Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer

Re:Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure ... by pRusya on Thursday April 02, 2026 @01:58PM (#47617869)

It's a nice read. Thank you for sharing this.

> Microsoft, meanwhile, conducted major layoffs—approximately 15,000 roles across waves in May and July 2025 —most likely to compensate for the immediate losses to CoreWeave ahead of the next earnings calls.

This is what people should know when seeing massive layoffs due to AI.

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Re:Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure ... by maxwg on Thursday April 02, 2026 @10:04PM (#47622481)

I honestly thought this was one of the weaker points of the article.

The OpenAI deal almost certainly related purely to GPU capacity, which had little to do with the article. The layoffs would have happened regardless.

IMO - churn, and generalization is the root cause. Engineers are thrown on projects for a year with little prior experience, leave others to pickup the pieces, etc. There's no longer a sense of ownership, and I'm sure the recent wave of layoffs isn't helping with this.

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Re:Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure ... by axelriet on Friday April 03, 2026 @12:22AM (#47623172)

GPUs is something that can be fixed simply by throwing money at it.

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Re:Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure ... by hrmtst93837 on Friday April 03, 2026 @07:39AM (#47625526)

Churn explains the surface issues but managers reward ship counts over continuity, so turnover pays.

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Re:Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure ... by GandalfHN on Friday April 03, 2026 @10:43AM (#47627229)

Dead ownership gets you paralysis, engineers dodge ugly fixes and wait for the next random reorg to dump teh mess on someone else.

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