Microsoft has 80 billion dollars in cash. But ultimately, the employees are not mad atlayoffs,they are mad at the protracted layoffs. The way the layoff is done makes it
rather clear:
A. Nadella wants employees (Americans) to infight and stab each other
B. Nadella wants the best employees (Americans) to go away
C. Nadella wants the survivors (Americans) to be weakened.
Which begs the question: why?
I'll answer why: Nadella is doing the classic practice of "software corp raider"
perfected by elite Indian upper managements throughout Silicon Valley.
Target are companies like:
A. Cisco, Qualcomm, VMWare, Intel, Motorola, Nokia, Sun, Adobe
B. IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, LinkedIn,Amazon
C. Facebook, Google, Twitter, Apple
The tactics are the same everywhere:
1. Layoff thousands of American engineers (sometimes by smal cuts),
2. Nearly concurrent hiring Indian new grads by thousands, or outsource
to Indian contracting companies.
End Result A. tier companies are nearly completely Indianized, or
defunct: ~70% Indian engineers
B tier companies are Indianized: ~30-60% Indian engineers
C tier companies are generally newer and last refuge of
American nerds: