Microsoft to lay off 11,000 employees

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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