Imagine having to compete with 60k former Microsoft employees?
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They will layoff the required number if the folks voluntarily don’t accept. It might not be 60k but there will be a layoff if the minimum number don’t leave voluntarily!
I was RIFd 2 years ago. This is the reality everywhere. Landed a new role in 2025, got laid off yet again. Contract roles (if you can find one) that were paying $65/hr are now paying $35 because they have 3K applicants. Get used to the new paradigm; this is the result/combination of bad Covid/RTO math and AI hysteria. It will get much worse before it gets better.
Don't worry, AI slop coding will be over soon and we'll all realize that "job losses due to AI" are just labor market manipulation.
@a4 Only the Americans. No one holding an H1B visa can accept it. Microsoft is effectively eliminating all US citizens. Another Indian Only AI Revolution.
@a4 obviously, but even if just 1 in 5 do take it, that's still 12k more developers that presumably can get another job, so are reasonably skilled, that you are going to be competing with in the job market.
60k Microsoft employees are not going to take the early retirement. It was offered to 60k employees, but it will be a small percentage that will accept it.