That's not good. 343 needs a shakeup but they don't need lower level people fired. Also why did no other MS gaming studios get affected?Supposedly 343 had 750 employees. I do wonder if that number might be the result of a typo of 450 which was the 2016 number. But people seem pretty adamant they had 750 in 2021 including Jschrier.
Which feels like a lot for a studio that seems to do quite a bit of outsourcing with partners.
But MS's largest studios I think are basically 343, Mojang, Bethesda Game Studios, and I would have to imagine Zenimax online is huge too. The last number was 250 and that is 11 years old.
Mojang and Zenimax Online must be doing okay.