tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post6028722698145436474..comments2024-03-18T12:52:48.117-07:00Comments on Mini-Microsoft: Spitfire Backfire, Live Labs, and Not My 1,400Who da'Punkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18205453956191063442noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-77928908449578150722009-05-05T06:33:00.000-07:002009-05-05T06:33:00.000-07:00Mini, I told you Tuesday, May 5th, at 6am, and you...Mini, I told you Tuesday, May 5th, at 6am, and you questioned me when I told you it's confirmed...well there ya go....read your corp email...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-3524609684345226642009-05-01T00:34:00.000-07:002009-05-01T00:34:00.000-07:00Also heard of a big project getting pm'd to death....Also heard of a big project getting pm'd to death.... I can see these pm's micromanaging a project into the dumpster, telling very experienced engineers exactly what to do, then blame them later for derailing the project. Feeling like becoming a disposable entity? I hear ya and I can hear the talent shredder screaming all day too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-22031196226627008072009-05-01T00:24:00.000-07:002009-05-01T00:24:00.000-07:00The book "winning" from Jack Welch talks about giv...The book "winning" from Jack Welch talks about giving layoff notices on a Friday so the (ex) employee has all weekend (of his own time) to calm down. That same book also talks about building the person back up after getting wrecked by the layoff notice: good practice.... Btw: I heard very interesting feedback of "Corporate Confidential" from Shapiro, did not read this book but another one from the same writer: a big eye opener.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-62577381723327149242009-04-27T09:50:00.000-07:002009-04-27T09:50:00.000-07:00If MS wants to change their mind about having a ba...If MS wants to change their mind about having a bar on their property, that's their prerogative. What's not cool is letting the people who invested their money in the build-out eat the loss. MS should fully reimburse them, with interest.<br /><br />-jcrjcrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07013638886217607372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-56036272774082170992009-04-27T09:17:00.000-07:002009-04-27T09:17:00.000-07:00Looks like the longer term trend for Microsoft's s...Looks like the longer term trend for Microsoft's stock isn't so hot :(<br /><br /><A HREF="http://www.traderbots.com/stocks/Stock.aspx?symbol=msft" REL="nofollow">Microsoft Prediction</A>I guess that means that the stock market is more bearish than bullish. I'm still holding on to my shares though and thinkin win7 win7 win7Roynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-36598043605084348612009-04-22T23:20:00.000-07:002009-04-22T23:20:00.000-07:00"Hmmm, May 5th? It's a Tuesday, a bit arbitrary, i..."Hmmm, May 5th? It's a Tuesday, a bit arbitrary, isn't it? Anything special about that day?"<br /><br />another comment indicates its may 15th, May be the OP of this comment wanted to say 15th as well. If that's the case we may be on to something here. Among other things May 15th is a friday...<br />(No, I don't have any 'insider' information. I am just guessing from what i read here)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-33008773282494798852009-04-22T22:39:00.000-07:002009-04-22T22:39:00.000-07:00"We're IBM now, we suck"
Whats wrong with IBM?
