

Microsoft To Slow Hiring in Windows, Office, Teams Groups (bloomberg.com) 21
Microsoft will slow hiring in its Windows, Office and Teams chat and conferencing software groups, citing a need to realign staffing priorities as it approaches a new fiscal year in a time of global economic uncertainty. From a report: All new hires must be approved by Executive Vice President Rajesh Jha and his leadership team, Jha told employees in an email Thursday, a Microsoft spokesperson said. Those groups have expanded recently and the company wants to make sure it's making the right hires in the right places, the spokesperson said. The slowdown is not companywide, and overall the software maker will continue to hire, the spokesperson said, noting that such caution is typical in periods of economic volatility. "As Microsoft gets ready for the new fiscal year, it is making sure the right resources are aligned to the right opportunity," the company said in a statement. "Microsoft will continue to grow headcount in the year ahead and it will add additional focus to where those resources go." The company's fiscal year starts July 1.
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Things fluctuate.
We are in an envrionment that favors employees, as businesses need more employees to keep functioning, as COVID had a lot of companies being stupid and got rid of off a good chunk of their staff, thinking they will rush back in when things get better. Well that is not how it works, when an employee leaves, it is rare that they will come back, as they know you will not support them during hard times, and being out of work, means they will find a new and better job. So the company will nee
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Except for when other companies are not hiring, so they take what they can get.
There are a lot of people who want big company names on their Resume, Like Microsoft, Facebook, Tesla, Amazon on their resume. Also they are a lot of smaller employers who love to hire people with those names on their resume.
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Sure. There are a lot of bad hiring decisions going on.
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Exactly. Now, MS has never hired the best and the brightest (as can be seen by their generally crappy and 2nd-rated products), but generally speaking, you get one chance to hire a talented person and that is it. If you ask them later, most will have found a place they are comfortable in and will have no desire to leave.
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The summary states that the hiring sl
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Can't they hire someone to redesign all that stuff so the UI is consistent? Or at least to redo all the old icons? I am not even asking from them to redoany of the deeper parts of the OS that nobody dares to touch since Ray Ozzie left (they only tweak them instead), just the superficial stuff.
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Can't they hire someone to redesign all that stuff so the UI is consistent?
They can just use the original UI designers -- they change their minds about what's a "good" UI every few years.
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There comes a time in every project when it is necessary to behead the architects and begin construction.
- Abi bar-Shim, Manager, Great Pyramid builder
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most of the Windows UI is still using the old aesthetic
Don't care. The Motif widget toolkit is good enough to get work done. Microsoft needs to pick one look and stick with it as the baseline. Confine themselves to adding actual functionality and making at least some headway against their backlog of bugs.
Let users who want a different look change it with skins and/or edits to something like an Xresources file.
not even asking from them to redoany of the deeper parts of the OS
New! Windows! Featuring snazzy icons. And the same internal bugs as always.
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Realign staffing to where? (Score:3)
Microsoft will slow hiring in its Windows, Office and Teams ... citing a need to realign staffing priorities ...
Does MS really make anything other than Windows, Office and (shudder) Teams? Will they be shifting hiring to their cloud and Surface products, or just not hiring? I mean they can only lose so many government cloud contracts and make so many over-priced laptops... :-)
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It's 100% XBox and Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboards from now on.
Right... I completely forgot about XBox -- I'm not a gamer. And I'm actually using a MS Internet Keyboard [amazon.com] I've had for almost 20 years. I guess they're not making new money on either from me ... :-)
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Glad they're keeping the Skype team (Score:2)
Vague PHB double-talk (Score:2)
Did MS hire Scott Adams?
Make a working File Explorer (Score:1)
Seriously, 20 years with File Explorer - a crucial part of your OS - unable to handle the long file paths of your favored file system - NTFS.
THAT. IS. PATHETIC.
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Yea, all I want to do is copy a file from one pane to the other. Instead of having to open two overlapping windows that get in the way of each other.