Re:Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of it...
by nxm on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @06:22AM
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Well too many were hired back in 2021-2023 when the government was printing money left and right... could still be correcting here, but since it's Microsoft, they were able to hand on longer.
Layoffs like this are a huge reason for that. Talent pools are overlapping like never before. A person with 5 years of solid experience applying for tons of jobs and getting nowhere, only to realize they are competing with people with 10-15 years of experience freshly laid off from big companies. At that point, early career people are getting pushed almost completely out of the industry.