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How do layoffs like this happen? Every team cuts 5%? Wholesale elimination of teams?

• squokko 4y ago
  Both. Teams that haven't gotten exec buy-in just get axed (with lots of good people) and then every Director is required to sacrifice a few people (in this section, most of the people laid off are low performers, but definitely some good performers who have made the wrong enemies or haven't made the right friends).
• cldellow 4y ago
  It varies. I was at MSFT during the 2008 layoffs. My division fired a few percent of people. A friend's group had a "We're firing everyone in Redmond who works on this team and consolidating in Hyderabad."