No Salary Increase This Year for FTEs at Microsoft(teamblind.com)
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No Salary Increase This Year for FTEs at Microsoft
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I don’t think you understand how much stock employees have. If the stock price go up, everyone is extremely happy
> I’ve been at the company a long time and never felt like such an expendable cog as I’ve felt the last year.
I bet MSFT employees think unionizing is for "poor performers". But on a long enough timeline everyone is a cog.
I bet MSFT employees think unionizing is for "poor performers". But on a long enough timeline everyone is a cog.
Nice morale booster after the layoffs from the world's 2nd largest company in terms of market cap. Are any other big tech companies doing this?
Amazon, most people got trivial market adjustments. 1-2% increases when cola was way above that for social security has realistically translated to paycuts which are compounded further with poor stock performance and sign-on bonuses starting to ween down.
all the eng budget is spent on compute cost for ai?
this is a great way to allow inflation to implement pretty significant pay cuts
this is a great way to allow inflation to implement pretty significant pay cuts
Another round of layoffs without actually having to do it. Those who have the ability to find jobs, even in this environment, will leave. Since Microsoft has decided that that risk is totally acceptable to them, the attrition is actually the bonus for the firm.
Exactly. This is a layoff without having to pay severance.
Tech companies have realized there is no reason to pay their employees living in the U.S. a premium. There was a belief, whether true or not, that having their best employees working together in the same space gave them outsized returns. But now their most expensive employees refuse to work together in the same space.
The only question these companies have now is how to offload them fast enough to replace them with cheaper employees in Asia, Eastern Europe, and South America.
As a bonus, those employees are even more likely to come into the office and gain whatever multiplier effect working physically with each other the CEOs of tech companies believe might exist.
Tech companies have realized there is no reason to pay their employees living in the U.S. a premium. There was a belief, whether true or not, that having their best employees working together in the same space gave them outsized returns. But now their most expensive employees refuse to work together in the same space.
The only question these companies have now is how to offload them fast enough to replace them with cheaper employees in Asia, Eastern Europe, and South America.
As a bonus, those employees are even more likely to come into the office and gain whatever multiplier effect working physically with each other the CEOs of tech companies believe might exist.
This "layoff" would then only be pushing off high-performance workers.
Slackers who don't have higher chances outside will stay.
Slackers who don't have higher chances outside will stay.
> We will continue to emphasize and recognize exceptional performance with high rewards, and to do so, managers will need to differentiate pay for performance within their allocated budgets
so, stack ranking is now openly recommended?
so, stack ranking is now openly recommended?
Paying your top performers more is not the same as stack ranking.
Stack ranking was commonplace and common knowledge when I worked there. Managers would submit rankings and the relative rankings would be "merged" up to skip/skip2 level. Well, maybe not "putting them on a stack" explicitly, but submitting a list of where folks fell on the bell curve...
Duplicate of front page post.
If this is a dupe then please post link. Not seeing it on the first few pages.
Or will their mostly-stock-based income go up as a result of saving so much money and increasing the stock price?