees were in Nokia, but the mothership was also affected - one of our team members simply vanished that day.
- 72f988bf 4y ago> I went back to Microsoft consulting as a both orange and a purple badge Orange badge is for contractors, but purple badge are for dogs: https://twitter.com/juliehubs/status/892459513432858624 https://twitter.com/juliehubs/status/892459513432858624 Was purple used for a different badge type back then? It's either that, or you are an animagus like Sirius Black!