Signs of Trouble: Microsoft Job Openings for Jobs That Do Not Exist!
Older/relevant: Why Government Data on "Job Openings" is Typically a Lie (Perpetrated in Part by Corporations)
Companies always love and generally try/like to portray themselves as healthy, stable etc. It's important for client retention and for staff retention. One means for accomplishing that is to constantly advertise job openings, even when none exist, the ads are years old (in Sirius Open Source 5+ years out of date), or when "openings" (gaps, vacuum) are reserved for insiders, hence any interviews are just posturing (or, put another way, there's no prospect of ever getting an interview, it's just time-wasting, especially for applicants).
Microsoft is about to lay off a lot of people (it's only a question of how many) and pro-Microsoft fools in pro-Microsoft sites try to say because there's no WARN notice, then it cannot be happening. "Microsoft doesn't do that," one person explained. "They announce the layoff, file the warn notice and keep you on payroll for 60 days to comply with the warning. So everything happens same day."
It's not just Microsoft. That's how all companies do it. That same site (sponsored and censored by Microsoft) has this post from 6 days ago:
Miscommunication? Keeping up appearances? Just "keeping the candidate warm"? Perhaps job opening/s published months before the decision to cull tens of thousands of workers as debt soared 8.2 billion in the past half a year alone?
Microsoft is in trouble and even many insiders recognise it. Watch the comments in this page.
Quoting from the prior page, we have: "You don’t wanna work for Microsoft. I was there for three years and all they do is gaslight you take advantage of you. Promise you the world and lay you off the next week. One person I know got promoted to a management position and two weeks later was laid off. Another person was on her vacation when they sent her an email that laid her off out of the blue. You dodged a huge bullet."
Another says: "I just resigned from Microsoft. My role was senior electrical engineer in Azure. You dodged a bullet. If it were 5 years ago, I would’ve said, stick it out but at this point, you’re better off elsewhere."
Microsoft does not count such resignations as layoffs. Azure has had mass layoffs every year since 2020 (at least, maybe even earlier).
The last comment says: "I had a similar thing happen in the US. All the way to verbal offer and they canceled or rather paused the position. I was told I was placed as “ready for hire” and if the position reopens in 6 months they can just proceed with an offer. Over 6 months and I’d have to have at least a more simplified interview process."
"Same situation for me," it says at the very bottom. █