Karina Chow

Screw the rules, I have green hair | 🇩🇪🇺🇸 SF Bay native | tech × design × art × psych | ex-eng @Patreon, @Microsoft, @honor | @ITP_NYU @cmuhcii educated

[Karina Chow @karomancer]

Hello world! 👋

I'm Karina and I'm a creative technologist, software developer, and designer. I currently work as a new media exhibit technician for the Exploratorium in SF and I also freelance for startups under my own small agency (appropriately called KACHOW! LLC 🗯️ (1/7)

[Karina Chow @karomancer]

@SomaKazima2 Lol these guys are awesome. Seems like a super fun group of friends. What a great way to kill time at the airport 🤣

[Ichigo Niggasake @SomaKazima2]

What in the world LMFAOOOOOOOO

[Karina Chow @karomancer]

@AaronKempf3 @Urpos012 Personally I think it is accurate. They have huge money makers that carry the rest.

Ten billion in quarterly revenue could be even more if they leaned up!

[Karina Chow @karomancer]

As an ex Microsoft employee, I know at least 6 people taking this offer.

And another 2 who are don't want to but are terrified what will happen to them in the following year if they don't.

[LayoffHedge @LayoffAI]

NEARLY 1 OUT OF 3 (60,000 EMPLOYEES) AT MICROSOFT BEING OFFERED VOLUNTARY TERMINATION

Emails should be going out any minute to those receiving the offer.

Absolutely insane.

[Karina Chow @karomancer]

Wonder how much crazier this AI boom is going to get in SF before it busts...

https://t.co/6Cy4rnFHp8

[Karina Chow @karomancer]

Wait no I like how I applied for a job once and was told I wouldn't be considered because I didn't have a strong enough portfolio.

Two years later a recruiter emailed me back, seemingly forgetting that I applied two years prior, and asked if I had heard of them.

I was a power user of their product, so in reply to that I forwarded the last exchange I had then a bunch of screenshots of bugs that I see in the product every day and just said "yes I've heard of you".

Got hired that time lol

[Karina Chow @karomancer]

@HackingBaseball I dunno hard to pick favorites honestly! Maybe the Xbox one

[Karina Chow @karomancer]

@JamesWelbes I believe it's a standard 3ish month severance with 6 months of health insurance.

They have over a month to decide

[CG @cgtwts]

“who should we lay off first”

CEOs:

[Karina Chow @karomancer]

@isaacrlevin @CoffeeAndOSS Sure!

[Karina Chow @karomancer]

@Vinlandererik Owning a home and having reasonably employable skills are big assumptions there

[Karina Chow @karomancer]

@Duodecahedron12 It's such a huge corporation. I have friends on teams that are super happy. My team on the other hand was miserable and most of us left.

Then I know some people who don't really care and are just holding on for dear life for all those benefits

[Karina Chow @karomancer]

@BackT0Square0ne Well..yes and no.

There's also a chance that they don't take it and get fired later or laid off with worse terms.

[Karina Chow @karomancer]

@jag_99 Right it might have died spiritually... But many people working on those teams were still there in Microsoft or shuffled into other teams.

This is part of the bloat I think Microsoft is interested in addressing.