Microsoft lays off employees in security, experiences and devices, sales, and gaming — separate from performance cuts (www.businessinsider.com)
from inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world on 16 Jan 21:57
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Badeendje@lemmy.world on 16 Jan 22:24 next collapse

Making room for the new tranche of H1B coming in I guess.

inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world on 16 Jan 23:22 next collapse

Nah, executive bonuses and whaleholder dividends needed to be higher.

Badeendje@lemmy.world on 17 Jan 08:56 collapse

H1Bs are payed 40-60 cents on the dollar while you can work them harder and they can’t whine or get sent home… So…it does help the bottom line.

einlander@lemmy.world on 16 Jan 23:26 next collapse
FenrirIII@lemmy.world on 18 Jan 20:14 next collapse

I live near a big MS office. It’s definitely the H1Bs. The entire city is Indian now.

ZC3rr0r@lemmy.ca on 19 Jan 04:51 collapse

They also laid off folks with H1Bs. No, I suspect the real story here is that someone somewhere got convinced these jobs could be done even cheaper by AI, so they’re cutting folks to fund the datacenters basically.

MajorHavoc@programming.dev on 17 Jan 03:15 next collapse

It’s pretty important to me to not turn to a life of crime, but I appreciate everyone laying off their security teams, and putting all their most valuable data in one place, just in case I should change my mind…

I’m not going to change my mind, but it’s awfully considerate anyway.

passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world on 17 Jan 03:26 next collapse

I always knew cyber security was the next “learn to code”

Ephera@lemmy.ml on 17 Jan 06:10 next collapse

Fucking hell, man, with how many very publicly visible security problems they had last year, you’d think the stakeholders would be on board with doing security for a bit.

psmgx@lemmy.world on 17 Jan 19:20 collapse

Stock price is still way up compared so 2022, security issues notwithstanding. Why fight battles that won’t impact the bottom line?

EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world on 17 Jan 13:18 next collapse

In the last few years we used to do windows updates quarterly on our production servers as required by PCI DSS. In the last year though, we’ve had to do updates every single month due to critical CVEs needing to be patched. It’s becoming ludicrous actually, yet they’re cutting security folk.

Evotech@lemmy.world on 18 Jan 21:21 next collapse

Think we patch monthly regardless in and outside of PCI scoped environments. The issue recently is that customers want even more frequent patches, like within a few days of the CVEs

john89@lemmy.ca on 19 Jan 19:10 collapse

It’s yall’s fault for using windows.

Linux is literally available for free.

EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world on 19 Jan 22:15 collapse

We also use Linux

PushButton@lemmy.world on 18 Jan 20:47 collapse

Didn’t they just said, not long ago, that security would be their “top priority”.

Same old story; the hand doesn’t follow the mouth.