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Mnementh said:

crissindahouse said:

I can just repeat myself that there are much better companies like Valve which can shit money (around 10 billion revenue) and still never even started to employ people and always worked with the bare minimum so that they also can't throw them out after some years lol. I guess like $30m of revenue per employee is just not enough to justify some investments and if you never give someone the opportunity to start a career in your company you can also never hurt that person with a layoff ! 

And gamers still love Valve even if everyone playing their few games hates that Valve gives a shit about their own games because Gaben only cares about taking billions from gamers for buying stuff like Counter Strike weapon cases.

Who cares about millions of cheaters and even support for the games itself if you can squeeze every penny out of your userbase with some keys and cases! The Steam marketplace is even better than the stock market after all! A win win for everyone.

PRAISE LORD GABEN!

This feels like a rant long coming with some built up emotions about Valve.

But it has little to nothing to do with Microsoft laying off people now. Microsoft deserves to be slammed for these layoffs.

We could argue if not going on a hiring spree if your current employees are enough to carry the business is a bad or a good thing. I would gravitate towards good. And Valve is not the only company keeping hires to a minimum and growth to a more organic level. Nintendo does this as well, even throughout the pandemic as every game company was hiring like crazy they still kept it at a small level (albeit they were growing). Which results in a better integrated team and lesser need for layoffs.

This is where I am not really of the agreement that MS deserves to be slammed for the layoffs, at least not yet. This is not because I believe MS is some benevolent corporation, far from it.  

Usually, MS is the company that waits for things to pan out, come in late, purchase their way in, then try to use their money to compete from there.  Rarely you ever see MS trying to be the forerunner.  Now MS is pushing all engines to be the forerunner on AI and that is a shift.  Is it because being late to the party could mean you do not get to the party at all, could be.  Everyone from Google, Apple and all the big players are all pushing out AI solutions everyday.  AI tools are becoming better and better every day just from my own study on the topic and the question still comes up, if you are not using it, will you be the company getting beat by it.

You know time to market or what a lot of the businesspeople love to use is ROI(Return on Investment), is a big thing in business.  My previous employer, that was the type of software we made.  Software that cut out the middleman.  Software that automated a lot of business processes where it took a team of people to do and cut it down to just a few.  It wasn't called AI or anything so grand, but it is software that pretty much worked in the same type of frame work.  One thing I know from that job is that CEO/CTOs are always looking at that ROI and deciding on how to make their business respond faster at all cost.  All AI tools are is productivity tools and when productivity tools become the norm in an organization, jobs go away.  I have seen this first hand but what exactly as a corporation do you do.  You cannot ignore it because if your competitors are using it and their time to market is faster than yours, you lose.  I have seen this also first hand with 2 different corporations.  One was using our software, time to market 2 days, another took a month that bought our software to compete.