[pastor_bob]

>"We did not expect to share this important update with you all in the midst of such challenging times, but in the spirit of creating clarity, Tomer and I wanted to share some news regarding changes we are making to our orgs....Tomer and I made these decisions with deep consideration - Mohak & Tomer"

Is it normal for a CEO like Satya Nadella not to write this email? Kind of off-putting that MSFT is keeping its hands clean here. Mohak and Tomer aren't making this decision.

[paxys]

Communication should be sent out by whoever made the decision and was in control of the outcome. LinkedIn operates almost completely independently from Microsoft, so it is appropriate for their leadership to be the ones taking the hit.

[pastor_bob]

Why not Ryan Roslansky then. Surely he's the one that made the call if anyone at linkedin

[MisterPea]

MSFT generally has a hands off approach to acquisitions if the company delivers on financial metrics set by MSFT.

Conversation probably started by Satya asking the LinkedIn CEO to just reduce X$ expenses and the LinkedIn leadership made these specific changes.

[salynchnew]

LinkedIn negotiated its own independent P&L from Microsoft. If anything, it's a little weird that it didn't come from Ryan, but it seems like they likely announced layoffs a while back... and Product & Eng waited a while to actually make the cuts.