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Don’t join Microsoft. CPO is setting us up for cuts (Blind)

• jjh78z23 (Intel): Nine levels is crazy. Five seems much more reasonable.

• krakenrand (Microsoft): The days of growth mindset are over. It’s sink or swim. We had a good run with azure but AI is a beast that 50 year old companies can’t deal with. We will become a cheap token factory and all the economic benefits will go to the application layers where we don’t play. Office is just a presentation layer. We have no models and we survived on enterprise ctos paying for office thos e days are over

Big Tech is F*cking itself Over (Blind)

• buddies (Google): Big tech will just acquire the small companies and lay them off

• xlyadf/ (Microsoft): And suddenly all CEOs and leaders are proud of doing IC work, vibe coding.. dude, you are the CEO you are supposed to lead, shape strategy, grow the company. What is wrong with them all? Did they just suddenly forget how to manage a business or were they always like this but getting exposed now since free money era is over

Samsung workers threaten strike, demand share of $38 billion AI memory windfall (r/technology)

• Intrepid-Film-8197: Lmfao. If it were an American company they’d simply fire all the engineers, use the money to enrich the CEO’s, and hire back 25% of the workforce citing Ai as making up the difference.

• MeatPopsicle28: I hope they are successful. More of us should start taking a stand against these greedy corporations who will happily give the CEO and shareholders a windfall and but never anything for the workers.

Hired above my level and am stressed and scared (r/ExperiencedDevs)

• disasteruss: You already got past the hardest part: getting the job. They obviously didn’t think you would be out of your depth. Just put in the work to fill in any gaps as you notice them and you’ll be fine. They almost certainly expect a learning curve as you onboard.

• i_am_exception: How do you accidentally get an L6 at a FAANG? lol. Regardless, It’s their decision and if they are trusting in you to do the job, they must’ve saw something. Just quickly work to gain said skills. Even if you end up getting laid off, there are ways to gracefully move on. Not every job is built for everyone. Don’t stress it.

‘Hyperscale’ data center project in Utah — expected to generate and consume more power than entire state — nears final approval (r/technology)

• IcySheepherder6195: Good thing they have a ton of water in the great salt lake… what it’s empty well they get lots of snow…. What the snow pack has been historically low for multiple years…. They’re cooked if they build it

• cryyingboy: consume more power than the entire state. just read that again.