[gt565k]

Because they’ve identified poor performers or products / teams that no longer fit the strategy or market and need to be shut down.

The answers on here are ridiculous.

Flip the question on its head - why did Microsoft hire like 30-40k people the last 3 years?

Because they were staffing for projects and teams. Some projects got shutdown so the teams / staff is no longer needed.

[refulgentis]

That’s sort of a head-in-the-sand answer, there weren’t these big projects that needed to be staffed up through mid 2022 and cut by end of Q1 2023. I’m sure we can come up with one, maybe? But certainly doesn’t describe what happened

[gt565k]

It’s all speculation and rumors unless you got insider knowledge of how the layoffs were organized specifically and the motivation behind them. How would you know what their strategy and goals were before and after layoffs?

Like I said this complaining of layoffs is ridiculous.

Most qualified people have no problem finding a job. I could get fired and have multiple offers within 2 weeks.

Get so good they can’t ignore you and network to make sure people know how good you are.

it’s really no different than this personal example:

I hired a lawn scaping guy after dealing with leaves and bushes by myself. The guy did a decent job the first time he serviced the yard. The subsequent times he showed up for 15 minutes trimmed the tiny grass area in front of my house and left, when he was supposed to do much more. I caught him on the ring camera and after 2-3 times of him coming by for just 15 mins to hit the yard with an edger and bill me $100 , I fired him.

Then I bought the tools and did my own yard work for a few months. I got tired of it and saw my neighbor had a hard working guy maintaining his yard. Got that guy hired and now I don’t do my own yard work anymore and the guy I hired is cheaper and more thorough when he does my landscaping.