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At Microsoft, it is an empirical but widely-held belief that if you are an important part of a profitable division, you are a lot less likely to be RIFF'd. That
by Wistar 4y ago
At Microsoft, it is an empirical but widely-held belief that if you are an important part of a profitable division, you are a lot less likely to be RIFF'd. That said, I do know—what I considered to be—a valuable 31-year dev of MS Office who got laid off in the recent RIFF. I was very surprised.
- nocsi 4y agoRemember something about Microsoft. They have countless competing projects internally to keep the bloodlust going. What’s profitable? MS will let the most successful team live and kill the other two I’m not surprised they had to get rid legacy folks in the office team. The person must have refused to move onto another team and Office is a completely different product than it was before