{"id":1030868,"date":"2026-08-24T11:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T05:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030868"},"modified":"2026-08-24T11:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T05:37:20","slug":"microsoft-manager-tells-techie-hes-relatively-young-with-no-major-responsibilities-yet-before-firing-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/24\/microsoft-manager-tells-techie-hes-relatively-young-with-no-major-responsibilities-yet-before-firing-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft manager tells techie he&#8217;s \u2018relatively young\u2019 with no \u2018major responsibilities yet\u2019 before firing him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Hyderabad-based software engineer at Microsoft has shared his experience of being laid off, claiming that his manager described him as \u201crelatively young\u201d and assumed he did not have \u201cmajor responsibilities yet\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The engineer, who said he has around three years of experience, shared his account on Reddit in a post titled, \u201cGot laid off from Microsoft yesterday with 3 YOE &#8211; Need guidance\u201d. He said most of his team was affected in the latest round of layoffs and that he was among those let go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Hyderabad-based software engineer at Microsoft has shared his experience of being laid off, claiming that his manager described him as \u201crelatively young\u201d and assumed he did not have \u201cmajor responsibilities yet\u201d. The engineer, who said he has around three years of experience, shared his account on Reddit in a post titled, \u201cGot laid off from Microsoft yesterday with 3 YOE &#8211; Need guidance\u201d. He said most of his team was affected in the latest round of layoffs and that he was among those let go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030869,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030868\/revisions\/1030869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}