Microsoft drew a profit of $27.2 billion in the last quarter of FY25, driven by demand for the cloud and AI. Overall, it recorded profits of over a hundred billion dollars in the entire fiscal year.

Microsoft drew a profit of $27.2 billion in the last quarter of FY25, driven by demand for the cloud and AI. Overall, it recorded profits of over a hundred billion dollars in the entire fiscal year.

  • BaroqueInMind@piefed.socialEnglish
    18·
    1 day ago

    How would one working at said company who wants to work NOT get laid off? Is it simply luck, or does one need to manually suck every dick that exists in the company to remain an employee? Like, what’s the point of ever doing a competent job if they plan to cut you anyways?

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      Large companies like Microsoft tend to have very high competition. The trade off is that if you can do well the pay is going to be very well.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        9·
        21 hours ago

        No, no.

        The vast, vast majority of MSFT ‘employees’ are contractors, V dashes, A dashes, etc, who functionally keep working different MSFT contracts over and over again, but get paid far less than actual salaried, proper employees with stock options.

        MSFT will string along these contractors along with what you are saying ‘do well and we’ll hire you and pay the big bucks’, and in reality this basically never happens.

        This institutional, pathological reliance on contractors over traditional employees is a huge reason why MSFT’s work culture is so toxic, why MSFT’s management is so incompetent, and why their products seems more and more like a bunch layers of inefficient and buggy spaghetti code worked on by hundreds of random people with no core, consistent design principles.

        Because they are.

        Anyway, you only get hired as an actual proper MSFT via grandfathering or nepotism, actual competency only qualifies you to be a contractor.