..."We're IBM now, we suck"<br /><br />Whats wrong with IBM? <br /><br />Looking at the stock, they seem to have their act together compared to MSFT. Currently -60% difference compared to IBM. <br /><br /><A HREF="http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/charts/big.chart?symb=ibm&compidx=aaaaa%3A0&comp=msft&ma=0&maval=9&uf=0&lf=1&lf2=0&lf3=0&type=2&size=2&state=8&sid=2595&style=320&time=13&freq=1&nosettings=1&rand=2652&mocktick=1" REL="nofollow">IBM vs. MSFT Chart</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-36340576500993979962009-04-22T20:33:00.000-07:002009-04-22T20:33:00.000-07:00Booze at the spitfire I could live without, dumb b...<B>Booze at the spitfire I could live without, dumb but I can stand that. The layoffs are still comming people. May 5th is the current D-Day for the next round, have fun.<br /><br />oh yeah. MSPoll results come out in a week.. laughable...<br /></B>Hmmm, May 5th? It's a Tuesday, a bit arbitrary, isn't it? Anything special about that day?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-51055743332504412062009-04-22T20:04:00.000-07:002009-04-22T20:04:00.000-07:00A friend of a friend (yeah, I know, talk about hea...A friend of a friend (yeah, I know, talk about hearsay) apparently has the same name as someone else in HR and keeps getting sent spreadsheets regarding layoffs. Apparently something is going to happen on May 15th...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-61919066400660835382009-04-22T19:46:00.000-07:002009-04-22T19:46:00.000-07:00"We had one product management person for every th...<I>"We had one product management person for every three engineers... We had a lot of people telling engineers what to do but nobody fucking doing anything."<br /><br />Guess which company the speaker is referring to... bonus points for guessing the speaker...</I>Well, I knew it wasn't Microsoft. All the teams I've been on have had an almost 1:1 PM:dev ratio. Usually the PMs are recent college hires without much interest in computers or the product they're "working" on, and they get to tell the devs with 10-20+ years experience how software should be engineered. But I'm sure they all do a bang-up job deciding how to position the buttons on a vending machine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-52069125235120693572009-04-22T19:28:00.000-07:002009-04-22T19:28:00.000-07:00Booze at the spitfire I could live without, dumb b...Booze at the spitfire I could live without, dumb but I can stand that. The layoffs are still comming people. May 5th is the current D-Day for the next round, have fun.<br /><br />oh yeah. MSPoll results come out in a week.. laughable...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-56526114056828199312009-04-22T19:15:00.000-07:002009-04-22T19:15:00.000-07:00If layoffs are happening tomorrow, Microsoft learn...If layoffs are happening tomorrow, Microsoft learned to be sneakier about them. To answer the question above, yes Headtrax is working now.<br /><br />I personally don't think there will be mass layoffs right now. We just opened Spitfire, and we'd have a PR nightmare. A headline might read "Microsoft Fires Hundreds, The Rest Get Drunk at New MS Bar"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-78251282738881603622009-04-22T19:00:00.000-07:002009-04-22T19:00:00.000-07:00Just tried to schedule a meeting for tomorrow in t...Just tried to schedule a meeting for tomorrow in the new Studio A building, 36 out of 40 conference rooms are booked from 1:00pm to 4:00pm. Looks like a solid block of blue in Outlook. No other day this week or next week has such a solid block as this. Looks to me like something is up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-45701166242289215502009-04-22T14:54:00.000-07:002009-04-22T14:54:00.000-07:00Besides the announced reductions, some groups have...Besides the announced reductions, some groups have decided to cut the bottom 10%. They are doing this one person at a time, and they are keeping it very quite. This is happening with greater frequency. Many of these people do not deserve to leave, but politics prevails. Yet the top still receives those partner rewards.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-75279631403136212252009-04-22T13:49:00.000-07:002009-04-22T13:49:00.000-07:00"india lay off rumours
200 in MS IT India
