Gonna get some hate, but microsoft in no way, shape or form needs that many coders. We're talking about tens of thousands of people that are supposedly producing code every day. What for? Windows is pretty much over, a team of 100 people could easily be more than enough to maintain it. Office would need maybe 20 programmer, Copilot is junk, what do the other 29,800 programmers do?
but jeets dont produce anything useful, and if they do manage to produce anything, someone else competent will have to come back behind them to fix their "work"
Yeah, instead of produce they just ruin whatever they're in charge of. Even if it works perfectly fine and all they need to do is maintain it... They'll ruin it.
Gonna get some hate, but microsoft in no way, shape or form needs that many coders. We're talking about tens of thousands of people that are supposedly producing code every day. What for? Windows is pretty much over, a team of 100 people could easily be more than enough to maintain it. Office would need maybe 20 programmer, Copilot is junk, what do the other 29,800 programmers do?
They provide izzat to their superiors.
Patching yesterday's security flaw while creating tomorrow's security flaw.
Also, I imagine Azure is a behemoth.
People use Azure?
Azure exists so that the FTC doesn't have to do anti-trust action against AWS.
I don't know what 30,000 programmers are to do, but you're vastly underestimating how much manpower is required to run a company that large.
If they could get away with hiring such low numbers for something, they would..
Im talking purely programmers, not the other departments.
Elon did it - remember when Elon took over it was BLOATED with tons of unnecessary staff?
Microsoft could afford to cut a significant chunk of its offshore workforce.
but jeets dont produce anything useful, and if they do manage to produce anything, someone else competent will have to come back behind them to fix their "work"
Yeah, instead of produce they just ruin whatever they're in charge of. Even if it works perfectly fine and all they need to do is maintain it... They'll ruin it.
Developping more features that are always-online spyware.
Windows Recall = Microsoft is spying absolutely everything you do.
they are jeets, they dont do anything productive