We learned about the Microsoft layoffs in the news yesterday and right now nobody knows who will be impacted. I'm sure they will handle it as well as they can, but learning about it from the news first instead of the CEO is also odd. We did get an email from Satya this morning but it appears that notifying impacted folks will be done in a distributed manner by their management chain.
Most of the company isn't hiring now so there won't be many internal jobs that those being terminated could try to apply for.
Also at Microsoft - zero communication until the Satya email today too. Heard about it in the news and mostly in the news. Not great in terms of communication.
> but learning about it from the news first instead of the CEO is also odd.
Isn't that always the case? It is hard to keep something like a huge layoff secret, it will invariably leak as soon as the cogs are set into motion and before the CEO can message the ranks.
Well at Microsoft the CEO does a great job usually announcing major news via email to employees and releasing it for investors publicly at the same time. Not so this time.
I worked at MS for 9 years and rumors always seemed to be a little bit ahead of executive messaging. But I left in 2016, so maybe it was a different time.
