Re:The Broken Microsoft Pact: Layoffs and Performance Manage...
by wbl on Sunday July 06, 2025 @08:50PM
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What companies do you think are at that level?
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Re:The Broken Microsoft Pact: Layoffs and Performance Manage...
by int_19h on Sunday July 06, 2025 @10:11PM
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Google, Facebook, Amazon.
Amazon is in the same ballpark AFAIK, but the other two have noticeably better comp. The "Microsoft deal", such as it is, was that it's a place where you don't have to grind hard. This has changed now though.
Re:The Broken Microsoft Pact: Layoffs and Performance Manage...
by marssaxman on Monday July 07, 2025 @08:20AM
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It certainly didn't work that way for me, back in the late 2000s - my stint at Microsoft was the most exhausting grind of my career.
The common wisdom at the time was that different divisions of Microsoft had widely varying cultures, with as much difference as you'd expect to see between unrelated companies, so perhaps that was just DevDiv.