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by ChrisArchitect 25 days ago
Source: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/06/the-latest-in-ou...
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More discussion on the Xbox section: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804993
Thanks, that link is a lot better
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/06/resetting-xbox/

This one also has a lot more concrete information on what they are doing, like reducing their layers of management from up to 14 to a maximum of 3-5.

I find it very that a big company ever gets this deep in layers of indirection, but at least they have the guts to restructure. The government rarely does.
It seems silly to “restructure” and then “return to growth” though.

Like, the restructuring is mainly an exercise of managing layers of pointers. Why don’t they ever move around the pointers and keep the people? Save the garbage cleaner process till the very end.

Presumably people who cleared these interview processes are amongst the best and could easily re-train to fit different roles.