Microsoft to lay off 11,000 employees

Re:Microsoft to lay off 11,000 employees by thrashh on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @03:17PM (#34418263)

Well if you’re not hiring, your competitor is picking up the talent

Plus the more people that you have, the faster you can get competitive products out to market

Could be a damned if you do, dammed if you don’t situation

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Re:Microsoft to lay off 11,000 employees by redtriumph on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @04:54PM (#34419912)

> Plus the more people that you have, the faster you can get competitive products out to market

This is not always true. Do you have citation to back this up?

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Re:Microsoft to lay off 11,000 employees by schlauerfox on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @06:33PM (#34421064)

Yeah, effectiveness is something too in monopoly tech firms. The Mythical Man Month https://archive.org/details/MythicalManMonth Steve Jobs on product dev vs marketing teams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4VBqTViEx4

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Re:Microsoft to lay off 11,000 employees by ipaddr on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @07:10PM (#34421400)

If you rephrased to say you have more opportunities to take more bets.

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Re:Microsoft to lay off 11,000 employees by thrashh on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @11:15AM (#34428617)

Well I said “can.”

It’s not always true but you can’t do the work of 6 people with 2.

I’ve definitely been on teams blocked by the number of people where getting even one more QA person sped things up a lot.

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