More Microsoft-Red Hat Cross-Pollination as the Company Loses a Managing Director
The other day we mentioned how many managers and executives were leaving Microsoft. We also named some of them. They generally know what's coming (not only what has happened this year; about 12 waves of mass layoffs since January!) and they don't wish to be part of it. They move on. The general atmosphere at Microsoft was explained some hours ago as follows:
Yep, culture has taken a turn for the worse. They talk about one year, one reward and how we're not ranked against others. That is total bullscheisse. If you give someone better than 100 rewards, you have to hit someone else to find the money to do that. It's a zero sum game. It's stacked ranking without calling it stacked ranking. Doing your day job no longer gets you to 100% rewards, the best you can hope for is 80%. It's now more important to do things OTHER than your day job if you want to get to 100% and do even more than that if you want to get over 100%. This has made MSFT as cutthroat internally as other owner companies.If you're relatively happy where you are, don't join MSFT. It's dang near lord of the flies here.
Earlier this month we showed comments about IBM appointing Microsoft people to gut Red Hat. It's therefore worth noting that Lee Hui Li has left Microsoft and "Microsoft appoints new managing director for Singapore" (the positive spin). It says "Wee Luen has over 20 years of experience in enterprise tech, including senior roles at Red Hat..."
It explains that "Wee Luen succeeds Lee Hui Li, who previously led Microsoft’s Singapore operations."
So some people move from Microsoft to Red Hat and some do the opposite. That is not a good thing. █