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?
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?
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..
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.