Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce
Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce
It's likely Microsoft's largest job purge since it said goodbye to 10,000 employees in 2023.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29608536
Can't wait for windows updates to get even buggier ! Seriously though I'm building an all amd gaming rig in november and never using windows again.
I work in games. Its fucking incredible looking at my linkedin. I would say about 80% of my coworkers throughout my career are out of work right now. I started my own company because I was sick of it.
I started my own company because I was sick of it.
I'm genuinely curious to hear how you've found it easier to land clients than employers. In my experience, you really need a good in with a bigger firm if you're going to have any hope of launching a business. Unless your old employer is jettisoning their contracts as quickly as they jettison their staff, that can be tricky.
I want to ask what company so I can see what you're making but I imagine you don't want to doxx yourself, especially not with that username lol
Don't worry sounds like they are setting up sweat shops to keep these people busy.
Don't worry sounds like they are setting up sweat shops to keep these people busy.
Sounds great!
pre-empting the AI non existent returns
So I recently interviewed for a job that I did at a competitor. I was a team leader. I was a Senior engineer. I was going up against 300+ people for a single job and I didn’t even make it to the in person interviews. That’s how hard this market is right now. I have 10 years in the industry. And I can’t find a job besides a store clerk position at a grocery store.
Same, I got laid off recently and 12 years of experience isn't even getting me interviews at in-person jobs.
Try from India or wherever they're outsourcing work to
There has never been a better time to switch to Mint, Pop_OS, or Bazzite.
Of course we need three flavor so we don't have a single majority and each of them have their own nuisance. Same as JavaScript libraries.
openSUSE is also pretty great, and doesn't get the attention it deserves.
There really is a Linux for everyone.
But not Ubuntu. We don't like Ubuntu here, I feel like
Ubuntu is fine. I do understand the hate, though. Snap is contentious for very good reasons, Canonical makes major decisions by fiat rather than listening to the community (see Snap again), and they have corporate motives that are often at odds with the spirit and desires of the greater FOSS community (like forking upstream projects instead of contributing).
Mint is still based on Ubuntu, for example, but I feel it’s a more ethical suggestion than Ubuntu itself.
Yeah, went Mint 18 months ago. Started at MSDOS in the 1990s, ended at W10.
Well done!
I am sure the people who just lost their job will be super happy about that.
This place is constantly shilling Linux, decrying LLMs, and downvoting anything that doesn’t fit the status quo.
Don’t get me wrong I like this place on the whole, but I’ve just come to realise nobody here actually wants to engage with anybody different and just dog piles.
We are the left wing version of r/conservative.
Already on the way babayyy. Ubuntu gang here we gooooo I know, i know. There are other popular distros but I wanted to start there
Ubuntu is great for begginers, go for it
Way to go!
I will be looking into these, thanks for sharing! Any top recommendations from the three??
It's not on the list, but I've been rocking the same KDE fedora installation through about ten version upgrades. Once you dial in your settings and software choices, it's fairly solid.
The only issue I can recall was some weirdness with steam's dependencies blocking my last version upgrade, but it was easily bypassed.
- Disable secureboot so you don't have to run a few commands and restart in order to sign keys
- Ensure your drives are formatted to a linux format to reduce headaches with steam libraries
- if the command starts with "sudo(superuser Do)" it's time to read up on what each part of the command does exactly.
- Linux wants you to mount and unmount your drives(filesystems) manually. Plugging them in won't instantly allow data transfer.
- Don't be surprised that almost any linux is a perfectly functional OS with fantastic UX and less day to day hassle and management compared to windows.
Pop!_OS is my top recommendation for Windows expats, followed by Mint (Cinnamon Edition), and then Bazzite (KDE Plasma desktop). Bazzite is so, so, so good, but it has some unique features that make it a little more frustrating for Windows power users who are new to Linux. But honestly they are all good. Pick one, and if you aren’t vibing with it, try something else.
Also, keep in mind that “distro” and “desktop environment (DTE)” are two different things. Sometimes a distro has a default DTE and sometimes it gives you a choice. The DTE makes the biggest difference to your experience. There are many different DTEs, but the two biggest are GNOME (MacOS-like and moderately customizable) and KDE Plasma (Windows-like by default, but very customizable).
