Daniel Sada Caraveo – The broken Microsoft Pact: Layoffs and Performance Management – Software, Notes & Culture

The deal was simple: We’ll pay you 20-50% below market rate, but in exchange, you get stability, reasonable work-life balance, and most importantly, no layoffs. This wasn’t written in any employee handbook, but everyone understood it. It was the Microsoft way.

あの日までは南の方で Google 社員も似たような幻想を抱いていた旨をお知らせします。

そんな Pact を反故にした社長のお言葉ですが・・・

Recommitting to our why, what, and how - The Official Microsoft Blog

By every objective measure, Microsoft is thriving—our market performance, strategic positioning, and growth all point up and to the right. (…) And yet, at the same time, we’ve undergone layoffs.

This is the enigma of success in an industry that has no franchise value.

きみたちめっちゃ franchise value で生きてるじゃんか！！検索みたいにエーアイに殺される心配もないじゃんか！！何いってんだ！！なでらっち、最近ちょっと Zuck 氏みたいなサイコパスになってきてない？ Sam Altman にフラレて性格変わっちゃったのかい？