For two and a half years, Andrew Willis has worked as producer for id Software — the Richardson-based developer that makes popular video games Doom and Quake.
Now, he’s one of 1,600 Microsoft Xbox employees, 158 in Texas, who were laid off effective immediately last Monday in the first wave of a significant company restructuring that will eliminate 3,200 roles over the next fiscal year.
On Wednesday, he joined dozens of workers outside their Richardson office building to protest the layoffs at the “Save our Devs” rally, an event organized in several cities across the country and Canada by workers represented by the Communications Workers of America union…