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Actually, for the Operating Systems Group specifically, it was reportedly a straight up layoff of all testers. See https://www.zdnet.com/article/beyond-12500-f
by ThrowawayB7 2y ago
Actually, for the Operating Systems Group specifically, it was reportedly a straight up layoff of all testers. See https://www.zdnet.com/article/beyond-12500-former-nokia-employees-who-else-is-microsoft-laying-off/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/beyond-12500-former-nokia-empl... Other divisions reportedly transitioned their testers to developers, which didn't work out well (big surprise) and resulted in heavy attrition later.
- eddythompson80 2y agoDid you read the article you linked to? The article is from 2014 saying that Microsoft laid off ~12K after acquiring ~18k of Nokia employees 3 years prior. That left ~5k out of total ~135k, at the time, unaccounted for per Microsoft announcement. Microsoft had 1:1 dev:QA before that. Even if those ~5k were entirely from OSG QA (they weren’t), it wouldn’t come close to “fire all their in-house QA”