I recommend Mint. It’s super easy to install and maintain. And very easy to use.
They know what's coming and That's going to make America grate again.
Cool. I mean I haven't been able to get past a single 10-minute "I just want to go over the job with you and collect some basic information" phone interview in 6-months.
But ya know. Another 6,000 people on the market is cool too.
How many recruiter screens are you getting? If you are getting a decent amount, your resume is likely good.
If you are failing recruiter screens, you are saying or doing something that is turning them off.
I would see if you can get feedback or have a friend “screen” you.
There are some services or organizations for mock interviews. Utilize them!
I've been saying for years the corporate world was getting ready to pull the rug from tech workers. Why do people think educational standards (and as it goes, engineering standards) for software development have been pushed down so much over the last decade? "What if you get hit by a bus??" A well strangely well backed movement to "stop gatekeeping" software development now revealed as a trojan horse to make developers fungible.
Well it might take 2TB of RAM for this buggy prod system to store and retrieve a JSON blob but at least anyone can work on it.
I keep hoping this will spark some sort of anti-capitalist zeitgeist. But labor might be too scattered and individualistic.
Like, why are we all scrambling for a handful of jobs when the rich have so many resources?
"But that's communism!"
- The USA, probably
I lost my job in April 2024 and I finally got my new job at the end of January. Keep your chin up. Look for people you know who could give referrals. That's how I ended up getting hired. Good luck!
I do try.
Every single former co-worker has ghosted me at this point and even my friends have basically taken a "Hahaha, for sure mate, for sure, hey have you guys ever changed the conversation?" attitude when I bring up connecting me with people.
People suck lol.
Who will fuck up the settings, control panel, registry, etc. interfaces now? The person who keeps putting Candy Crush on the start menu like it’s their life mission?
Hey, they spent billions on their acquisition of ActiVivendiBethesdaBlizzArcaneKing and they're gonna Get. Their. ROI.
an LLM.
It's probably just another layer of "quality control" that's gone now.
It's so funny going through the control panel, getting to more and more esoteric settings, and seeing the UI getting older and older. I ditched Windows after Windows 7 but remember seeing menu themes that looked like they haven't been updated since Windows NT
That's because Windows NT is still in there
Dude a senior manager needs to get promoted somehow
They didn’t have growth mentality.
The Microsoft is dead. Long live the Linux!
Well, shit. Here we go again.
Is there an over/under going on for the rest of the tech sectors 's layoffs this year?
Dell just quietly laid off a bunch of people last week
The beatings will continue until tech workers unionize.
There will definitely be more, especially as the economic situation in the US continues to worsen. Big tech works under the unsustainable model of unlimited growth, and even if profits increase, if they don't increase "enough" they lay off workers. They could save a ton of money by laying off execs, but they'll never do that.
I've found layoffs.fyi to be pretty up to date with tracking how many people are laid off in the tech sector. It's no wonder that it's nearly impossible to find a job in tech, and these execs and boards are to blame.
I'd be lying if I said I hadn't considered a career change, not because of the work itself but because I'm exhausted from worrying about if I'll have a job to pay the bills tomorrow. The only thing stopping me is that I have no idea what I'd do otherwise.
I've been heavily considering a career change. I'm in government, so on top of the DOGE bullshit, I can't even look to the private sector for reprieve because tech layoffs have been insane for over 3 years.
is it still hard? even with layoffs, people can get some jobs, eventhough not as high as income as before.
cant say the same for other stem industries, where its already very difficult to get a job in the field prior to even the pandemic. im guessing with all the funding being cut from the sciences , universities might be suffering as are biotech jobs(which are limited and gatekeeped on purpose)
I have no idea but I’m definitely going to say the tone of rolling big tech layoffs doesn’t stop here.
Microsoft has 200,000 employees? Dang
The tech industry is about to become a total shit show. Mark my words
About to? It’s been brutal for the past 3 years.
its been bad since it started in 2023. i shudder to think about stem labs though.
It's been a total shit show for quite some time now...
The article says that they outperformed expectations, and that they'd decided that they didn't need some layers of management. I don't think that that's intrinsically crazy; there are tech companies that have emphasized having a relatively flat structure, like Google.
Give people the right to work so corpos can't do this shit.