Current employees point to layoffs and a salary freeze this year at Microsoft and wonder why it's promising to match the pay of OpenAI staff.

Some Microsoft employees fume over the company’s open offer to hire hundreds of OpenAI staff::Current employees point to layoffs and a salary freeze this year at Microsoft and wonder why it’s promising to match the pay of OpenAI staff.

  • AnonStoleMyPants@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    201·
    11 months ago

    I mean, I get why people would not like this but it is a value proposition. They think a random OpenAI employee is much more valuable than a some Microsoft employees. Hence, they’d rather boot specific Microsoft employees and hire OpenAI people instead.

    • Touching_Grass@lemmy.worldEnglish
      122·
      11 months ago

      I mean articles like this are kind of bullshit propaganda anyways. Microsoft is such a big company that there is going to be a huge range of opinions. The author is just selecting one opinion for their own reasons

    • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      11 months ago

      Yep plain and simple. Everyone’s catching up to OpenAI and this is hardly any secret. MSFT team should know that they are second-stringers, but I’m sure they’ve been thinking much more of themselves.

    • _s10e@feddit.deEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      The OpenAI people built ChatGPT, the Microsoft folks worked on Clippy.