1400 in ..."india lay off rumours<br />200 in MS IT India<br />1400 in MS IDC<br />"<br />Really? I don't think there are so many FTEs in IDC. Even in MSIT the number of FTEs are not that high.<br /><br />However, rumors are rife on layoff and folks are expecting atleast 5-10% cuts in a whole bunch of teams.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-32986733776659926652009-04-22T09:33:00.000-07:002009-04-22T09:33:00.000-07:00"We had one product management person for every th..."We had one product management person for every three engineers... We had a lot of people telling engineers what to do but nobody fucking doing anything." <br /><br />Guess which company the speaker is referring to... bonus points for guessing the speaker...<br /><br /><A HREF="http://valleywag.gawker.com/5222985/hear-yahoo-ceo-carol-bartz-drop-the-f+bomb" REL="nofollow">answer</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-7198848961946297612009-04-22T09:30:00.000-07:002009-04-22T09:30:00.000-07:00>> So you phone screen and interview random ...>> So you phone screen and interview random <br />>> desperate people with no relevant experience?<br /><br />Umm, no. :-) We only phone screen and interview folks whose resumes match basic qualifications (or those who come in through a personal recommendation of an employee), in which case our recruiter forwards them to us. There are quite a few ex-MSFT people here, we're not total hacks as far as interviewing is concerned.<br /><br />In most cases, though, what's in the resume is a gross exaggeration at best. E.g. people say they have data warehousing background and then can't explain what a snowflake schema is or why one might want to partition a table.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-89424666542254009672009-04-22T07:19:00.000-07:002009-04-22T07:19:00.000-07:00Layoff day apparently - please provide updates on ...Layoff day apparently - please provide updates on 'reorgs', 'modified missions' etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-55533236950043127642009-04-22T06:37:00.000-07:002009-04-22T06:37:00.000-07:00Have they locked down Headtrax in anticipation of ...Have they locked down Headtrax in anticipation of Thursday? I would check but I'm no longer employed with Microsoft.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-42169354442913331262009-04-21T23:28:00.000-07:002009-04-21T23:28:00.000-07:00"It can. We don't want to be swarmed by a bunch of...<I>"It can. We don't want to be swarmed by a bunch of random, desperate (ex-)Microsofties with no relevant experience. You see, someone has to review the resumes, do phone screens, do interviews. It adds up, and unlike at Microsoft, someone has to actually do the work, too.<br /><br />So you will have to look for it yourself, it's all out there.<br /><br />Another reason is, I can't post a link here, because I just left Microsoft a little over two months ago myself and my non-solicitation agreement is still in effect."</I><BR><BR>I'm calling BS on this -- it just doesn't ring true, as posting here would not result in a desperate swarm of ex-MSFT any more than anywhere else, especially given the relatively low traffic of this site compared to anywhere else you'd post jobs. And given the fact that you're claiming to have a hard time finding people -- well, it just doesn't add up at all.<br /><br />So I'll say again, if you can't back up your claims of high-paying jobs with actual links, it's probably best to not try and use it as an argument. Nobody believes you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-82448515557756716692009-04-21T23:07:00.000-07:002009-04-21T23:07:00.000-07:00india lay off rumours
200 in MS IT India
1400 in ...india lay off rumours<br />200 in MS IT India<br />1400 in MS IDCAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-76992790160224342482009-04-21T22:49:00.000-07:002009-04-21T22:49:00.000-07:00as an ms1400, I would love to apply to your compan...as an ms1400, I would love to apply to your company. please don't screen or interview me, just need to make my 3 application quota thanks (like I care if it makes ms look bad).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-69594134149726844262009-04-21T22:47:00.000-07:002009-04-21T22:47:00.000-07:00We don't want to be swarmed by a bunch of random, ...<I>We don't want to be swarmed by a bunch of random, desperate (ex-)Microsofties with no relevant experience. You see, someone has to review the resumes, do phone screens, do interviews. It adds up, and unlike at Microsoft, someone has to actually do the work, too.</I>So you phone screen and interview random desperate people with no relevant experience? About a dozen per hire? How very revealing about the quality of company, I see your point now. <br /><br />Obviously <B>you're doing it wrong</B>. Some 'softies would probably improve the productivity; no that's not a compliment. I mean, they hired you....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-28735915255858547832009-04-21T22:35:00.000-07:002009-04-21T22:35:00.000-07:00any rumours about what products & departments ...any rumours about what products & departments are targetted for reorg, lay offs?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555958.post-11036832793270230672009-04-21T18:13:00.000-07:002009-04-21T18:13:00.000-07:00Right now I am looking out for a new job in MS - b...Right now I am looking out for a new job in MS - because of re-org. Even though I have not been given official notice, but I have been informed that I need to find a new job soon. My guess: second round of layoffs will happen in May and third round in June.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com