Re:Microsoft Shares Soar to Record on Earnings Boost From Cloud
by dpark on Saturday October 22, 2016 @04:59PM
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That's not what happened. Layoffs were across the company but mostly focused on "redundancies" with the Nokia purchase. Of the non-Nokia-related layoffs, SDE, SDET, and PM were all affected. SDET took a bigger hit but it was nowhere near all of them. The discipline was renamed "quality".
Later, the quality org was merged with engineering, "eliminating" the testers by making them devs. This change happened across the company but not simultaneously.
Disclosure: Microsoft employee, but this has all been reported on. e.g. Ars Technica covered part of this:
Later, the quality org was merged with engineering, "eliminating" the testers by making them devs. This change happened across the company but not simultaneously.
Disclosure: Microsoft employee, but this has all been reported on. e.g. Ars Technica covered part of this:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/how-mi...