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Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive
(windowsreport.com)
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I mean, do those headcount numbers count contractors?
V dashes? A dashes? Etc?
The majority of MSFT's workforce has been temp contractors for a very long time, and they do everything they can to have as few actual employees as possible.
If your source is saying the average tenure is 5.3 years, no, no it is not counting contractors.
Beyond that, unless you have an actual source for the culture shift beyond 'you think so', I'm going with no, everything I've described has gotten worse.
That's why I've, for years, been able to predict moves that MSFT would likely make, that people at the time think are ludicrous or incredibly pessimistic, worst case scenarios... and then they happen.
As an example, I was saying MSFT probably just set Xbox with impossibly unrealistic profit targets for the Xbox/Gaming division, to more or less intentionally downsize it and then basically kill it off, over time, while acting like that's not what they were doing... I said that a good deal of time before the news broke, that is exactly what happened.
They are a gormless faceless machine that is unimaginably high on their own supply.
Given the amount of outright caste based racism I saw amongst Indian actual employees vs Indian contractors when I was there, where HR told.me that actually 'that's just their culture' and that I was being racist for pointing out abusive managers literally screaming at their lower caste underlings, whom they had by their H1-B balls...
....yeah, I'm willing to bet it is now even worse.
I've also worked at other large corps, a place or two in fairly high responsibilty positions.
I've met a fair deal of the Seattle/Bellevue/Redmond upper management of various texh and other firms, and the thing they all have in common is an unimaginably inflated ego, elitist attitude, that propogates downward via basically an essentially religious level of respect for people in higher positions... its just expected to be shown by anyone under them.
They really are like the corpos from Cyberpunk 77, they just don't have the nakedly open bloodlust most of those corpos do.
I worked at the Comcast Center back when Comcast was building a new skyscraper two blocks away. The reason for this new building was that the CC had become jam-packed with InfoSys contractors, like literally five or six developers jammed into one-person offices, floor after floor after floor. The executives -- a majority of whom were Indian-American -- wanted to see a lot fewer Indians around their headquarters (and they talked about this openly) so they built an entire new building to house them.
I linked the source for my information, feel free to dig into it for more detail.
I literally said I didn't know whether there had been a culture shift. Reread the last line of my comment. All I'm doing here is pointing out that your own view on the subject is likely very outdated at this point. There's been enormous employee turnover, including right to the top CEO position, and other major companies have merged into Microsoft in the interim.
Based on?
I'm not doubting your previous experience. I'm just pointing out that it was a long time ago and a lot has happened since then, so I'd like to hear some more recent evidence.