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They laid off KC Lemson! https://mobile.twitter.com/kclemson/status/15821754192685015... She invented Ninja Cat! She created the Bedlam card game, and she's been there long enough to remember the actual Bedlam incident. https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/inside-bedlam-a-car...

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she was adding no value to the product. (My personal opinion is that) she wasn’t laid off sooner because she’s married to D Lemson who was friends with Terry Myerson. She used to try to stay relevant by sending these long “status emails” to the entire org with no particular goal.

I don’t have any insight except I follow her on Twitter and a lot of names I recognise are saying very different things from you, like for example Larry Osterman. Maybe you know better.

Is she an engineer? What kind of contributions had she been making recently? If she’s been there 20 years I imagine her paycheque is enormous, perhaps she just wasn’t worth it anymore. Legacy product people being laid off is a much different signal to me than a company letting go young, versatile engineers.

> If she’s been there 20 years I imagine her paycheque is enormous

On the contrary, she must be extremely cheap. I don't know the details of compensation at Microsoft, but if it's like the other FAANGs (or really any other company), new hires are paid A LOT more than tenured employees.

Ageism in tech...

Didn't expect the last bit (Bedlam cards). These were fun.

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