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Microsoft To Slow Hiring in Windows, Office, Teams Groups (bloomberg.com) 21

Posted by msmash from the up-next dept.
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

    • It is a good test of a company's future-orientation. If they choose to maximize current quarterly profits at the expense of long-term goals then employees will look elsewhere for opportunities.

      • 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.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by gweihir ( 88907 )

        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.

      • Just based on what I'm seeing in the market right now it is probably an issue of obtaining talent. My own employer is struggling to fill positions across the board. The market is so tight that relatively junior engineers are able to demand fairly high compensation in their bracket right now, and most candidates seem to have multiple offers in hand and are using them to negotiate better terms. If you don't make an offer fast enough they are gone to another employer.

        The summary states that the hiring sl

  • Re: (Score:4, Interesting)

    by kurkosdr ( 2378710 ) on Thursday May 26, 2022 @02:19PM (#62568422)
    A bit unrelated, but I always wondered what all these people in the Windows team are doing after Windows 7 was released. For example, it's been about 10 years since Microsoft decided to have a radically new UI, and most of the Windows UI is still using the old aesthetic. Even the new parts of the UI have leftover elements from Windows 8, despite the fact the new UI aesthetic has evolved since then.

    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.

    • 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.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by PPH ( 736903 )

        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

      • Apple do this too, but they have enough UI designers around to change the UI (at least on a superficial level) so it doesn't look like a hodgepodge of UI styles.

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by PPH ( 736903 )

      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.

  • Realign staffing to where? (Score:3)

    by fahrbot-bot ( 874524 ) on Thursday May 26, 2022 @02:50PM (#62568540)

    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... :-)

  • Got to keep people in touch.

  • Did MS hire Scott Adams?

  • THEN sack your programmers.

    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.
    • > 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.

      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.

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