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Some Microsoft employees fume over the company's open offer to hire hundreds of OpenAI staff (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Some Microsoft employees fume over the company's open offer to hire hundreds of OpenAI staff::Current employees point to layoffs and a salary freeze this year at Microsoft and wonder why it's promising to match the pay of OpenAI staff.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I worked for Microsoft for a long time, and by far my least-favorite part about it was the way politics from on high turned hard work into a cruel joke- oh, you did awesome work this year, but the c-suite spent all the money so you can't get the bonus or level promotion I want to give you and oh here's this news:

  • they're laying 18,000 of you off

  • while hiring H-1b contractors

  • and buying back shares

  • and killing off in-house projects because we bought a competitor

Yeah if you wonder why MS employees have opinions about stuff like this, it's because it's genuinely unpleasant to realize that your career depends on not getting fucked by people with every incentive to fuck it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I've never really understood why anyone would want to work there, unless it's really about selling your soul for the pay. They have been known to be a terrible employer from at least the early 1990s, where people famously had cots in their offices and would only go home a couple times a month before releases.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For the money. From 1986 to 2003, there were 9 stock splits and MS handed out stock options to almost all employees. Many employees who started there in the early 90s are now multimillionaires.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

I doubt that it’s worth the loss of your soul for most people, but monkey want shiny is enough for many.

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