A Microsoft employee shared a hiring post on LinkedIn for Xbox, which has been impacted by the company’s spree of massive layoffs of over 9000 employees. The irony of the job posting is the image attached to garner attention and sure, it is drawing a lot more than Microsoft expected.
The post reads, “The Xbox Graphics team is hiring folks with experience with device drivers, GPU performance, or related validation or engineering system experience.” The two positions based out of Redmond, Washington, are 1) Senior Software Engineer – Xbox Graphics and 2) Software Engineer 2 – Xbox Graphics. While the second job grants 50% work from home, the first one allows for 100% remote working.
Salary for a senior engineering post ranges between USD $119,800 and $234,700 per year, and a different base pay of USD $158,400 – $258,000 per year for the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area. For the other role, the base pay is USD $100,600 – $199,000 per year, while the same for the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area is USD $131,400 – $215,400 per year.
Reactions poured in on the hiring post. One user jibed, “How about you hire a graphic designer first???” while another user asked, “How can such mediocrity be found in the Xbox team???”
Reactions on X/Twitter weren’t any different. One netizen remarked, “All this for AI and it doesn’t even work half of the time,” while another quipped, “Good ol AI slop.” A third netizen wrote in jest, “Clearly a backend developer what is so hard about this?” A fourth user commented, “If Microsoft isn’t willing to pay someone to draw a cartoon of a woman using a computer, what are they hiring for?” Another user rued, “they laid off 9k people just to let mid ai art cook… this is late-stage capitalism in 4k.”
Now everything makes sense… pic.twitter.com/kQhiB7GJv9
— Cadreinth (@Cadreinth) July 14, 2025
they laid off 9k people just to let mid ai art cook… this is late stage capitalism in 4k
— Fernanda (@byfermamba) July 14, 2025
pic.twitter.com/W8C65aX22a
— The Parallax Corporation (@parallaxv1ew) July 14, 2025
All this for AI and it doesn’t even work half of the time
— Ryan Fanus (@RyanFanus) July 15, 2025
Good ol AI slop pic.twitter.com/eJpkqB5Fac
— DamSamage (@OtakuExile) July 15, 2025
Clearly a backend developer what is so hard about this? https://t.co/iO27uzpajJ
— Crosdale (@leecrosdale) July 14, 2025
If Microsoft isn’t willing to pay someone to draw a cartoon of a woman using a computer, what are they hiring for? https://t.co/rlwfTnqoIE
— Possum Reviews (@ReviewsPossum) July 14, 2025
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