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Resetting Xbox 16 days ago

I’ve made the difficult decision to reduce our team by approximately 3,200 ... This will include approximately 1,600 role eliminations today

we are establishing a Chief Operating Officer with end-to-end P&L responsibility across content, hardware, platform, and services. Helen Chiang has been promoted to this role and will report directly to me

Seems tone deaf to do both of these messages at the same time.

"crush your daily standup" - I am not sure that will be appealing to audiences outside America (assuming the target is dev teams worthwhile).

If I knew the first few mins of a standup were going to be a round table like "what's your all time fav book?", I would just join late.

The worst tech team you've ever seen and yet they are generating 20 million a year? I think you should give them the respect they deserve and understand the limitations they have been under.

My thoughts:

* Get the code in source control straight away

* Get the infrastructure stable and up to date if it's not

* Get CI pipelines set up. As part of this, make sure the code is running through a static analyser. This will give you a backlog of things to work on.

* Organize an external penetration test to be carried out

* Investigate updating and/or consolidating the software libraries used (Jquery etc)

* Choose a page/feature to update on its own. Bring it up to date.

At this point, you should be in a much better state and you will have learned a lot.

I'll need to thread lightly before I get banned by Dang for not loving the british queen!

If we observed monkeys and saw that one was showered with gifts and jewellery their whole lives because they were offspring of two other particular monkeys.. we would chuckle at that. Not for being the strongest, tallest, biggest, smartest or best at something. Just for existing.

Here's my thoughts:

Companies think they will see a higher turnover when people are WFH. This is because the job is just a job - it's no longer making friends at the office or having a personal space or routine. In my job, some people have worked together for 15 years. That makes it hard to leave because you're not just leaving the day-to-day work but all the relationships that have grown over the years.

Getting new joiners up to speed takes more effort when WFH and companies think these people won't integrate as well. And if they don't integrate they will more likely leave for another job. GOTO first paragraph.