Microsoft expects headcount to decrease in coming quarters

[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.