硅谷的MSR周五要关门了

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-to-close-microsoft-research-lab-in-silicon-valley-7000033838/

On September 18, Microsoft officials acknowledged the company would be cutting 2,100 jobs across the company worldwide as part of the previously announced layoffs of 18,000 disclosed in July 2014. Of today's cuts, 747 are in the Washington state area, and 160 total in California, a Microsoft spokesperson said.

Microsoft Research's Silicon Valley outpost, located in Mountain View, Calif., was founded in 2001 and currently employs close to 50, a company spokesperson said. The MSR Silicon Valley lab is primarily focused on distributed computing research, including "privacy, security, protocols, fault-tolerance, large-scale systems, concurrency, computer architecture, Internet search and services, and related theory," according to the web page for the lab.

A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed the Silicon Valley research lab is closing this Friday, and noted that an undisclosed number of those researchers will be offered jobs at other Microsoft Research labs.

The spokesperson characterized the closing as a "consolidation of the west coast labs."

He noted that Microsoft still has 2,500 employees working for the company in the Silicon Valley area including individuals working on Skype, Yammer, Bing, Outlook.com and Xbox. He said the cuts today do not mean Microsoft is backing away from its research commitments or necessarily closing any of the research projects that are run out of the Silicon Valley lab.

加州一共要裁160个人的话，那除了MSR<50个，还有别的team的吧。不过现在裁时机不错，起码去年的bonus都到账了。




补充内容 (2014-9-21 18:45):
source says "an undisclosed number" of those researchers who have been offered jobs at other MSR is 6, including Lamport.

bonus要这么久才到账啊？。。

cxtcxt 发表于 2014-9-18 12:21
bonus要这么久才到账啊？。。

MS的annual performance review是5月还是6月左右评，8月中下出结果，然后9月中那个paycheck到帐。

公司还有那么点良心，刚刚的卡着给了奖金
不过不知道没有vest的股票怎么搞
上次是说高级职员的立刻全部vest

不是说主要cut 诺基亚的。本部是例行的还是和新ceo有关系？

微软layoff这也要不小一笔钱吧。外行的一点疑问~

费解， lamport才拿了图灵奖。

内部消息说MSR SV里只有包括Lamport在内的6个人没有被雷。