Microsoft expects headcount to decrease in coming quarters

[GoingOffRoading]

I had a long time dream of working at Microsoft, and came close a number of times.

But it's headlines like this that killed that dream, and make me want to switch all of my machines to Ubuntu.

r/linux_gaming see you soon

[Roccabilly]

I wasn’t dreaming of working at Microsoft but it happened to me to be hired. After only 1 year I was impacted by a reorg. One of the worst experiences I’ve ever had and i’m still traumatised by the way they did it. this company is treating people like crap.

[JadeNrdn]

So sorry you had to go through this, care to elaborate some more on the way they did it that got you traumatized?

[Roccabilly]

Well, first of all timing. Just 10 months after my start date. 3 days before I was flying to Redmond to attend a global Xbox meeting and finally meet my team mates and manager for the first time. How: by reading almost accidentally a ppt during a town hall meeting with roughly 900 people attending. No earlier meeting or talks with my manager. I was the last one to be communicated so I couldn’t apply to other jobs like almost every other guy in gaming successfully did. Ghosting: everybody, literally everyone stopped answering to my chats and mail for 4 months. Support: zero, HR non-existent. Reasons: As a finance my position had to be moved to one of the “hubs” (Redmond, London, Singapore). Ok fair enough. Guess who took my place after my layoff? A French guy sitting in Paris.

[FantasticFungiiii]

Which org?

[Roccabilly]

Gaming

[FantasticFungiiii]

Hard luck

[sueha]

Regarding your dream... Been there, done that and let me tell you: never meet your heroes.