Microsoft’s chief product officer has a message for coders, after company laid off over 2,000 software engineers

Microsoft’s chief product officer is pushing back against claims that coding careers are obsolete, even as the tech giant eliminated 6,000 positions last week with software engineers bearing the brunt of the cuts.

Aparna Chennapragada, Microsoft’s CPO of experiences and devices, said she “fundamentally disagrees” with the notion that people shouldn’t study computer science, comments that take on new significance following the company’s second-largest layoff in its history.