| ▲ | HumblyTossed 2 hours ago |
| Take it or wait for the lay offs. Also, good grief, flooding the market with thousands more people. 2027 is going to be wild. Stock up on beans and rice, folks. |
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| ▲ | tombert 33 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| Tinfoil hat thoroughly fixed upon my head, but a part of me kind of thinks that this might have been a long-game from big tech in the same vein as Grapes of Wrath. Software engineers make a lot of money, at least historically because of supply/demand mechanics. By suddenly and continuously flooding the market with lots and lots of software engineers, you effectively can bring down wages, since if people are unemployed long enough they're likely to take a lower salary. |
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| ▲ | HumblyTossed 25 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | They (the industry) have always wanted to find a way to do this. Tools like Rational Rose and Visual Basic were touted as being able to do this. Sending work overseas is another way. AI is just the next in line. I don't know what the overall answer is, but I would say that if you have high demand skills, you can still earn a living. | |
| ▲ | jayd16 16 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Only works if employees can't found something new. Which might be the case right now. Really, it feels like we're in a quiet depression. | | |
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| ▲ | hi41 34 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Why is MS doing this after the latest troubles with VP Vance regarding layoffs? |
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| ▲ | mrafcho002 8 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Seems like a good way to avoid the bad PR. This offer will be disproportionately taken by citizens and avoided by visa workers. Can’t claim MS is firing citizens and replacing them with H1Bs, if they are leaving voluntarily. | |
| ▲ | HumblyTossed 27 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | I'm not aware of this. But if I were to speculate, maybe they feel some freedom because they thing the midterms will be a change. |
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