Black day for thousands of Microsoft employees: marketers and testers are no longer needed

Microsoft is planning the biggest round of cuts in the last five years: the software maker hopes to reduce and optimize its unit Nokia Oyj. This agency Bloomberg said the person holding the information about the company's plans. CEO of Satya Nadella said in an interview last week that he is preparing a large-scale changes to Microsoft. Probably reduction will be made in the marketing department and in areas overlapping in functionality to those dealt with Nokia.

Restructuring
which could be announced as early as
This week, it may be the most
Global in the history of Microsoft,
and the scale of job cuts
may exceed those 5800 that Corporation
He donated in 2009.

Nadella,
who took office in February, he said
in an interview that the corporation must be
become more focused and effective.
Now he says that the mission of the company
slightly different: more emphasis will be
It made for mobile devices, cloud
computing and software for which is now
Bole are becoming popular. AND
Consumers and companies are now all
less use computers to
checking email, surfing the
Internet and data storage. therefore
the corporation must increasingly effective
keep track of time.

Nadella,
Microsoft veteran who
joined the firm in 1992, received the
CEO to
to produce the most favorable
change. former head
corporation "make a slip" on the fact that
I could not put any hits products
for smartphones and tablets for Apple
Corp., Samsung Electronics and other technology
competitors.

Representative
Microsoft office in
Washington declined to comment.
Information sources Agencies
Bloomberg said that the cuts
affect individual marketing departments
departments. For example, the global
Xboh team has all the
chances to get hit.

AT
2012 were Microsoft
produced small reductions:
several hundred jobs in sales
advertising and marketing. Much more
a major restructuring was
held at the beginning of the crisis of 2009:
then lost work time 5800 people
(It was 5% corporate workforce).
Before
recently, the company had
services 127104 employees, after
as the order of 30 000 employees joined
to its staff as a result of the September
buying a business for the production of mobile
Nokia phones. Already then
software maker has promised to reduce its
costs of $ 600 million for
18 mesyatsev.Veroyatno,
implementation of this commitment and will
the driving force of future reductions
especially in areas where the cross
functionals of these companies. another type
reductions can be made in
within the technical reorganization
processes, said informed
sources.

traditionally,
Technical command group included
Program Manager, developers and
testers. Nadella confident that with the advent of
New software development methodologies
software will often have more
sense checks and fixes
by the same developer - in this case,
there is no sense to keep the team
testers. Accordingly, the reduction
can relate to this group of employees.

It should be reminded,
all this - one of those "forty tail
brought ", and preferred sources
to remain anonymous - information
positioned as not public. himself
Nadella said in an interview yesterday,
that all the details with regards to the reorganization
the company will be announced to them on July 22 in
the announcement of the income statement
company.